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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…..

The evolution of secular morals and ethics from the 1600s to the present day is a compelling journey marked by a…[Read more]

From ScholarGPT:

Here are nine critical reading methods you can choose from:

1. 📜 ***Summarize & Question***: Create a brief summary and formulate three stimulating questions to deepen understanding.

2. 💡 ***Critical Inquiry***: Develop three questions that challenge reasoning and provoke critical thought.

3. 🆚 ***Contrast Analysis***: Compare…[Read more]

We ask the questions, it provides answers. Use the Scholar GPT. It is brilliant.

Enhance research with 200M+ resources and built-in critical reading skills.

I have the fully paid version…….so send me a question Simon.

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?

I am working on a tattoo idea about the merger of AI and Humanity (Trans-humanism) It will be the second last tattoo on my back (not much space left!)  and depict an “AI Adam and Eve”.  Of course it is all designed by AI and with some human ideas on the final edit. This is where I am at with it. I may also consider the second one. Any i…[Read more]

Scary/creepy thought: If the entire human population on the planet were wiped out leaving AI-controlled computers and robots, the AI could go on producing music and movies, if it had a reason to, such as entertaining itself to relieve the boredom.

_Robert_ wrote:
You can do better with facts than that, Simon.

I know, but it’s so intricate, it’s hard to keep track of.

Actually widespread knowlege of the Holocaust was 1942 or 1943. Not only did the people in the region that is today Jordan, Egypt, West Bank and Gaza reject a state in 1947 but the greater Arab world as well. That is why a coalition attacked immediately. They wanted it all.

Nothing has fundamentally changed in the Arab/Muslim world since…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
The Jewish people were looking for a state and a homeland – as are the Palestinians. They have the homeland without the state. It seems like the Palestinians are being used as footballs by all sides. A middle-Eastern homeland and state for a middle-Eastern people seems like a reasonable idea in principle, for both s…

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Unseen wrote:
@ Robert But how many of those baddies would exist except in response to Israel? By your standard the Iroquois Confederacy is a nation-state. Like the European Jews, they were forced off their land and either forced onto reservations (open air concentration camps) or forced into the general colonial population where they are often…

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Simon, The Arabs leaders refused the 2 State solution that the Jewish leaders had accepted, back in 1947.  The Palestinians could have had their own State but decided they wanted more of the land designated to the Jewish State.  That was two years after the world learned about the Holocaust. A year later they found themselves in another war.

The Jewish people were looking for a state and a homeland – as are the Palestinians.  They have the homeland without the state.  It seems like the Palestinians are being used as footballs by all sides.

A middle-Eastern homeland and state for a middle-Eastern people seems like a reasonable idea in principle, for both sides.

@_Robert_

And no, you don’t get to arbitrarily pick a date when Israel began just because it is in the modern era. There are very few places where the very original inhabitants are still there, and Israel is one of them. In fact, the entire Middle East was absolutely non-Muslim until they conquered the region through war while worshiping their w…[Read more]

@ Robert

But how many of those baddies would exist except in response to Israel?

By your standard the Iroquois Confederacy is a nation-state.  Like the European Jews, they were forced off their land and either forced onto reservations (open air concentration camps) or forced into the general colonial population where they are often reviled…[Read more]