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LLMs will never be able to tell us what it’s like to be human.  The philosophy I do is all descriptive, so it means reporting on what humans do and how they think, and painting a picture that purports to be factual.  The only checking required is that the arguments are thorough, that they answer questions satisfactorily, and that they’re c…[Read more]

Reg and Simon:

Will artificial intelligence change how philosophy is conducted?

While I would never want to farm out philosophy to AI or any other intelligent being, once they have a level of intelligence equal to or exceeding humans, they can all be partners in better understanding concepts in Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Political…[Read more]

Jake:

“I have to praise you like I should” since you pay more attention to writing than Turning Point-ers* pay attention to their own Bibles.

But Turning Point-ers are too busy reading The Daily Mail’s latest…[Read more]

Jake:

Enco,

“If TPUSA comes to your town, Please, I abhor you:”

Reimagine that sentence. I implore you.

Great catch! ⚾

A little ‘Inside Baseball” from a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000:

Whenever Joel and/or the Bots are making an empassioned plea, They’ll always say: “Please, I abhor you…”

One of their many humorous tics of spe…

Fellow Unbelievers:

Evidently, the Turning Point-ers like eating parts of living beings like the Zombies of George Romero movies or like The Reavers of the Firefly/Serenity franchise, not to mention a-robbin’and a-stabbin’and a-lootin’ and a-shootin’:

‘Awkward’: TPUSA event with Jewish speaker sparks hateful MAGA…[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]

Reg:

World of Woo: How pseudoscience is duping football.

If they want to stop dementia. maybe a good place to start is not sitting in a deep-freeze, but instead not deliberately hitting the soccer ball with their heads. Repeated head blows don’t do boxers any good! So why would they be any good for soccer players?

At least with U.S.…[Read more]

Reg:

Sorry, but I just had to post this.

I’m not eating anything from that bucket after Jim Bakker ate from the ladle, gagged a little in his mouth, and dipped the ladle back in the bucket, especially since Jim Bakker also hawks some bogus cure for COVID-19!

And Tubby singing a cover of “My Girl” in praise of The End Times is just cringe-y.…[Read more]

Jake:

Rutgers. This is my gun, this if for fun on the brain? Rutgers it is. Can’t refer to the misspelling as a typo since it is a missing character. Failure of compression omission.

As manic as I can be about correcting my spelling, errors can still be fun. The Rugers/Rutgers confusion was too good to resist.

Never formally studied logic. H…

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Jake:

You popped my explanadum/explanans cherry. How did i never encounter this for 63 miserable years? What else is lurking in the shadows?

My explanandum/explanans cherry (metaphorically speaking) was busted 40 years ago on the (metaphorical) shoulders of giants, namely Introduction to Logic byIrving Copi and Logic and Philosophy by Howard…[Read more]

Jake:

And here are a few quotes or near quotes that stuck with me.

“Jews are destroying what you value most.”

Some Jews at their best can destroy things that shouldn’t exist, like ignorance, disease, poverty, and tyranny.

Some Jews at their worst destroy things that should prevail like enlightenment, health, prosperity, and fre…[Read more]

Jake:

Yea mythology origin stories have commonality in how inward looking they are. Jews are no different and their YawYaw, woops (not to be confused with Yaw Yaw Sinwa) was not initially as i understand it conceived as a singular god. One of many but a jealous one. Just a jealous one.

So I’ve read and heard, the ancient Hebrews had both Yahweh…[Read more]

Jake:

Great and thoughtful video! Antisemitism is truly a perverse parsimony for those unhinged to reality, where the explanandum has little to nothing to do with the explanans.

Jake:

Yep Enco.

You corrected my rememory of the sinnah.

If you wanna learn something this lady has some fresh viewpoints that make sense to me.

So Jews am who they am and that’s all what they am? Ak-yuk-yuk-yuk! Well blows me down!

“A joinable tribe with a common history, homeland, and culture.” I can dig it.

So does this mean they made…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Here WBT 1110 AM, the Charlotte Conservative talk radio station, uses the morning news program to remember the “complicated” legacy of Jim Bakker and PTL. (To avoid beginning falderal, start listening at about 29:00.)

Good Morning BT | Jim Bakker Dead at 86 | The Complicated Legacy of…[Read more]

Reg:

I think a bucket is a more appropriate coffin for Bakker than a matchbox.

A bucket would be good for Jim Bakker, especially after the flock of sheeple wake up to the fact that they can easily preserve their own food and probably more to their own tastes and dietary needs.

They could buy a dehydrator or an air fryer with a dehydrator mode…[Read more]

Here’s another one from 1983, Martin Briley “Just Put Your Hands on the Screen” that could either be a parody of either Peter Popoff or Benny Hinn:

Jake:

You might be thinking of Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, The Other White Sepulcred Meat™:

Pop-Up Video Factoid: There is a sausage brand and company called Swaggarty’s Farm. Unknown if was an enterprise of his, but like Bobby Zimmy, I wouldn’t to work on any Swaggart’s Farm…or *ahem!* see how the…[Read more]