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Winter Lily

Unseen started the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 1 week ago

…for there to be no free will.

Under the current ‘standard model” of physics, accepted by the majority of physicists, we exist in a so-called “block universe.”

I asked Gemini AI to define block universe in layman terms and I got this:

In simple terms, the Block Universe theory is the idea that the past, the present, and the future all exist…[Read more]
Simon Paynton posted an update 5 months, 1 week ago

In the UK, a police chief is in trouble for banning Israeli football supporters from a match, based on an AI mistake. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn984j9d7o
- jakelafort replied 5 months, 1 week ago
  
  i saw that in JP but did not read it. My assumption was that the putative basis for denying Israelis was to keep them safe and i am thinking sure let the aggressors watch and ban the targets of aggression. But no it is the zionists who are the threat!
  - TheEncogitationer replied 5 months, 1 week ago
    
    Yet another reason not to let AI as it exists now be in charge of anything.
    
    A really bright intelligence would say to the Constable: “Sooo…Let’s see what the 5th and 14th Amendment case law says on cases like this…Oh,wait…You Brits don’t have a written Constitution or Bill of Rights. There’s your trouble…And as for cultural ethos, don’t…[Read more]
  - TheEncogitationer replied 5 months, 1 week ago
    
    Jake, another thing a really bright AI would instruct the Constable is to either provide adequate security for all parties or use emergency powers and tell everybody: “No nice things for you “
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I must respect your beliefs?? Some chance of me doing that when I don’t even respect my own. I don’t believe things to feel safe. You don’t want your beliefs respected. You want them immunized for criticism.

Someone said that people with intellectual humility are more successful, they didn’t specify in what way. …[Read more]
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Me, in conversation with a evangelical street preacher in Dublin last week.

What did they say back? Anything? Very well put.
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Thanks Reg!!
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Simon Paynton wrote:
For some the cross is a plus but it’s a negative for me.

Very good. It reminds me of the way to tell the axes of a graph apart: x is across.
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
For most Christians the cross is a symbol of the resurrection, not the trinity.

If the trinity is going to represent the cross, then it needs to be a 4, not a 3.
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 2 weeks ago

TheEncogitationer wrote:
King Iyk has made it pretty clear how Christians can use AI to spout pseudo-mathematical apologetics.

You can’t knock him for trying. But I think he’s misguided (by AI).
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Someone said that the reason LLM validates @kingiyk‘s “proof” of God’s existence, is that the internet is full of information and discourse that agrees with it. Whereas, there’s not much on the true existence of Dracula. So, the LLM repeats what it sees.

There’s the whole article in last week’s Sunday School about how AI validates what people w…[Read more]
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 4th 2026 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Gettier Problem: True Justified Belief without Knowledge.

Again, I think the problem with True Justified Belief is the statement, I am factually justified. To know I am factually justified, I must know that my belief is true, yet I use this justification as proof that the belief is true. I justify the truth o…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 4th 2026 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks, Reg!!
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks ago

@regthefronkeyfarmer – but I never said the truth had to be justified – just “true”. Anyway I like your definition of understanding better – understanding the factors that make something happen, and everything has a causative structure.

I understand that the concept of truth is not simple and is hard to define precisely. If something is l…[Read more]
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Religious justification is more powerful than anger or hatred and that is how ordinary people become instruments of atrocity.

I actually think that extremist religion and politics can justify “righteous” anger and hatred, blotting out all compassion or respect for human rights. That’s because morality has an…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 3 weeks ago

@ PopeBeanie

But the video quality of the clip I put up is the the quality of the actual TV performance and your clip is mostly NOT the music! I can do without voyeuristically watching them get their hair and makeup done. LOL
Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 5 months, 4 weeks ago

A secret wish finally fulfilled: The Warning playing La Bamba, the Mexican folk song turned into a rock and roll hit by Richie Valens (Valenzuela) back in the 1960’s.
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Understanding – apprehending the truth – is an aspiration or goal. We can’t guarantee to reach an adequate understanding of something.

Understanding is true belief. False beliefs are either redundant or harmful because delusion is always unsatisfactory.
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Univ. of Oklahoma punishes instructor for failing Christian student who didn’t do the assignment.

She wrote a right-wing rant instead. I think that the student, Samantha Fulnecky, will never be able to get a normal job now. But there’s plenty of work spouting off on YouTube, playing the victim and pretending to be…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 6 months ago

Thanks, Reg! Happy New Year to you and I hope all your Machiavellian plans for 2026 achieve outstanding success!
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 6 months ago

@regthefronkeyfarmer – what does LLM think of your proof of Dracula?
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 6 months ago

The best you’ve got are symbolic arguments – “this” symbolises “that” and therefore “the other”. That’s not enough to prove something is real.
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