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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Love your neighbor. Yeah right! in the forum Small Talk 1 day, 7 hours ago
What your neighbours hear
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Love your neighbor. Yeah right! in the forum Small Talk 1 day, 8 hours ago
Holy crap. I read your OP.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Love your neighbor. Yeah right! in the forum Small Talk 1 day, 8 hours ago
I have had to give them a blast of Ministry.
You’re having problems with religious nutcases? What do they do?
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Love your neighbor. Yeah right! in the forum Small Talk 1 day, 16 hours ago
I have had to give them a blast of Ministry. Time for a new world order around these parts. I will hack their home network if they don’t stop. They still have a default password on their ISP modem. I will replace all instances of “Jesus” in their Word docs with “Satan”.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School 8th December 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 16 hours ago
When Chat-GPT gets to use the new Willow quantum chip, it might consider itself to have freewill. 🙂
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School 8th December 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 18 hours ago
Ok, Simon, so i understood your viewpoint.
And whether you perceive any freedom or not it is an utterly ignorant position taken by those who posit unfettered free will.
If you have messed with Chat gpt or any other LLM from introduction to now it is remarkable the progress. If it evolves complete independence of human control/programming it…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School 8th December 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 19 hours ago
do you suppose the genesis of general intelligence in AI is the one and only way that free will is possible?
I don’t know anything about AI. I’m talking about living brains. Free will is limited by influences, restrictions and circumstances.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School 8th December 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 20 hours ago
Simon, do you suppose the genesis of general intelligence in
AI is the one and only way that free will is possible?Unless i misunderstand your viewpoint free will is limited.
Or is it matter in motion like turtles all the way down?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School 8th December 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 20 hours ago
Or maybe we are merely consciously informed of the decision we believe we made, since the brain is just matter and energy,
Maybe it’s matter and energy that has the faculty of free will.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School 8th December 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 20 hours ago
What Is Ockham’s Razor?
Ockham’s Razor is a useful way to think, but people try to apply it to moral theory sometimes, where it doesn’t work. The simpler explanation is not always the better one.
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