John F

I would argue that the absolute greatest of care must be taken when developing artificial intelligence. A machine with the potential to develop intelligence exponentially greater than our own, with autonomy and a capacity to have its own goals and distinct interest to our own, could easily have a great incentive to sabotage us and/or control us…[Read more]

There are numerous moments in evolution which are just as meaningful as the emergence of self-awareness amongst humans including simple awareness of one’s environment at all. Every trait in the animal kingdom such as:

hive behaviour

awareness of environment

parents fostering their young

adaptions of deception

emotion

pain

free-will

can be…[Read more]

Okay. So I officially close the door on this conversation then. There is zero chance it can go anywhere productive. Michael, your ideas sound more incomprehensible and slightly unhinged every time you visit.

I know I said I wouldn’t respond to anything else, but this is too hard to resist.

Am I to understand it then Michael that you went back in time to Israel to meet the first Christians?

Michael, I cannot make any sense out of this until I have a clear grasp of:

What specific documents you use as the basis of your so called “true Christianity”. I will only discuss this further if you specifically name the documents. If it includes biblical books, please tell me which ones you do not include that are in the catholic cannon and…[Read more]

Michael I cannot make any sense out of what you just said. It is word soup. Please provide a clear, legible, comprehensible explanation.

No Michael. I’m not reading any more of your stupid links. They ALWAYS lead to easily refutable nonsense. Being a member here does not oblige you to read anything, let alone something by a user with a history of posting garbage.

Having said that…I am quite interested by your comment on “true Christianity”.

What is true Christianity?

Please be…[Read more]

Indeed Jake. Enco, your drive to write a narrative that hypersimplifies things that supports your own world view and makes your own homeland seem valiant while disparaging others is incredible. You criticise Russians for blindly supporting their leader who makes questionable war time decisions while ignoring the fact that Americans overwhelmingly…[Read more]

Oh God does Europe ever have a horrific history. Colonialism…uffff! WWII was only 70 years ago. The Yugoslavian ugliness was only a couple decades ago. Russia has annexed Crimea and Belarus is still a dictatorship.

some countries around the world have copied admirable ideas from the United States including the idea that a supreme court defends…[Read more]

I love the whole we can afford our social programs because America defends us garbage bullshit.

America’s involvement in Iraq made Europe far less safe (terrorism commenced on a monthly basis pretty much after the second invasion of Iraq thank you). Europe has the same number of troops as America does…we just don’t have obscenely overpriced…[Read more]

Indeed. The US liberally borrows technological innovations coming out of underdeveloped nations all the time (buying it out often). They did so when Taiwan and South Korea were developing their economy, Eastern European countries as they were transitioning from communism to capitalism and they do so now with India and Brazil.

Russia was the undeniable saviour of Europe through WWII while America spent years ignoring the war and their allies and only entered the war theatre when the war became inconvenient (they totally appeased facist governments and even collaborated with them until it became bad optics). To claim Russia was some non-valliant thug is utterly…[Read more]

Unseen I watched the video. His arguments are compelling though I haven’t had a chance to look up his credentials (as I would with any podcast) and so I would prefer to independently verify some of his claims.

Basically NOT trying to interfere with Afghan politics in the 70s would likely have resulted in something less horrific than we have now. I am not saying it would have resulted in paradise but I doubt it would have led to a Taliban. The US has an atrocious record of interfering with democratically elected governments which were heading “too far to…[Read more]

The best strategy is meaningless if key Afghan officials work against you and others flee quickly. The ENTIRE endeavour from the moment the US government funded the Taliban during the Soviet invasion to the initial bombing just to catch one terrorist cell (who ended up hiding out in another country) was a massive failure. The occupation and…[Read more]

Biden set out his time table in April and he even delayed the withdrawl. It is one thing to disagree with the decision, it is another to say he didn’t give any warning and it is LUDICROUS, as Enco is doing, to blame previous presidents for staying and then blame they next one for leaving while implying that President didn’t give adequate time to…[Read more]

Uhhh…Enco, the plan was made months ago by Trump, Biden confirmed when he took office that he would follow through (on a slightly modified date) and then he did. I fail to see how there was no warning or heads up. Where Enco do you get your info from?

Indeed Robert. Theologians seem to aim for an extremely low threshold of “demonstrable proof” for their historical claims, both in the quality and sophistication of evidence for particular claims AND in the quantity of claims in the overall package which can be proven. It seems with many religions that if 5% of the narrative is true…then that is…[Read more]

Pretty much Jake. I do not see the 99.999999999999999% probability that something doesn’t exist as some impure insufficient disappointing conclusion. It is not only the best we can expect, but it is far also more than sufficient and yet allows the tiny microscopic potential for a surprise. This is the stance any rational person should have with…[Read more]