Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
What do you mean by “thorough and satisfactorily.” How do you determine it is satisfactory. What makes your interpretation of human behavior better than another? Those questions involve reasoning about evidence, explanatory adequacy and competing hypotheses.

A good example is conceptions of fairness, how it evo…[Read more]

Sorry, I meant Thomas Nagel. But while I’m thinking of it, “What is it like for Earnest Nagel to be Thomas Nagel?”
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“Mister Earnest Nagel, call your office! A bat,a bee, and a flying squirrel are waiting on the Party Line! The flying squirrel says: ‘Again?'”
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You can tell us what it is like to be you. How much differently you feel after someone you love dies, after your bet loses, been informed you have a horrible disease, your friend is getting married. But you can’t tell what is like to be another human any better than an lLM. If anything LLM’s are better situated to do so. They interact…[Read more]

Here is the one part i take exception. “They cannot, by themselves, tell us whether those answers are well founded, ethically defensible, historically informed, or rhetorically misleading.”

There are or will be millions of agents and ideally they will train children to be skeptical and acute. Yea i know that is a…[Read more]

Will artificial intelligence change how philosophy is conducted?

While I would never want to farm out philosophy to AI or any other intelligent being, once they have a level of intelligence equal to or exceeding humans, they can all be partners in better understanding concepts in Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Political…[Read more]

“I have to praise you like I should” since you pay more attention to writing than Turning Point-ers* pay attention to their own Bibles.

But Turning Point-ers are too busy reading The Daily Mail’s latest…[Read more]

Enco,

“If TPUSA comes to your town, Please, I abhor you:”

Reimagine that sentence. I implore you.

Great catch! ⚾

A little ‘Inside Baseball” from a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000:

Whenever Joel and/or the Bots are making an empassioned plea, They’ll always say: “Please, I abhor you…”

One of their many humorous tics of spe…

Based on query i fed Meta about William Lane Craig debate i suspect it is a fait accompli. And why not. It is just reasoning.

“If TPUSA comes to your town, Please, I abhor you:”

Reimagine that sentence. I implore you.

Evidently, the Turning Point-ers like eating parts of living beings like the Zombies of George Romero movies or like The Reavers of the Firefly/Serenity franchise, not to mention a-robbin’and a-stabbin’and a-lootin’ and a-shootin’:

‘Awkward’: TPUSA event with Jewish speaker sparks hateful MAGA…[Read more]

Philosophy is an inte…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Will artificial intelligence change how philosophy is conducted?

I don’t believe that AI could ever do moral philosophy.  The moral philosophy that I do is descriptive (the only valid kind) and to do that, a person needs to know what it’s like to be a human being.

On top of that, why would we ever want AI to do our…[Read more]

World of Woo: How pseudoscience is duping football.

If they want to stop dementia. maybe a good place to start is not sitting in a deep-freeze, but instead not deliberately hitting the soccer ball with their heads. Repeated head blows don’t do boxers any good! So why would they be any good for soccer players?

At least with U.S.…[Read more]

Sorry, but I just had to post this.

I’m not eating anything from that bucket after Jim Bakker ate from the ladle, gagged a little in his mouth, and dipped the ladle back in the bucket, especially since Jim Bakker also hawks some bogus cure for COVID-19!

And Tubby singing a cover of “My Girl” in praise of The End Times is just cringe-y.…[Read more]

Rutgers. This is my gun, this if for fun on the brain? Rutgers it is. Can’t refer to the misspelling as a typo since it is a missing character. Failure of compression omission.

As manic as I can be about correcting my spelling, errors can still be fun. The Rugers/Rutgers confusion was too good to resist.

Never formally studied logic. H…

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Rutgers. This is my gun, this if for fun on the brain? Rutgers it is. Can’t refer to the misspelling as a typo since it is a missing character. Failure of compression omission.

Never formally studied logic. Had Spock though as a pater. Did read Getting to Yes by Fisher and Ury apropos of nada. Hopefully none of the rapists at Rutgers…[Read more]

You popped my explanadum/explanans cherry. How did i never encounter this for 63 miserable years? What else is lurking in the shadows?

My explanandum/explanans cherry (metaphorically speaking) was busted 40 years ago on the (metaphorical) shoulders of giants, namely Introduction to Logic byIrving Copi and Logic and Philosophy by Howard…[Read more]

And here are a few quotes or near quotes that stuck with me.

“Jews are destroying what you value most.”

Some Jews at their best can destroy things that shouldn’t exist, like ignorance, disease, poverty, and tyranny.

Some Jews at their worst destroy things that should prevail like enlightenment, health, prosperity, and fre…[Read more]

You popped my explanadum/explanans cherry. How did i never encounter this for 63 miserable years? What else is lurking in the shadows?

Sudden Sam used the word henotheism to describe the beliefs of the ancient Hebrews. Waht evah. Garbage in. Garbage out. And a whole lot of copy catting among cultures as bad ideas or rather beliefs were…[Read more]

Yea mythology origin stories have commonality in how inward looking they are. Jews are no different and their YawYaw, woops (not to be confused with Yaw Yaw Sinwa) was not initially as i understand it conceived as a singular god. One of many but a jealous one. Just a jealous one.

So I’ve read and heard, the ancient Hebrews had both Yahweh…[Read more]

Great and thoughtful video! Antisemitism is truly a perverse parsimony for those unhinged to reality, where the explanandum has little to nothing to do with the explanans.

The joinable tribe take shows how ridiculous it is when a definition is necessary to clarify after the shitstorm of conflation and ignominy that no other people endure.

Yea mythology origin stories have commonality in how inward looking they are. Jews are no different and their YawYaw, woops (not to be confused with Yaw Yaw Sinwa) was not…[Read more]

Yep Enco.

You corrected my rememory of the sinnah.

If you wanna learn something this lady has some fresh viewpoints that make sense to me.

So Jews am who they am and that’s all what they am? Ak-yuk-yuk-yuk! Well blows me down!

“A joinable tribe with a common history, homeland, and culture.” I can dig it.

So does this mean they made…[Read more]

Here WBT 1110 AM, the Charlotte Conservative talk radio station, uses the morning news program to remember the “complicated” legacy of Jim Bakker and PTL. (To avoid beginning falderal, start listening at about 29:00.)

Good Morning BT | Jim Bakker Dead at 86 | The Complicated Legacy of…[Read more]

I think a bucket is a more appropriate coffin for Bakker than a matchbox.

A bucket would be good for Jim Bakker, especially after the flock of sheeple wake up to the fact that they can easily preserve their own food and probably more to their own tastes and dietary needs.

They could buy a dehydrator or an air fryer with a dehydrator mode…[Read more]

You corrected my rememory of the sinnah.

If you wanna learn something this lady has some fresh viewpoints that make sense to me.

You might be thinking of Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, The Other White Sepulcred Meat™:

Pop-Up Video Factoid: There is a sausage brand and company called Swaggarty’s Farm. Unknown if was an enterprise of his, but like Bobby Zimmy, I wouldn’t to work on any Swaggart’s Farm…or *ahem!* see how the…[Read more]

https://www.youtube.com/c/ITAYBENDA

You don’t remember that Enco?

It is in the book of life.

Jim and Tammy did inspire some great videos in the Eighties, (Health warning: Possibly not for the seizure-prone):

Ya know Enco one way you can decipher how F’d up our values are is to observe how sex is more taboo than sadistic violence. In the west in films i think that is the tendency. Oh my what if kids see adults screwing! Meanwhile their churches are talking about eternal torture and torment in hell while their cartoons and tv shows depict v…

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Welp, time to prepare another enema and matchbox coffin.

I missed this a few days ago with the stories of our present mess. All of the PTL scandal of the 70s and 80s happened within driving distance for me:

https://youtube.com/shorts/LrBXg9Q2MuQ?si=V8bKlr88iHwtYYLP

I can’t watch footage of Oct. 7. It reminds me of pics of lynchings of Blacks in USA when the entire population of Christians are entertained by the joyous diversion. There is a rapture about the Palestinian degradation and humiliation of Israelis that illuminates their degenerate ideology.

That video was the only one I’ve seen from O…[Read more]

Yes, I will post the story later. FYI – Sorry, I posted a very recent video of his, not the one he gave in Dublin.

Whenever you can tell the story is fine. And I enjoyed the video of AronRa you posted. He’s absolutely correct about the Christian Nationalist/Christian Reconstructionist/MAGA crowd, even though he’s very naive about “…[Read more]

I saw Sneako for first time recently debating this…[Read more]

Some years later we “went for a Guinness” after this talk. I have a good war story from that one, which I can recount, if you like.

Sure. After seeing October 7 victims, a lighter story is very much welcome.

AronRa is a great teacher when he discusses both biblical criticism, biology, and science in general. There’s so much detail in…[Read more]