Artificial Intelligence

Can you try asking ChatGPT, what motivates people’s sense of responsibility to comply with moral norms and to behave in a moral fashion.

Here is where I am at with Chatgpt at the moment. My comment first:

The term ‘dark matter’ is a problem for me. I think “unobserved gravitational effects” might be a better term. This could be a gravitational anomaly caused by black holes.

Gravity (relational gravity) is not an independent Force. It is an emergent phenomenon arising from the int…[Read more]

The pseudoscience/apologist crowd always has so much to say about postulations in physics. If you gave them a simple quiz to calculate the weight of a 1 earth-pound brick sitting on the Martian surface, or magnetic field strength and direction created by a given energized coil for example, how many could do it? How many would even know where to start?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Me: “I don’t really adhere to the multiverse theories.”

The video below goes into “gravity leaking between two or more braned universes” as a possible way to explain dark matter and/or dark energy. (Umm, I think?)

PopeBeanie wrote:
(It might even be a connection through a wormhole, but wtf do I know?!)

I was wonde…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
OpenAI reveal they achieved AGI – OpenAI o3. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have a degree of “self-awareness”, adaptability, and creative problem-solving in situations it hasn’t been explicitly trained for. It will have the ability to continually learn and adapt autonomously, mimicking human-like learnin…

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…….it must be a visceral decision at the end of the day for pregnant mothers…..

I know a few women who have had abortions and it was a practical, even a somewhat mundane decision for them. That is, except for one mother of three children who would have died in Ireland last year had the murderous Catholic Church retained any power over the…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
OpenAI reveal they achieved AGI – OpenAI o3. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have a degree of “self-awareness”, adaptability, and creative problem-solving in situations it hasn’t been explicitly trained for. It will have the ability to continually learn and adapt autonomously, mimicking human-like learnin…

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Unseen wrote:
We do not live in a world where the average person is a philosopher who acts rationally without prejudice based on information.

That’s true, it must be a visceral decision at the end of the day for pregnant mothers.  But in wider society, on both sides, people take philosophical positions.

OpenAI reveal they achieved AGI – OpenAI o3.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will have a degree of “self-awareness”, adaptability, and creative problem-solving in situations it hasn’t been explicitly trained for. It will have the ability to continually learn and adapt autonomously, mimicking human-like learning processes.

It will have the…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
What is the highest good or goal on each side?

Simon, Simon, Simon. We do not live in a world where the average person is a philosopher who acts rationally without prejudice based on information. Most people act from their gut, taking their attitudes into account, and based only on the information they want to credit or even hear.

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.

Most pro-lifers are liars as they very quickly become anti-lifers or pro-death when it comes to capital punishment. So what if a few innocent people are murdered by the State. Yet a fetus that is about 2 to 2.5 inches (5 to 6 cm) long from crown to rump (head to bottom) and weighs abo…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
However, the disagreements over abortion are not disagreements over facts.  They are conflicts over attitudes or matters of opinion or definition.

What is the highest good or goal on each side?

Pro-life people say that “life” is sacrosanct no matter what.  Pro-choice people take a longer-term approach and think about the lifetime o…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
It’s often “framed” by people who aren’t facing the question and the woman facing the choice has already set aside “greater good for the child” question.

We don’t know how the individual women see it. It must be pretty subjective. As men, we never will understand it directly.

It can be argued that it’s very imp…

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Unseen wrote:
It’s often “framed” by people who aren’t facing the question and the woman facing the choice has already set aside “greater good for the child” question.

We don’t know how the individual women see it.  It must be pretty subjective.  As men, we never will understand it directly.

It can be argued that it’s very important soc…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I frame the question of abortion as a healthcare choice.

Well, yeah, but (as a pro-lifer might say) what about the health of the baby?

There is a deep divide over this issue and it’s not a disagreement over facts (which would make it solvable). Rather, it’s a disagreement in attitudes.

I frame the question of abortion as a healthcare choice.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
It gets more complicated when the acts are individual (like whether to get an abortion) rather than social.

But the abortion question is framed as the greater good for the child – on either side.

It’s often “framed” by people who aren’t facing the question and the woman facing the choice has already set aside “…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
It gets more complicated when the acts are individual (like whether to get an abortion) rather than social.

But the abortion question is framed as the greater good for the child – on either side.

The debates on the existence of free will have been poisoned by “the god question.” The science on this topic is inconclusive. Science does not presuppose the answer. Theists however must have it exist to satisfy religious claims. They need relieve their god of the suffering and evil in his world.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
“Evil” is defined in different ways in different times, places, and communities. In Sparta, for example, it wasn’t evil to murder deformed or weak babies.

But they were doing it for unselfish reasons: for the greater good. That’s not so different from our conception of good and evil.

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