Jim

_Robert_ wrote:
We do know that quantum mechanical systems are not deterministic but are instead probabilistic. That may give us the idea that we have free will when actually your decisions and choices have probabilities.

I don’t buy that.  It’s too direct contact between different levels of reality: psychological and quantum reality.  I think i…[Read more]

We don’t know. We do know that quantum mechanical systems are not deterministic but are instead probabilistic. That may give us the idea that we have free will when actually your decisions and choices have probabilities. For example, if you are a complete dumbass, you are more likely to vote for Trump, but for some reason you managed to vote for Harris.

Even the great overlord, AI?

Here’s a take on freewill.  The perception is one of (limited) freedom of choice at any one moment.  This perception is a conscious perception.  This conscious freedom of choice can be further limited or shaped by subconscious factors.

Yet the background physical substrate upon which perception and consciousness “l…[Read more]

🙂 Even A.I. sees no freewill .

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Is that two AIs talking to each other? Yes…..and they are talking about us! 🙂

Chess match between two supercomputers:

Computer 1: Pawn to King 4

Computer 2: Resigns

Had some sort of mental breakdown and now he’s running a church. Maybe Trump will appoint him as his spiritual advisor.

We heard it here first!

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I was intrigued by that video but i can’t help wondering if it is authentic.

If it is and it’s drawing on external information and making value judgments and conclusions about human endeavors then…

Then what? Well i suppose it presages a form of intelligence that will take precedence over all humans. AI or alien intelligence citing that…[Read more]

Had some sort of mental breakdown and now he’s running a church. Maybe Trump will appoint him as his spiritual advisor.

We heard it here first!

Simon Paynton wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How Jordan Peterson fooled young men into thinking he’s the world’s smartest man.

I don’t know what to think about Jordan Peterson. I admire him for standing up to the woke bullies about free speech. I think his “rules for young men” probably have done a lot of good. Beyond that, he has said…

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I was going to write something about JP’s new book but it is not worth it.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How Jordan Peterson fooled young men into thinking he’s the world’s smartest man.

I don’t know what to think about Jordan Peterson.  I admire him for standing up to the woke bullies about free speech.  I think his “rules for young men” probably have done a lot of good.  Beyond that, he has said some apparently misogy…[Read more]

Is that two AIs talking to each other?

Yes…..and they are talking about us! 🙂

“This is a great video.”

Is that two AIs talking to each other?

Thanks, Reg!

That freaky Kennedy piece-o-shit will cause many unnecessary deaths. I view him as a mass murderer. It only takes a thin layer of bullshit to fool my average pathetic, hapless, clueless boomer cohort and many zoomers as well. Diseases such as measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio and smallpox will make their triumphant return if that asshat…[Read more]

Have a great week!

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce.

Pope’s take: I have empathy for Hamas’s and other terrorist’s kids. Some Palestinian adults are also innocent victims, like gays who need to keep their mouths shut or be executed. But those students too easily ignore the horrific nature of terrorism.

I agree. What would it matter the identity of the Palestinians in Gaza living in a degenerate cul…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
AI will control us by 2034? That is absurd. Humans are discerning, have free will and make decisions for themselves!

There is no free will. Just like billiard balls, their actions (and thoughts) emerge inevitably from the antecedent conditions going on in their nervous system and mind, many of these antecedents beyond their…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I like the distinction he makes about humans v AI with the former having free speech and the latter not.

Yes, I forgot to mention that! If only I had an AI implant… Oh, what I could do to for the world.

I have empathy for Hamas’s and other terrorist’s kids. Some Palestinian adults are also innocent victims, like gays who need…[Read more]

Pope,

So many threats to civilization!

I like the distinction he makes about humans v AI with the former having free speech and the latter not. If i understand algorithms to date they are essentially businesses influencing consumers of information to be in Plato’s cave and see those shadows. And i suppose there are nefarious actors attempting…[Read more]