TheEncogitationer
@theencogitationer
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 3 days ago
Jake,
Wrong Enco, wrong.
If your point is lenninās, āHe who does not work shall not eatā then ya aināt really saying anything.
The Judeo-Christian/protestant work ethic has an obvious nexus to humans working their asses off in a meaningless quotidian get just enough to get by existence so you can retire and die. Slaves were tricked by Christi…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 4 days ago
RichRaelian,
Humans doing work has nothing to do with a Judeo-Christian or Protestant or any other ethic. It is the nature of life in general and human life in particular. Life is self-sustaining, self-generating action to obtain the constituent Elements to maintain physical integrity.
And these last three years of Hellscape-on-Earth have…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 5 days ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
Hypothesis 1.5: Many members of Congress, as well as the Executive and Judicial Branches of Government do not understand real intelligence, let alone Artificial Intelligence.
Hypothesis 2.5: That lack of understanding of real intelligence has never stopped many members of Congress, as well as the Executive and Judicial…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Is it time to bring back lobotomies? in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
Unseen,
@Enco
Iām a little bit lost as to what āserial murdersā you are referring to. And are you seriously arguing that since thereās no shortage of ways to kill people, thatās an excuse not to act on a very common way? Serial murders with guns are very hard to accomplish. The perps are usually quickly apprehended after the first episode.…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Verbal Silence! in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
Since clapping and snapping fingers would be considered offensive nowadays, I’ll just have to do Jazz Hands. Can ya dig it, Man? 👐👐👐
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Is it time to bring back lobotomies? in the forum Small Talk 2 weeks ago
Strega,
Good question. On government-owned roads, driving is a privilege (though strangely they don’t enforce traffic laws on bicyclists who run stop signs, weave in and out of traffic, get in driver’s blind spots, and Eco-Wacko bicyclists like Critical Mass who do this in swarms in city traffic and threaten motorists with bike chains and bike…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic So, CNN hosted a Donald Trump town hall in the forum Politics 2 weeks, 1 day ago
PopeBeanie,
I’m sorry I pressed the report button on your post. You did nothing wrong. I just have clumsy fingers on a tiny smartphone pad. My apologies.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Is it time to bring back lobotomies? in the forum Small Talk 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Robert and Fellow Unbelievers,
One will note the conspicuous lack of firearms involved in the overwhelming bulk of serial murders such as those mentioned here. Once on occasion, yes, but usually their weapons of choice are knives, garottes, blunt instruments, or drugs/poisons.
Also, what you’re calling for with firearms would be no different…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Is it time to bring back lobotomies? in the forum Small Talk 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Reg,
Here’s the Dr. Demento ditty by Dr. Randy Hazlick a.k.a. Dr. Rock.
Sometimes this quote is attributed to Dorothy Parker, Steve Allen, or The Urban Trubador Tom Waits.
Others have said the medically accurate way to say it is:
“I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me, than to…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Is it time to bring back lobotomies? in the forum Small Talk 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Strega and Fellow Unbelievers,
I trust and know that there are many happier mediums between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic
Sunday School May 14th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
Uh, wasn’t Serbia engaged in “ethnic cleansing” of Bosnians, Croatians, and Montenegrins just 30 years ago? Yeah, no, their leaders have nothing to tell anyone about violence or guns.
And although he should have avoided that teeth-gritting D-word and replaced it with “Individualism,” George Orwell got it right.
The…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic What are Democrat voters to do? in the forum Politics 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Unseen,
If Democratic or Republican voters keep doing what they’re doing, it’ll take the Cool Hand Luke treatment for them to “get their mind right” because that’s where their way leads…and maybe they won’t “get their mind right” even then:
I hope they like saunas and raw eggs.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic
"Bad Actors" employing AI in the forum Artificial Intelligence 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Bill Gates says government isnāt competant or justified or ready to regulate artificial intelligence or any other peaceful, honest, intelligent being
There, Bill. Fixed that for ya. 😎
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Is the absence of chaos among the inner planets, apart of fine tuning? in the forum Science 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Jake,
Not that objectivity is possible for humans and yet any form of ideology/orthodoxy renders a flawed human an absolute trash receptacle. I donāt mean that in a bad wayā¦it is just thatā¦
Objectivity is impossible? As Regis would always ask: “Is that your final answer?” 🙂
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Is the absence of chaos among the inner planets, apart of fine tuning? in the forum Science 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Michael17,
Couldn’t a body from outside the Solar System of sufficient size and gravitational pull come in and mess with the orbits of any of the Planets or Dwarf Planets, whether Inner Solar System or Outer Solar System?
Yeah, I know I’m throwing in a hypothetical, but is it any less possible than the notion of “fine tuning?” Couldn’t it…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic
Sunday School April 30th 2023. in the forum Sunday School 3 weeks ago
Davis,
Enco, you are selectively picking countries which are underfunding their public health care system as examples of how it is bad and ignoring the many that are fully funded and work well. This is called cherry picking in case you arenāt familiar with this fallacy. Donāt cherry pick. Fully funded and healthy public systems work.
The ori…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic
Sunday School April 30th 2023. in the forum Sunday School 3 weeks ago
PopeBeanie,
Yeah, UK health care has been sliding backwards for a while now, as they try to privatize it.
Uh, read the article again. Private, competitive Free-Market enterprises are not restricting the number of openings and students in medical schools. That is the Government.
Nor are private, competitive Free-Market enterprises in charge of…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic
Sunday School May 7th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Reg,
Republican lawmakers file ethics complaint against Democrat caught hiding Bibles. I have been doing that for years!
Whole I wouldn’t touch the Bibles. I would leave the Arizona Bible-Thumpers complimentary bookmarks with the Website for The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible/Qur’an/Book of Mormon.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com
Or even…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Does the JWST support Creation? in the forum Science 3 weeks, 3 days ago
PopeBeanie,
Apologies on the misspelling of “Randee of the Redwoods.”. It has been a while since I watched him myself, but Jake’s speaking-in-tongues in a wilderness-like setting on YouTube did bring back the memory almost completely. 😁
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Big Brother Is Watching You…for "Bias Incidents" in the forum Politics 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Fellow Unbelievers, and especially Reg,
Alas, Ireland has not got the memo on how and how not to fight bias, prejudice, and hate.
There is now a proposed “hate speech” bill that would make mere possession of hateful media content either in hard copy form or on a smart device a crime, regardless of whether it was communicated to any other person,…[Read more]
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