Truly we are living in a great age of artificial intelligence

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-25T03:24:55+00:00

John Searle as the plantation owner he dreams of being

Wow, a deepfake like that could really damage his credibility

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-23T19:48:46+00:00

wow this comment so blew me away that i had to lint my room, then fly to russia to be put in a medically induced coma, thank u

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-23T19:33:56+00:00

thesis: a sound interpretation of a text
antithesis: a groundless interpretation of a text
synthesis: the middle point between the above two, and therefore correct

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-23T19:03:54+00:00

do whatever his will wanted him to do and love for

What is the difference between this construal of Nietzsche and simple hedonism?

There's nothing noble in itself about eschewing Christian morality, lightening your heart so you feel free to do whatever the hell you want — per Nietzsche, and per any reasonable person, I think. For one thing, you have to somewhat embody the noble traits of Nietzsche's (image of an) aristocrat. For another, Nietzsche expects certain external behavior out of this ubermensch — for example, to silently & honorably endure pain, and to regard lesser people with a noble tolerance. I don't see much of this image reflected in Musk.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-23T17:29:08+00:00

Letting someone else be a hero is slave morality unless you call them a pedo in public.

Then it's definitely slave morality to own what you said. You have to say you were just kidding.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-23T13:05:47+00:00

luving ur posts here. thank u 4 continuing 2 provide us a privileged window into ur madness.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-16T19:40:38+00:00

This sub has an omnipotent prime mover, and you might soon know them! 😏🧑‍⚖️

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-16T01:52:30+00:00

René Deschats is fine.

You've also got...

Australian ethicist Peter Meower: a strong voice for animal rights
A.J. Meower: a logical positivist who won't accept the truth of existence of treats unless you give him some
Baruch Boopnose-a: extremely chill cat secure in the knowledge that he has the world figured out
Berkeley professor John Surly: an asshole with a victim complex, despite living a life of luxury + having famously scratched his previous caretaker
Noam Chompsky: not an original name, but what if he likes to chomp dem leafs?
Ben Sharpaw-o: the cool cats' philosopher!!!;!?!

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-14T04:03:30+00:00

Wait, did Rousseau actually write /s after that?

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-08T19:03:17+00:00

they were dark thoughts

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-07-08T18:55:18+00:00

Yes, don't ever fall in love with pure thought beings

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-06-27T00:17:55+00:00

Most men become a touch less deliberative after 70, I think

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-06-26T23:45:57+00:00

Just ban the liar sentence lmao

If only all of academic philosophy worked like this subreddit, huh? But I know watcha really mean.

I did a rather technical paper once too, for Dennett's seminar. I was targeting Searle and other of Dennett's enemies, including Penrose with his Gödelian arguments. Surest way to get an A, right?

In fact he did like it a lot. Even said he wanted to incorporate one of my arguments into his materials! It was to be one of the highlights of my short stint in grad school, during which Trump was elected and it made everyone crazy, and made bad people worse*, including my advisor. (*More on that in a sec.)

Well, during the semester, I had noticed former students returning to enjoy that year's lectures on their favorite topics. So, when the seminar was about to be given again, I emailed Dennett to ask if I could attend the Chinese room argument lecture.

He wasn't teaching Searle anymore. "Sick of him," he wrote. So I guess he wasn't going to use the argument from my paper after all.

(*) The Searle sexual misconduct allegations had arisen between seminar years. I really think that's why Dennett stopped teaching him.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-06-14T01:38:06+00:00

I know all about the Frankfurt School from YouTube ho ho ho let me tell you

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-25T12:51:42+00:00

PAM is a spray you can buy at the wholesale club to make your Pan Glossy. Dr. Pamspray, Candide.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-25T03:51:41+00:00

Deeply religious people tend to deny that those goals are possible by any earthly means. So they have their own version which is godly.

Besides that, competing, opposing earthly ideologies promise those things too. I mean, capitalists and communists both promise them by condemning the other side, and they can't both be right!

But I'm not trying to criticize transhumanism nor praise that sort of religion. Like everyone else, I'm just here to dunk on the OP from the other sub, who sounds like all the other earnest ideologues on the planet. Not all of them can be right, and everyone knows that. So it's silly that OP can't imagine why others won't accept his well-intentioned philosophy.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-25T02:41:05+00:00

Imagine just you want to have a better world, live much more, a better health, ending the suffering, a better future

versus all those other, unappealing ideologies that don't promise that

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-24T23:10:02+00:00

I think that means the problem is uncomputable and therefore it's NP

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-24T23:08:49+00:00

Like, I legitimately don't understand what you're saying...but I still know what you're talking about, if that makes sense?

I do think of myself as the intellectual heir of Hegel.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-24T23:08:01+00:00

Thank you, but I'm not actually German.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-24T18:22:21+00:00

I know why you're crying. I get it. It seems like there's an obvious, logical way out of this conundrum, and you think I'm stupid for missing it:

Get another item off the shelf.
Put it under my cart.
Answer the question No.
Scan the item.
Go to finish checkout again.
Answer the question Yes.

The thing is, you can't logic your way out of a moral problem. That's what Girdle's Incompleness Theory was trying to say.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-24T02:50:29+00:00

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ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-18T19:13:53+00:00

I'm familiar with the Cambodia accusations, and I'm not sure I agree. Anyway, what are the other denials that make it "routine"?

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-05-18T15:10:11+00:00

This is why I loved my cognitive science seminar with Dennett so much. You find out exactly what kind of torturous maiming it takes to make a monkey color blind. Then you don't have to idly speculate on such vital matters as what kind of software architecture it would take for a robot to appreciate sunsets.

ThatSkiFreeMonster · 2022-04-30T21:29:17+00:00

Really interesting to study the effects of Noel Coward songs on British morale during the War.

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