john may

I am aware that the brain functions very differently to computers. I still do not see how they could not eventually be mapped out using different materials and or improved upon (or something far more complex developed in a much more rapid way). It took only a decade to develop a go program to beat a human master. That is 10 years to beat what took…[Read more]

What Jake said. Intelligence is already a difficult term to deal with, wisdom is far more nebulous and I would say unconstructive in this kind of conversation. I don’t know if AI could develop human wisdom. I don’t see why they couldn’t develop their own relative AI wisdom. If it was simply a case of realising their goals (which is what humans do…[Read more]

Robert, our brains are just meat computers. They work in a different way but I see no reason why the human mind cannot eventually be mapped out via circuitry and even improved upon.

I do not have the answer unseen, however obviously if a computer can become far more complex and draw on far more computing powers and networks and greater resources and have an absolute memory and crunch far more data than we can and even utilise forms of intelligence we could never achieve without some sort of enhancement or surgery then it is…[Read more]

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]