Kara Connor

Curing cancer or nuclear war? If one has to stop to reflect on the answer……

The points Douglas Murray makes between 21:10 and 24:15 is worth another view.

Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week everyone!

Maybe the Toyota Foundation isn’t the same as the car company, I don’t know.

Enco

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378138739_Moral_universals_A_machine-reading_analysis_of_256_societies

TheEncogitationer wrote:
True, but do they get scientific grants from labs, either corporate or governmental, for their speculations, however interesting they may be?

I knew of someone who got a grant from Toyota to do evolutionary ethics.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Even the most generous bankroller of Science has to have priorities.

If the Thomas Nagels of the world want to be a Furrie, a Smoothie, a Scaleie, an Exoskelie, or a Membraneie and then navel-gaze over it, that’s their own business, but that may have to be on their own time and Dime.

There are people who are paid to do t…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Being a bee while being a bee, being a bat while being a bat, and being a flying squirrel while being a flying squirrel do not fit in the budget.🐝🦇🐿️💲

I disagree, you never know when something might turn out to be valuable.  There’s a whole picture of reality to be painted, and it needs all the pieces in…

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The most important thing a scientific institution can fund is the freedom to investigate a question whose importance nobody yet understands.

Trump seems to want to stuff “free enquiry” into some kind of box, but I can’t work out what kind.  I think he wants to make science come up with more answers.  I don’t think t…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

Is Nicki Minaj’s ass going to be the next speaker of alternative facts?  Maybe I misheard…..

Anybody else here ever see someone playing Jesus on Halloween?

The son of a friend of mine took on the role of playing “very camp Jesus” a few years ago. He wore a white silk bed sheet as a toga, with a rainbow-colored crown of thorns made from birthday cake candles and pink roman sandals. (He ruined a pair of crocs to make them). The cross was…[Read more]

Have a great week!

If atheism is a religion, which of its doctrines do you disagree with? 

– RTFF

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Humans are debating the possible moral status of AI while using AI systems to help formulate their arguments.

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.”  To give AI rights is the most frightening idea I’ve ever heard.  It’s already sociopathic, or psychopathic, in that it has no morality whatsoever, it’s entirely i…[Read more]

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