What could possibly go wrong with trusting Pete with it, right?

[Moderator note: I changed the name of this topic from “ChatGPT 2022/2023” to “ChatGPT 2022 to ?”]

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Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

A state of being is not a “state of things.” It’s about how one IS. At one moment being happy and a millisecond later of being distraught. A state of being describes ones state at a parti…

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_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

A state of being is not a “state of things.” It’s about how one IS. At one moment being happy and a millisecond later of being distraught. A state of being describes ones state at a particular time, which can…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

Maybe you can call it a mood.

Sure, the main point being that a deterministic, rational, but emotionless human existence is probably subpar.

_Robert_ wrote:
I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

Maybe you can call it a mood.

Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
Yeah, and this is also why some say we need a god…watching, looking, keeping score.

We’re all monitored and evaluated the entire time, by ourselves and everybody who knows us. There’s a big eye watching us all the time, and it’s called the human race.

Yes, but the level of detail varies widely, and the wat…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
Happiness is an emotion, after all.

Happiness is not an emotion. Properly categorized, it’s a state of being.

I disagree. One can go from happiness to being distraught in a millisecond, without the state of things changing at all.

_Robert_ wrote:
Yeah, and this is also why some say we need a god…watching, looking, keeping score.

We’re all monitored and evaluated the entire time, by ourselves and everybody who knows us.  There’s a big eye watching us all the time, and it’s called the human race.

_Robert_ wrote:
Happiness is an emotion, after all.

Happiness is not an emotion. Properly categorized, it’s a state of being.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
I agree emotions do play a role in morality because we are not Vulcans.

A belief in determinism helps one to leave emotion out of decisions because a determinist isn’t thinking in terms of praise and blame. His behavior will be more in terms of fixing things.

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Simon Paynton wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
however for those who only make good choices for recognition or some other form of payback you might say the ends justify the means. It is still weak morality, IMHO.

Some people say that something good done for its own sake is the only kind of real virtue.

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_Robert_ wrote:
I agree emotions do play a role in morality because we are not Vulcans.

A belief in determinism helps one to leave emotion out of decisions because a determinist isn’t thinking in terms of praise and blame. His behavior will be more in terms of fixing things.

_Robert_ wrote:
however for those who only make good choices for recognition or some other form of payback you might say the ends justify the means. It is still weak morality, IMHO.

Some people say that something good done for its own sake is the only kind of real virtue.

Simon Paynton wrote:
I think the task is to come up with alternatives to utilitarianism, consequentialism etc., which are an intuitive way in but don’t actually really go anywhere in the real world. A good alternative is morality as collaboration – both what happens within the collaboration, and its goal, are subjects for morality.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
…We need emotions and consequences to govern us morally. Rationality can guide us up some weird paths……

I would suggest the converse of that is true.

All three together is ideal.

I would suggest the converse of that is true.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Categorical Imperative could be considered a foundational principle of morality. It is grounded in the belief that moral actions must be guided by rationality and universalizable principles, rather than emotions or consequences. I don’t really see what it wrong with that.

That sounds good, but there’s a lot w…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Group Selection: Groups with cooperative, moral members tend to survive and thrive better, promoting the evolution of moral behavior.

Ethical Frameworks: Philosophical doctrines like Kant’s categorical imperative or utilitarianism guide moral actions through reasoned principles.

These are flat-out wrong.  Beyond th…[Read more]

“But what does it mean? When human artists create art, it’s meaningful.” My reply is Jackson Pollock? Mondrian? Sometimes visual art is…[Read more]

The basics of human morality are easy to understand and I think the presentation here is accurate. Yes, we can argue about individual cases and how different groups treat various scenarios but morality is…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Below are some key motivators:

OK.  It has the stock answers down pat (kind of), but there’s nothing new or creative there.  It reads like a machine.

“What a fascinating way to think about black holes!” and “and I love that kind of creative rethinking”

The motivation for people’s sense of responsibility to comply with moral norms and behave morally arises from a complex interplay of psychological, social, and cultural factors. Below are some key motivators:

1. Empathy and Compassion

Innate Response: Humans are biologically wired for empathy, allowing them to feel the emotions of o…[Read more]

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]

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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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.

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.

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.