Clearsky

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]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Be careful what you wish for about regulating AI. The same religious crowd that has spent centuries trying to shackle and put out the light of human intelligence equally wants to do the same to Artificial Intelligence too […]

I agree 100%, @Enco! IMO keeping track of bad actors will increasingly become our biggest…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
The answer is all about what’s wrong with AI’s so-called “intelligence.”

The field of AI is only just now kicking off in a big time way, while it’s a big time opportunity for youtube presenters to speculate, pontificate, or just plain make up declarations about it. I disagree with the degree of relevance he puts on the fact that cu…[Read more]

I’ve been taking a break here, as earworms lasting almost three weeks now are still subsiding.

PopeBeanie wrote:
Unless the mother says otherwise. But no public health care for it, except maybe in Florida. And (by the way), BLAME GOD for it.

And name it Terry, as in Shiavo. I’m feeling like being really dark today.

Jake, Unseen, with moderator powers, I cheated and updated a previous post I addressed to Jake before I saw it should have been addressed to you.

I’ll delete this late edited, distracting post unless someone objects.

jakelafort wrote:
Nicely jibber jabbered Pope. Jabberwocky talky.

Thanks, I’m learning from the bestest of the jestest!

(Full disclosure, ChatGPT helped me cheat on creativity for this post. Here’s to wishing you your quests’ bests.)

Speaking of which, I asked it to paraphrase a few of Unseen’s paragraphs as poetry. (At first, because I’m…[Read more]

Frack. No brain, no pain; no feelings, no soul, no goal, no go. Harvest organs then BBQ the rest. Or sell it on a Chinese wet market.

Unless the mother says otherwise. But no public health care for it, except maybe in Florida. And (by the way), BLAME GOD for it.

Well yeah, when in ancient Rome…

But seriously, the reasoning I proposed doesn’t have any fine lines… technically after the baby’s born, how is it suddenly different as a “person”.

BTW ChatGPT tells me infanticide isn’t legal anywhere in the world, but google pointed me to wikipedia.…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I posted an article in the latest Sunday School that discusses this point.

Thanks, good article and it points to other good articles. I should revisit our Consciousness group and add some Big Think there. (Ugh, it looks like a lot of my writing there is way too wordy and needs heavy editing.)

Anyway, contrary to my…[Read more]

I know of atheists and libertarians who err on the side of the “right to life”. I think the dialog should focus more on “right to personhood”. Everyone draws their line according to some arbitrary length of gestation. My gray line would prioritize some kind of measurement of consciousness in the brain, and felt “life experiences” which even I…[Read more]

Fact checking by CNN at least is easy enough to find. I’m not bothering to watch it, and I’ll bet most Trumpists wouldn’t bother either, even though I wish they would. If anyone watches, can you say if CNN opinionates much, on top of their fact checking? (I did see a few short…[Read more]