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Unseen, i was not contemplating drones or addressing anything beyond speech. Also this general idea only occurred to me this morning so it may have more chincs than a primitive shelter on naked and afraid. And no doubt introducing the notion of AI in connection with speech would be met with many criticisms including the slippery Orwellian hill.

Autumn i assume you are thinking of the pandemic.

My guess is that left leaning people would embrace empiricism. On the other hand i think the idea is too radical to gain acceptance except in a tiny minority. For the most part those of us who value rationalism and strive to be reasonable would find a good way to critique the reliability of…[Read more]

Here is an idea.

It is time to introduce AI into the arena of free speech. In terms of hate speech allow the algorithms to determine the probable impact of hate speech. We program the AI to determine what level of probable harm is acceptable and what level is unacceptable. The AI acts as an arbiter of prior restraint utilizing its intelligence…[Read more]

It depends on who is telling the lies…

Anyone know whether natural immunity plus vaccine is better than either standing alone?

Short and sweet Davis. Left me with nuthin to add…

Another anomaly in my area is the timing of ripeness of fruit. It has changed dramatically in the last 5 or 6 years.

Black Berries, raspberries and blue berries and even apples i noticed last year are on different ripeness schedules by a month to a month and a half. That is almost surely related to climate change. And maybe trees are too…

Reg, no logging here. The distribution of fallen trees seems pretty consistent throughout the woods irrespective of altitude or anything else (not much of that here unfortunately Western Ma and Ct) And lots of trees snap in the middle. And they seem perfectly healthy. I have no idea what is causing it.

Not sure this qualifies as crazy shit.

I am in the woods hiking a great deal. In the last two years the number of trees that have fallen is increasing at an alarming rate-so much so that i am half listening for trees creaking or cracking as i go along..

Some of the trees are uprooted. Some break in the middle. I haven’t the foggiest the cause. I…[Read more]

I don’t understand the enmity towards squirrels. I find em fascinating. Super athletic, crafty and industrious. Brain size may be a nut but it is brain to total body mass as one measure of capability.

Robert you can perhaps make a shit load if you can create a good squirrel discourage mechanism to sell commercially. Cant remember exactly but…[Read more]

The following science news has the potential to give the immortals and the spiritual folks a turbo boost.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220407100956.htm

Autumn: Sure. Or compare it with words like ‘queer’ in the context of sexual orientation or ‘partner’ in the context of romantic relationships. Both terms frequently draw value from their lack of specificity and resistance to deeper categorization or sometimes even clarity, which in itself can be meaningful.

If, personally, ‘spirit…[Read more]

I am feeling a spiritual rabbit hole is upon us.

So dispirited that it is time to play a Negro Spiritual that not only nails the zeitgeist of a people and time but captures my saturnine spirit.

Yeah Belle, we do!

This is a great forum even though there are so few contributors to have our ideas challenged. Atheist Zone gives no quarter!

Belle:

Words are always meaningful, but they must be analyzed in the proper context of what the original speaker is trying to say and to what audience. Any single individual word cannot be examined by itself. You alway must look at the meaning of the entire thought the speaker or writer is trying to convey.

No argument context is valuable. The…[Read more]

6 second skim from Belle Rose and the following language: There is no single, widely agreed-upon definition of spirituality.
No surprise there…

Kind of amazing there has been so much discussion of the word spiritual, init? Frankly i am surprised.