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“Just accuse your enemies of exactly what you are doing.”

Can you imagine the reaction of the far left (that Unseen occupies on this one issue only) if Israelis were identical in their governance, in their behavior, in their ethics to Muslims? And not simply the steady stream of Islamic terrorists, just mainstream run of the mill middle eastern…[Read more]

The video about what the UNWRA summer camps teach children is very….what’s the word I am looking for?

From Jalealfort’s post above.

LOL, good one Unseen. Using human shields against HAMAS, LOL. This is so fucking stupid, as if HAMAS would give a damn who they kill. CNN forgot that HAMAS is in the martyr business. It’s like the MAGA/Trump/Nazi playbook. Just accuse your enemies of exactly what you are doing.

Well, Gaza is a pile of rubble. How is that ‘river to the sea’…[Read more]

Hey, guess who’s been using human shields.

jakelafort wrote:
Yea of course the region would be a mess with or without Israel. How many of those conflicts, genocides, civil wars, atrocities, acts of terrorism have zero to do with Israel?

A mess perhaps, but one threatening to trigger a new world war? Explain.

A bit of an aside, but I had a 2 year experience with clinical depression, but never toyed with the idea of suicide. It more or less coincided with unwisely getting involved with an unhappily married woman. I hoped she would leave her situation for me, and I tried to steer her in that direction. She had a habit of cutting the relation off but…[Read more]

I thought about suicide in only one period of time, back when I was suffering from social anxiety so badly that I stopped going to work, and depression set in. The day I drove out to jump off a cliff (literally) became a comedy of errors, getting a random flat tire on the way, during a miserable rainstorm. I.e. I couldn’t even get to the cliff,…[Read more]

Never mind. The above reply didn’t show up shortly after I saved it so I wrote another one here, and when I saved it, the reply I thought lost suddenly was there. So, I deleted the one I wrote here.

PopeBeanie wrote:
@unseen, have you thought about what you might want to say to Pau, if it ever seemed like she’s deeply troubled by the prospect of death? (I know she’s already talked about it, and a possible afterlife, to some degree.) If she ever considered and followed through with suicide for some reason — and I’m not implying that there’s…

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About Paulina, and reflecting on Breathe, mentioned in your first post. For other readers, too. The recording’s been played when the band’s offstage during intermission. She finally played and sang it live at the Pepsi 2023 concert, for the first time. I thought she was unable to finish it, before realizing only today, it’s a very short song.

The…[Read more]

Idea for tattoo.

Convey the 2001 a space odyssey theme. How to do it? Maybe a tongue kiss in which the bot’s eyes are illuminated and suggest sentience.

Are qualia like pain, suffering, or happiness empirically measurable in human beings? If so, might there be empirically measurable analogs in other large brained animals? Same question for developing human fetuses.

How does an AI define consciousness, and using that definition, can an AI achieve consciousness, and how would AI know whether it is conscious or not.

AI doesn’t have a true definition of consciousness because it isn’t conscious—it can only simulate understanding by processing inputs and patterns. For AI, any “definition” of consciousness is ba…[Read more]

Improvement noted.

@ Reg

You might ask your AI…

How it defines consciousness, and using that definition, can an AI achieve consciousness, and finally whether it is conscious or not and how it knows whether it is or not.

Give or cite specific instances of terrorism during the British mandate of Palestine from both Palestinian and Jewish terrorists?

During the British Mandate in Palestine (1920-1948), there were notable instances of violence carried out by both Jewish and Palestinian factions, often in opposition to British rule or each other. Here are a few…[Read more]

Reg i am curious if the one you are touting has gotten past the human biases or sensitivities. Therefore here are a few questions. Thanks in advance. If it is a problem i understand.

Give or cite specific instances of terrorism during the British mandate of Palestine from both Palestinian and Jewish terrorists?

How does the promotion and…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
My Question to ScholarGPT: Can you write a short essay on the evolution of secular morals and ethics since 1600 to the present day and how it has improved upon the static rules of theistic faith. It’s Answer, 8 seconds later…..

Yeah. It may be past time to be afraid of AI and instead be time to quash it…if we can.

Simon Paynton wrote:
AI is good at summarising information, apparently. But can it do research – does it know where to look for new information? Can it ask the right questions? Does it know that it doesn’t know?

You sound like me just a few years ago thinking that AI could never create something like that music video in the top post.

I think AI…[Read more]