Billie M Jones

Lol Reg. I thought it was just me. I genuinely found it extremely stressful watching American television. The breaks are so frequent…the adds so brazenly brainwashing (I mean they all are, but just so brazen in North America). And God forbid it is during an election campaign, where each side tries to convince you their opponent will turn America…[Read more]

the value of preserving the family to our society

The amount of times I have hear that phrase, then followed by vile justification for discrimination. I am genuinely curious precisely what “preserving the family to our society” means. Please elaborate on that Unseen. Be specific.

Unseen wrote:
At any rate, my point is that there’s much more logic to remaining skeptical than to being pollyannical (which may be a neologism, but I think its meaning is obvious).

Yeah, I pretty much already knew those points. I won’t reiterate mine, while I’m hoping someone will find them interesting enough to delve into. Like really, i…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
See why I’m a skeptic?

A thousand years is a drop in the bucket, e.g. wrt the time frame of human evolution. Recent science and tech is updating so quickly, perhaps even at an exponential pace; is it even possible to imagine how far it could go in only the next hundred years? Not to mention AI, and possibly self-replicating AI m…[Read more]

Your take on how to handle dysphoria seems to be highly technocratic and destructive to the concept of the family.

Groan.

I think the state of news dissemination and consumption is atrocious, even a danger to humanity at large. I think your and my views differ mostly on how to deal with it. I just avoid cynical and mocking commentaries as a rule, and prefer to focus on how to educate the consumer side of the supply and demand equation. I’m not saying I know how to do…[Read more]

I’m seeing Ukrainian military and pro-Ukrainian paramilitary actions on the rise. But instead of bickering over the timing or definition of “counter-offensive”, I ask:

Is Russia actually “winning”? Or to put it in your terms, have they “already won”?

Unseen wrote:
[…]We can see how dreadfully people can treat people, either personally or genocidally […]

A whole ‘nuther important issue for humanity, right? In the current context of AI, maybe we can use it to learn more about possible preventions and interventions. (I started to make suggestions here, but they’re largely off topic.)

Unseen wrote:
Question for you: If you can agree that love does not consist of acting in a loving way, so being empathetic does not consist of acting in an empathetic way. Can we also agree that a simulation of love is not love and can cause terrible blunders and so a simulation of empathy isn’t empathy and likewise would almost certainly r…

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jakelafort wrote:
What are words i never thought i would see or hear.

Haha LOL tan grande, I was thinking the same… while still feeling the love and truth.

Unseen wrote:
For example, how does the so-called “observer effect” not hint at something like a mental power or mental field or some such thing?

Observer Effect is a misnomer. One cannot just “see” an electron in flight, one has to measure it. As the twin slit experiment suggests, while in flight, an electron is acting as though it were a wav…[Read more]