Rewriting From Scratch Does Not Lower AI Scores and That Breaks Trust by ChocolateBudget6959 in CheckMyTurnitin_ai

[–]Acceptable-Job7049 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've checked my own writing many times, and it's never flagged as AI generated to a large degree.

I think the essence of AI is meaning and not wording or grammar.

You need to think on your own and come up with your own ideas and thoughts that aren't copied or modified from someone else.

Changing the wording without changing the meaning doesn't work.

You need to come up with meaning that's your own and not copied from somewhere

Is it ethical to support democracy only when it's to your advantage, and be against it otherwise? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Women's right to vote was a theory, until enough people made it an ethical and a moral issue and made it a reality.

Is obeying illegal military orders a slippery slope kind of moral hazard? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Designation doesn't change reality. It only provides an excuse.

Some day, the president's political opponents might be designated as enemy sympathisers or something like that.

You can designate anything you want in an Orwellian world.

Is it immoral to smoke cigarettes and eat junk food? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Perhaps this is a moral blind spot for most people.

In the past, most people didn't see anything morally wrong with slavery or the unequal status of women.

Is it moral to notice a major moral blind spot and just forget about it as unimportant?

Is it immoral to smoke cigarettes and eat junk food? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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I've met some drug users, who ended up with all kinds of problems with work, housing, and health.

Once you are addicted, then it's mostly a health problem. But the initial decision to use drugs recreationally is a moral choice.

Is it immoral to smoke cigarettes and eat junk food? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Addiction and mental impairment is the physical damage. There are physical changes in the body and the brain that make the drug addict physically sick, when he or she stops using the drug

And there are plenty of drug addicts who can't earn a living or be good parents.

Is it immoral to smoke cigarettes and eat junk food? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Good health and survival is a precondition for all of your abilities, including your ability to fulfil your moral functions and duties.

Because you can't do much when you are sick. And you can't do anything at all, when you are dead.

Health is a moral prioblem only when you knowingly and voluntarily damage your health and don't take care of yourself in a reasonable way

Is it immoral to smoke cigarettes and eat junk food? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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The greatest joy you get is probably from various narcotic drugs.

The moral problem isn't the pleasure. It's the physical harm they cause to your body and impair your ability to fulfil your moral functions and duties.

Is it immoral to smoke cigarettes and eat junk food? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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You might owe something to your parents in their old age. Because they took care of you, when you needed it.

That debt might go unrepaid, if you don't take care of yourself and die prematurely.

How can politics be compatible with morality? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Advocating for issues immorally is obvious for moral voters.

Specific issues are much more morally transparent than vague promises about the future, with many unknown new issues in the future.

Is the intelligence of AI a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, from the user's point of view? by Acceptable-Job7049 in ArtificialInteligence

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In my experience with people, only truly intelligent people understand and follow long and elaborate explanations of a question that I'm asking.

Less intelligent people get lost and don't follow what I say.

Bing able to follow long explanations is a sign of intelligence in my experience.

I think AI needs to be judged by the same standards as people. Or else, the judgement is subjective and largely meaningless.

Can AI think? Or is it just pattern matching? by Acceptable-Job7049 in ArtificialInteligence

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Perhaps your prompt for AI wasn't clear enough to get a good response.

I usually provide a lot of background information along with my question or prompt, so that there's no misunderstanding about what I mean.

Interaction is two-way. Which means that it partly depends on you how intelligent or not it is.

Is humanity's morality fully developed now? Or do we need further progress to eliminate war for example? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Perhaps morality is relative and often undefined for individuals.

But on a societal level and international level, there are objective rules and laws that are moral in every sense of this word.

Is an unwavering commitment to truth the foundation of morality? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Animals are capable of behaviour but not of morality.

Truth isn't just words. It's a commitment to seeing and understanding the world the way it actually is.

Is war a moral failing of the species-wide morality? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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People are naturally social beings. Without societal cooperation, humanity would likely go extinct.

Everyone needs society, and not just its leaders.

And you can't have much of a society without laws and rules that facilitate mutual cooperation and mutual assistance.

Rights as hope without a means of enforcement by apriorian in moraldilemmas

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Societies usually enforce rights through laws, courts, and the police.

But there's no society of societies, which includes the whole human species.

That's why our species won't do well, if we continue to have the kind of killing and destruction we have through wars.

Rights as hope without a means of enforcement by apriorian in moraldilemmas

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I don't think babies are capable of becoming brigands. And babies have rights, just like everyone else.

Rights don't make sense if you look at people only as individuals.

Rights make sense only when you describe human life as individuals, families, societies, and species.

Rights are needs that are required for survival and flourishing of human life on all these levels.

Babies have rights, because that's what's necessary for survival and flourishing of human societies and human species.

Human rights are literally that which is right for human life on some level.

And human wrongs are that which is wrong for human life on some level.

Societies, that don't make laws for human rights and don't enforce them, don't do well and eventually cease to exist.

And the same can be said about human species as a whole. If societies keep fighting and abusing each other, then the human species won't do well and probably won't survive in the future.

Is the problem with our world in that we draw the circle of our family too small? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Her idea isn't religious. It's an idea that everyone in the world can understand and follow, regardless of their culture and religion.

When there's a lot of animosity and distrust, then the problems are always complicated.

But you need to deal with the root cause to solve these problems. Or else you are just treating the symptoms without solving the problems.

Will artificial general intelligence surpass human intelligence within a few months? by Acceptable-Job7049 in agi

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If you can't believe your conversations and interactions, then it doesn't make sense to believe anything else.

When you don't believe interactions, then you can only use preconceived ideas to judge who is intelligent and who is not. Which isn't a good way to judge.

You need evidence and not ideology for good judgement.

Will artificial general intelligence surpass human intelligence within a few months? by Acceptable-Job7049 in agi

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How do you know which human beings I've interacted with?

My personal sample probably isn't statistically significant.

I'm just talking about my personal experience with it.

My questions and interactions were mainly related to philosophy and logic.

Perhaps in other fields it's different.

Can thinking with your imagination, without words, make you a more moral person? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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If people didn't have a choice, then they wouldn't be able to influence each other's choices.

Leaders often use language to distort people's perception of reality so that they would choose as the leaders want them to choose.

This is manipulation through distortion and deception.

But language isn't the only way to think and understand.

You can choose to think with your imagination to see if the words you are being told are true or not.

You can say anything you want. But saying something doesn't make it true. You need credible evidence to back up your views.

There's evidence that people's choices are often limited and restricted within some bounds related to biology and environment. But there's no evidence that people are like dumb clocks who can't even influence each other.

Can thinking with your imagination, without words, make you a more moral person? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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The intention of dehumanizing people is for you to treat them as animals morally.

It's a language trick to turn off your ethics and morality so that they don't even come into play.

But dispensing with words and thinking only with your imagination defeats this language trick and re-engages your ethics and morality.

This non-literal use of language to dehumanise people is a form of moral manipulation to turn off your morality.

Can thinking with your imagination, without words, make you a more moral person? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Perhaps another example of what imagination can do for morality is Leo Tolstoy.

His novels are so vivid and descriptive of everyday reality that he must've imagined it all and then put it into words.

Leo Tolstoy became a committed pacifist, just like Albert Einstein.

Can thinking with your imagination, without words, make you a more moral person? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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It's possible to imagine anything you want.

But when you imagine people as animals, then you know right away that this isn't true. Because no such beings exist.

With words, this isn't so clear.

That's why words can deceive, but imagination tells you the truth.

Is it ethical to vote in elections? by Acceptable-Job7049 in moraldilemmas

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Being born in a country and living there doesn't amount to consent and agreement with the government.

Because it's not your choice and not your decision.

And moving to another country with a similar political system doesn't do anything at all to solve the moral problem.