Simon Paynton
@simonpaynton
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Woke Movies in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
Unseen wrote:
I have a proposal for a woke TV series. It’s a reboot of The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger is a trans female who’s also a lesbian, which is perfect because her sidekick, Tonto (“slow” in Spanish, BTW) is a black female. They join together to fight for social justice.That would kind of be the intersectional joke version. On the othe…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Woke Movies in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
jakelafort wrote:
However the movement is history repeating itself in terms of human nature. It is my contention that any form of ideology is anathema to reason and the greater good.I guess any zealous ideology can get its competitive purity spirals and its puritans and its thought police. The thing is with wokeism is that it’s justified by…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Woke Movies in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
_Robert_ wrote:
This is the kind of bullshit that ran people of into MAGA land.I think it provides legitimate fuel for them to get pissed off about. But I don’t think they’re rational people in the first place – they don’t necessarily want what rational people want. They’re coming from a completely batshit angle.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Woke Movies in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
I watch a lot of female-led movies or movies about all kinds of people, and they’re great, because they’re about real life. But when it has to be Woke and they lay on the crass stereotypes with a trowel – it’s boring.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Woke Movies in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
Noel wrote:
I’m having a hard time even with the definition to the word WOKE.I think in the context of movies, it means “humourless puritans”.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Woke Movies in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
RichRaelian wrote:
”Inherit the Wind!”Sounds interesting: “The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two polar opposites to engage in one explosive battle of beliefs. “
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Woke Movies in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
Even Star Trek was “woke” (progressive). When the message is rammed down my throat using crass caricatures, I find it all a bit worthy and dull and I switch off. I prefer human stories with some humour.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Threads – Anybody? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
Autumn wrote:
At the end of the day, social media sites all fit an awkward space that borders on paradoxical unless we rethink what social media actually is.Why do you think it’s paradoxical? Because it sinks under the weight of numbers? Reddit looks like it’s in the process of folding up as we speak.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 3 years, 4 months ago
How volatile? lol
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic end of agnostic.com? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 4 months ago
Everything passes.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 3 years, 4 months ago
That’s fine by me, @popebeanie.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 3 years, 4 months ago
I think it’s easy enough to simulate emotions with numbers, (just + and -) but the actual feeling of them is something else that requires consciousness as you say. Animals have emotions and even bacteria evaluate the toxicity of their environment and act accordingly. Awareness comes first: then emotions, then rationality is for explaining…[Read more]
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On bus to SF right now happens to be a service dog nearby, noticing other people and seemingly avoiding eye contact. These (imo) emotion based behaviors always remind me of how deeply in our minds they evolved. And another “feeling moment” now… Just crossed GG bridge.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 3 years, 4 months ago
We could think of feelings or emotions as psychological reactions to threats or opportunities regarding fitness and survival. All the machine has to do is care whether it lives or dies in order to have basic evaluative valence of external stimuli. That’s probably quite easy to program in.
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I assume emotions evolved to enhance survival. But the question of caring whether it lives or dies begs the question as to what are the ingredients to self awareness or consciousness. By feelings i mean sensation and without it i doubt any genesis of consciousness can occur in biology. Whether that is true of AI? No clue. Wouldn’t it be a… -
I think it’s easy enough to simulate emotions with numbers, (just + and -) but the actual feeling of them is something else that requires consciousness as you say. Animals have emotions and even bacteria evaluate the toxicity of their environment and act accordingly. Awareness comes first: then emotions, then rationality is for explaining…
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On bus to SF right now happens to be a service dog nearby, noticing other people and seemingly avoiding eye contact. These (imo) emotion based behaviors always remind me of how deeply in our minds they evolved. And another “feeling moment” now… Just crossed GG bridge.
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Simon Paynton posted an update 3 years, 4 months ago
I get a dispropotionate amount of hits from Ukraine, on my website about morality.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 3 years, 4 months ago
I think we’ve had automatic theorem provers for a long time. That’s reasoning that humans have a hard time with. Awareness? Surely it would have to have instruments connecting it to the outside world.
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Simon i think you will be surprised when the story is told. In any event it makes me wonder about consciousness. Biological awareness started with FEELING. Is feeling inextricably linked with consciousness? Obviously it is in biology. Can it arise sans biology as unadulterated thought?
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We could think of feelings or emotions as psychological reactions to threats or opportunities regarding fitness and survival. All the machine has to do is care whether it lives or dies in order to have basic evaluative valence of external stimuli. That’s probably quite easy to program in.
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I assume emotions evolved to enhance survival. But the question of caring whether it lives or dies begs the question as to what are the ingredients to self awareness or consciousness. By feelings i mean sensation and without it i doubt any genesis of consciousness can occur in biology. Whether that is true of AI? No clue. Wouldn’t it be a…
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I think it’s easy enough to simulate emotions with numbers, (just + and -) but the actual feeling of them is something else that requires consciousness as you say. Animals have emotions and even bacteria evaluate the toxicity of their environment and act accordingly. Awareness comes first: then emotions, then rationality is for explaining…
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On bus to SF right now happens to be a service dog nearby, noticing other people and seemingly avoiding eye contact. These (imo) emotion based behaviors always remind me of how deeply in our minds they evolved. And another “feeling moment” now… Just crossed GG bridge.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School June 11th 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 5 months agoBelle Rose wrote:
more actual data would be amazing.There’s this: “No woman ‘totally straight’, study says”
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 3 years, 5 months ago
You’re right: the little icon isn’t working for me either.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Big Brother Is Watching You…for "Bias Incidents" in the forum Politics 3 years, 6 months ago
RichRaelian wrote:
I’am more concerned about others ease dropping on my conversations and invading my privacy through walls.As a schizophrenic, I used to think people could hear me through walls and I could hear them. But now I don’t.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic ChatGPT, version GPT-3 in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 years, 6 months agoAccording to the BBC Radio 4 programme I put in my “update”, Chat GPT is just a super-sophisticated predictive-text machine, based on what it’s learned from scooting around the (human-built) internet. But clearly, it’s very good at what it does.
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