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Of course it will impede science. What happens when AI starts messing things up? AI researchers will find that their AIs are messing up their lives and their experiments as well. Already gone public. Millions of people are already using AI. AI is learning through data sets based on what people...

It was hot enough that most days, I felt like it was too hot to leave the house for long.

I had thought about that for a while. The test doesn't give people less marks for getting things wrong. So it isn't a good test for mission-critical situations. The test is also timed. So it isn't a good test for situations where you have plenty of time to figure out a good answer. It's...

It was very hot. Not the hottest I've ever experienced. But pretty hot. Even last week, we were having sunny days most of the week, and it's the middle of September. The meteorologists were predicting thunderstorms over Friday and Saturday. There was a big storm, but not till last night, which...

You both might be interested in this: I was in my 20s during the 90s, and was in university in the mid-90s. 1) In theory, what you are saying would be accurate. In practice, during the 90s, there was a lot of "gay villages" in cities like New York and Manchester, anywhere where there was a...

Consider, though, you don't want bias and prejudice affecting things negatively. Imagine if Aussie tourists got a reputation of being trouble-makers on holiday. Now, every time you leave the country, and someone in your hotel loses something, the police always come to your room, and search it...

OK. I was hearing from a BIPOC friend today, how the police picked on him every day. What I do recall, was during the George Floyd riots and the BLM protests, that the IPCC carried out its own investigation of the police. It had 2 findings: The police were overly aggressive/violent with...

I have a lot of problems that way. It's not you. That sounds about right. There are other issues the government needs to deal with, like managing immigration properly, managing the employment market and making sure that everyone has a job, and ideally, the job of their choice, and many other...

I try to not take stances. I've been struggling to compose an answer. But I wrote an answer to a similar question from a different poster on a different site, and I think it might suffice here as well: None.

Poverty refers to how much money you have. The things you are referring to, such as that they live, they have homes, they have jobs, they have families, they have clean clothes, they have self-respect and respect in their communities, would probably all fall under Maslow's hierarchy of needs...

I'm in agreement with you that most Brexiters are normal, rational, sane people, who were just voting for their country, because there are a lot of issues that need addressing and were not being addressed. I'd say theat a majority voted for Brexit. But given the heinous crimes involved in these...

Those are all issues that middle-class left-wing people would identify with. But they're not the people at these protests. Yes. But that sounds very much like someone saying not all Nazis are evil. I don't think that most people would believe them. Do you? Yes. But that ramps up fears about...

Yes. That's what the left-wing keep telling people, that people should treat other people the same. But they clearly treat left-wing people differently to right-wing people, treat BIPOC people differently to white people, treat women differently to men, and treat LGBT differently to non-trans...

Stalin got extreme. Hitler got extreme. They were just protecting their friends, family, property and themselves.

That is how I am seeing it. It's a description of what matters to you. Yougov polls reported that since 2,000, young people have been stating that the 3 things most important to them, are their friends, their family and themselves.

As long as the other people also don't, so they can't use them against me either. Also, as long as I have at least one blacksmith in my in-group, then I can get locks and guns and use them to kill my enemies.

Lots of people think the best way is to have more locks, more guns, more power, and to take away any possibility of poer being held by anyone who might challenge you and disagree with you in public.

The point of co-operation is to co-operate, to act more like the cells in the human body, They work for the whole and achieve much more as a result, by being much more efficient when fulfilling the goals of the whole, than they would be when only working for themselves. They do this, by looking...

But it still won't protect your individual rights, because then you'll have to give up some of what is your property now, and some of what you expect will be your property in the future, to co-operate. So to value co-operation, you have to move away from "primal ethics", and understand why your...

What is most useful for each person, is dependent on their circumstances. It's the same for you when you are in circumstances and they are in circumstances that are IDENTICAL. It's usually different when you are in different circumstances, even when they are insignificant (to you). As a result...

Fi-doms CAN talk about Ti. But Ti doesn't work like Fi. Fi: "My arm is on fire. That's bad. Put it out" Ti: "My arm is on fire. Is it really on fire? Check the temperature first, before putting it out. If the temperature read above 100C, it's too hot. Put it out. If the temperature is below...

What have they all in common? Protect MY body. Protect MY family. Protect MY stuff. Translation: F**k the world. F**k humanity. I only care about ME.

True/False is a Ti-thing. Ethical/Unethical is an Fi-thing. Keep to what you are good at. But you are talking as if you're saying they are unethical, when your argument is about if their views are true or false. They are different types of judgements, that work differently. In some situations...

That's an argument, not a question. Sounds like you are trying to convince yourself. Who exactly are you trying to persuade?

That bit is also spin. Be more than a mite embarrassing for politicians, if people believed that spin controls politics. But it's not untrue. Since the rise of spin, it's become so ubiquitous, that pretty much every company, organisation and government agency is full of spin. Forums, and...

Spin Beeing going on since the 1990s, and probably before.

We also had riots over the killing of Stephen Lawrence and Damillola Taylor, 2 BIPOC people who were killed by the police. During BLM, when American police were being threatened with defunding the police to stop BIPOC men being killed by racist cops, the British police did their own...

The main reason for the global financial crisis in 2008, was because the banks lost trust in each other and stopped lending to each other. Banks have to have 10% of their loans in cash on the site, and so occasionally need to borrow some cash from the other banks in order to keep lending. So...

Yes. 1) What this means, is that people don't learn overnight. If you tell someone something once, they are unlikely to remember it. If you tell someone the same thing day after day, people tend to remember it. If you show someone how to do something once, they are unlikely to remember it...

Statistics for data sets involving millions of people, is subject to the Law of Large Numbers, which eliminates random subjective biases, such as if an individual is more gullible. Any data is indicative of objective biases (external pressures that make people more or less likely to believe in...

Either the test results are wrong, or you are an INTJ. This is very common. Most descriptions of INTPs is really that of someone with low self-esteem. Most descriptions of INTJs is really that of someone with an over-inflated self-esteem. So when INTJs are young, if they are also lacking in...

No. "Know" or "Be sure" would mean 100% true. It's a type of modal logic. "Believe" means "thinks is probable, likely", e.g. when someone says he believes his son is at school. He isn't sure. But be reckons he is, because he usually isn't sick and usually isn't playing truant. It's a type of...

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Theists usually self-identify as Sikhs, or Muslims, or Jains, or Hindus, or Jews, or all sorts of other things, and agree that they also fall under the general umbrella of theists. They have their own languages, their own dress style, their own dishes, their own lifestyle, and even which...

Only in countries whose most popular religion has been a monotheistic deity. In places like India, the majority of theologists are probably Brahmins studying Hinduism, which, IIRC, is polytheistic. The word theist means "one who believes in the existence of one or more deities." So logically...

I am unconvinced of your claims. Since you have claimed that there is no argument required to be unconvinced, you cannot argue against my viewpoint. So your argument is defeated by itself.

Almost. Anything that is totally infinite, without any boundaries, would also be without boundaries in space, and thus would exist either everywhere or nowhere. If nowhere, the object would not exist in the first place to be totally infinite. So if a totally infinite being exists, it would...

Omnipresence = "it is everywhere" => "everything that is anywhere is in it"

Soldiers would probably spend a lot of time screwing each other.

So you found a thoughtful thread that lasts all of 5 posts, and whose subject matter is "Does everything have a reason?"? In your universe, does 1 semi-thoughtful thread out of hundreds of thousands of threads, means that "there's not many thoughtful posts" would be incorrect?

I am describing what would be the case in your hypothetical reality where everyone did as they ought. But clearly, that's not the case, because people don't always do that. Sometimes people absorb somewhat noisy sensory data, test it, think about it, test it again. But quite often, they don't...

Then where's the proof?

No, it's not. Some things show the property of being unfathomable, due to their nature that however much you contemplate them or experience them, there's always more to know, understand and experience. Some of those things are phenomena like computing and dance. Some of those things are noumena...

A "first cause" would be G-d. Atheists reject the notion of a Prime Mover, and so reject the idea of a FIRST CAUSE.

I agree that we SHOULD test what we believe, and think about what we see that contradicts that. If you and everyone else did that, then you'd be in agreement with everyone on all those things that can be known via testing and thinking.

Everything.

If we just accepted what we saw and heard, we would never have tried to do anything like that.

I was asking if YOU understood EVERYTHING, all of human history, all of science, biology, everything you see and everything you know, as if it was examples of a Grand Unified Field Theory that you came up with. Does it all make sense to you?

We can estimate. But we cannot be certain. A big round yellowish fruit may be an orange, or it may be a grapefruit.

I didn't say anything about noumenon.