Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
can philosophy become more scientific without confusing logical certainty with empirical truth?

I would not go near AI to help me with philosophy, beyond a Google search result.  But if people do want to use it, I can see uses for it – checking reasoning, for example.

I think there should be two tasks, done by…[Read more]

Jake:

I’ll check the video after work, assuming there’s no actual World’s Most Dangerous Game cooking show. Right now, I’m in a NSFW spot.

Fellow Unbelievers:

Well, The Orange Emperor and his blushing blindered advisers sure didn’t think about this possibility!🙄:

Iran issues chilling threat to cut ‘all the world’s internet’
World War 3 tensions are ramping up to alarming levels.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2258640/iran-cut-worlds-internet-strait-of-hormuz

Nor did Elon…[Read more]

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Three members of Muslim Brotherhood are breaking bread and regaling each other with tales of their recent exploits.

Achmed says “Yeah so i heard how you two were part of the gang rape of the infidel’s wife and the slaughter of the infidel. And you took his two daughters as slaves. What i want to know is whether you ate the…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

One of the homes of The Enlightenment is still in flames and getting worse.

Analysis-France’s unrest lays bare ‘slow agony’ of Macron’s twilight months
By Michel Rose
Mon, October 19, 2026 at 9:25 AM EDT
4 min read
Add Yahoo as a preferred…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
can philosophy become more scientific without confusing logical certainty with empirical truth?

That’s an interesting way of looking at it.  Michael Tomasello, for example, is someone who does a lot of philosophy referring to a lot of experimental results.  That’s why I trust his ideas enough to give them the time o…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

I just finished watching Yuval Noah Harari. Whether we are all collectively demented or becoming that way from AI, Mr. Harari is one of the few who are the least troubled by our collective dementia.

Basically, he looks at AI the way Ben Franklin looked at the Montgolfier Brothers hot-air balloon. While others who beheld the…[Read more]

Reg:

AI could lead to the collective dementia of humankind, says Yuval Noah Harari.”

Is he saying we’re not collectively demented now? This I’ll have to watch tonight!

Reg:

The illiteracy crisis has a religion problem

All very true, but most children in the U.S. still attend State schools, so the crises of illiteracy, a literacy, illnumeracy, anumeracy, and lack of critical thinking skills rest with the State as well as with Religion and the merging of both.

Our Teacher’s Unions the National Education…[Read more]

Have a great week! The first video Bad Faith 2026 is very good. Christian Persecution in America is the intolerable injustice of Christians being subjected to the same rules as everybody else.

Atheism, n. The refusal to surrender one’s sense of humor to an imaginary audience.