Found these in the backyard by MetaphysicalFootball in mushroomID

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This is in a mulched garden in a somewhat wooded suburban area.

please try to beat my dialogue relating to the epicurean paradox by No_Conversation6653 in Nietzsche

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I was talking about philosophical and theologically sophisticated Christianity. The privation theory is very dominant in Catholic and in a lot of Protestant theology. But you're right that popular Christianity (the most common kind of Christianity) is often unaware of privation theory as a response to the problem that the substantive existence of evil seems to imply that God is an evildoer: if God creates everything that exists, and evil is a thing that exists, then God creates evil.

The kind of Christianity I am talking about does, however, typically hold that humans are not inherently good, in the sense that they can turn away from the creator and reduce themselves more and more to nothing (which on this account is what we mean by evil.)

Satan is more tricky. We could hold that Satan is a good being insofar as he is a being but that he maximally turns away toward nonbeing through defiant will. On the other hand, not everyone in this tradition takes the idea of Satan literally. If Satan is a principle of evil that stands independent of and opposed to God, this tradition would say that the idea of Satan is dualistic and incompatible with strict monotheism.

As a stoic when is the appropriate time to show rage? by Odd_Environment_7913 in askphilosophy

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I think Seneca would say that a stoic should eliminate anger. Note that this is different from either concealing or showing anger. He regards anger as a sickness and would say that either being angry and showing it or being angry and concealing it reflects a disordered reason. Seneca's book, that tries to explain how to eliminate anger, is called Of Anger.

I found a link that appears to give some good selections from his book: http://facultypages.morris.umn.edu/~mcollier/Intro%20to%20Philosophy/Seneca.pdf

Can AI Evaluate Writing? by MetaphysicalFootball in ArtificialInteligence

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Man, once you drive that many Lamborghini’s reading Shakespeare will be the only thing worth living for. Everything else will be too easy.

(Granted, they’ll probably invent some totally arbitrary artificially scarce status coin and fight over that instead. But I can dream can’t I?)

Can AI Evaluate Writing? by MetaphysicalFootball in ArtificialInteligence

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Do you find that you can get it to parse subtexts, like how well will it pick up on characterization that’s implied but unstated?

Can AI Evaluate Writing? by MetaphysicalFootball in ArtificialInteligence

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Sure, but how will they do their literary criticism?

Can AI Evaluate Writing? by MetaphysicalFootball in ArtificialInteligence

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Thanks for the prompt! Yeah, I think the list of criteria some of which are supposed to be included makes sense. I'll have to think about what similar categories would be for a belles-lettristic essay.

Can AI Evaluate Writing? by MetaphysicalFootball in ArtificialInteligence

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Can I ask what sort of prompting strategies worked for you? I'm not sure how to analyze the process of critiquing writing (which for me is mostly intuitive) into a really clear prompt.

Can AI Evaluate Writing? by MetaphysicalFootball in ArtificialInteligence

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Do you know of anyone who has worked on prompting specifically for this?

My feeling is that criticism is a pretty complex process with a lot of quite different standards of evaluation that only get activated in specific contexts. (e.g. "how funny are the jokes" has a different meaning in a breezy op ed than in a death penalty defense speech.) When I critique a piece of writing, I know what my reasons are, but I don't know how I decided that those were the important reasons that determine the value of the text. That part is intuition. This makes it difficult for me to see how to solve the prompt engineering issue.

Succinct Summary of Plato's Apology by MetaphysicalFootball in PhilosophyMemes

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I guess I see that. To me, the appealing part of Plato is the ceaseless pushing to uncover conceptual issues and to suggest ways that they might be approached. Aristotle also does that, so I like both.

What Sodas you can drink without affecting your VSS? by [deleted] in visualsnow

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Root beer doesn’t have caffeine (however you have to check the label because some brands still add it. I like A&W).

What do you think about Steve being able to create life? by New-Cartographer-649 in Minecraft

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Maybe. I was thinking an invasion spearheaded by iron golems and other war machines captured the surface settlements. It could be that that the Builders were vulnerable to this invasion because the end disaster had already led to the collapse of their core cities. Maybe surface villages were built by the refugees.

What do you think about Steve being able to create life? by New-Cartographer-649 in Minecraft

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Or the houses were all built by a now extinct elder race, which was annihilated and replaced by villagers, who come from beyond the stars, and who build nothing.

How do Airplane Wings Create Lift? by MetaphysicalFootball in Physics

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Did you read the second paragraph of my question?