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]

Congress’ only humanist sounds the alarm on Christian nationalism. If only there were more “common-sense Republican focused on solving problems, not creating more division”.

The ‘Pray to Play’ policies infesti…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
can philosophy become more scientific without confusing logical certainty with empirical truth?

I would not go near AI to help me with philosophy, beyond a Google search result.  But if people do want to use it, I can see uses for it – checking reasoning, for example.

I think there should be two tasks, done by…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
can philosophy become more scientific without confusing logical certainty with empirical truth?

That’s an interesting way of looking at it.  Michael Tomasello, for example, is someone who does a lot of philosophy referring to a lot of experimental results.  That’s why I trust his ideas enough to give them the time o…[Read more]

Atheism, n. The refusal to surrender one’s sense of humor to an imaginary audience.

Canada’s religious revival that never came to be. The study shows that cultural religious identity can persist long after active religious participation declines.

Does secularization represent increasing rationality, or can it simply involve replacing…[Read more]

IMO Marc Elias has done more, in every state’s court, to fight and debunk Trump’s…[Read more]

I will now be deleting the files from my web space.

So, the same files are available at DropBox:

The third man syndrome

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032s9x

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]

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]

Should public funding be available for religious instruction, and…[Read more]

I can confirm that AronRa is “woke” in t…[Read more]

Enco, that’s interesting.  I think you’re right.  It sometimes doesn’t take much to start hallucinating.

Left-click – play.  Right-click – download.

Here’s a BBC Radio 4 programme that was on yesterday, on the subject.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0032f9

“Just because I might post an interesting article does not mean I agree with it. Which side would you like me to argue from?”

“None” is not synonymous with atheist. Combining atheists, agnostics and people who simply don’t belong to a religion can obscure considerably more than it reveals. The dataset has been made publicly available, so I expect some interesting papers to emerge from this.

The Dep…[Read more]

AI is already able to design human gene-editing processes, with abilities to edit any other species on the way, including pandemic-enhanced…[Read more]

But he kept “rigged elections” as a theme, created several…[Read more]

No argument with that Jake.

When it comes to tautologies, either I’m being pedantic, or I’m not being ped…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
If not, then it is merely freedom for whichever religion controls the State.

Or, whichever state controls a religion.