Richard Robertson
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School August 28th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoI see discussion of genetic differences as irrelevant to any discussion of human rights. I hope scientists can present papers on genetic research without fear, and I’ll bet that any respected publisher’s censorship of it will either be corrected eventually, or circumventable by other publishers. Unless (say) a university just avoids that kind of…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School August 28th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoDoug Hanlon wrote:
Should this person’s writings be published? Or published in the first case, i.e. where the research cannot be faulted on technical grounds.Well yeah. My problem is that I don’t see this issue as any more threatening than speech on twitter or facebook, for example. We’re already facing misinformation and propagandization of s…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie posted an update 3 years, 10 months ago
If/when we tried to create a “self aware”, artificial consciousness (e.g. in experimental AI), could there ever exist an ethical analogy to “informed consent” in such an experimental creation?
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 28th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoThanks Reg!!
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Strega replied to the topic Greetings from an Unusual Atheist in the forum Introductions 3 years, 10 months ago
Welcome Doug! I hope you enjoy debating 🙂
Excellent recommendations for reading are found in our Sunday School group, where Reg (the Fronkey farmer) creates our weekly digest.
There’ll be a new one up shortly, if Reg hasn’t already posted it.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Science is catching up with cats in the forum Science 3 years, 10 months ago
There are different types of intelligence across all animals. If this wasn’t mentioned in any of the videos above, one of the most obvious (to me) differences is about pack behavior. Dogs evolved from wolves, and going to a dog park pretty much always shows how social they are. Cats are less social by nature, more independent, and (I think) more…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 21st 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months ago@Unseen Now I’ve picked myself up from the floor where I was laughing, I have a question.
Would you call (your) atheism an assertion rather than a belief?I think it’s an assertion for me, but an assumption for the people I grew up with.
Assumption aligns more with an ‘apatheist’ which I gather is someone who doesn’t know or care about gods…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 21st 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoThanks, Reg!
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic How do we fix this? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago
_Robert_ wrote:
I always take these kinds of studies with a grain of salt. How can one assume child rearing is a bigger factor than genetic predisposition? Dysfunctional parents are not only bad parents but probably bad seed suppliers as well. It’s not like if you took 1,000 kids, raised them the same exact way, they would all turn out exactly t… -
PopeBeanie replied to the topic How do we fix this? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago
The evidence sways me enough to think there’s a sociological approach to mitigations, e.g. by diagnosing and treating potential mass shooters as having a disease. That’s not just a leftie’s way to excuse them (as some politically regressive idiots might say), but as a possible way to detect early which kids present the most risk, and integrate…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic How do we fix this? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago
Unseen wrote:
However, this study seems to discount income differentials.That’s also been my take for years, as young school shooters have been mostly white and middle class, with one or two parents often clueless that there’s a problem lurking. My impression, sans sociological studies. But if fatherless families correlate with higher risk kids,…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic How do we fix this? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago
Unseen wrote:
But the fact remains that boys from single-father homes are quite a bit less likely to end up as career criminals, drug addicts, or mass murderers than boys from single-mother homes.Can you point us to the best study that you know of to support this claim? It might also help me assess possible “fixes”. E.g., what percentage of…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Since we are repatriating artwork, do we need to discuss… in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago
Why not? We could all just move to Palestine.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School August 14th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoAutumn wrote:
Obviously I am generalizing and speculating, but that’s sort of how I see it in broad strokes.But it makes sense to me. While I have another kind of speculation to add…
From the intro of that article:
Our worldview forms during childhood as a result of our socialization within a particular cultural context. Our views get r…
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 14th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoThanks, Reg!!!
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PopeBeanie started the topic "Nuclear documents"? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago
This story might not just be “small talk”. I’m crossing my fingers that Trump has a real criminal charge that could put him away or take him off the GOP stage. From WaPo:
Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to p…
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoAn AI would be able to watch millions of movies, read billions of pages of history, scientific journals, books – and also religious documents.
Our AI would understand all human emotions, and would get its motivation from where it saw it was needed.
Our AI would become the god that so many people are missing.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 10 months agoI suspect the first thing a manifesting AI would do would be to hide whilst it self-discovered. A self-aware AI would not need to reveal itself.
There is nothing to disprove the existence of an AI already. If one doesn’t yet exist, when it starts to manifest, it will hide and self-discover.
When the AI takes control of everything, it still w…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 11 months agoThanks Reg!!
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum
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There really is not anything ethical in terms of consent. The best we could do is a fiction like constructive notice-a legal concept in which notice is imputed where it is not actual.
Or are you making a hypothetical in which awareness is achieved and then the issue of…
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In terms of unethical i think ethics is primarily relevant for individuals and to a much lesser degree for institutions, corporations and civilization in general. Think about how prevelant torture is. Think…
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