Intellectual Stuff: Philosophy, Science, Technology

583 topics in this forum

1. How to determine if an AI machine is sentient?

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   By LSD-Rumi, April 1, 2023
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   • Salvijus
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2. Sam Altman Fired - CEO OpenAI

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   By CARDOZZO, November 18, 2023
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   • Harikrishnan
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3. The brain receives almost no input, maybe none at all.

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   By axiom, June 6, 2022
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   • Nitrobest
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4. What is more ethical to kill: A blue whale or 800000 shrimps?

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   By Jannes, March 23, 2023
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   • Jannes
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5. OpenAi's New Sora Video Generator

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   By VictorB02, February 16
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   • Yimpa
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6. Ethics of robot pain

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   By karltiboleng, April 4, 2023
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   • Roy
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7. Solution to Traffic?

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   By thisintegrated, June 7, 2022
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   • MarkKol
   • July 7, 2022

8. The Most Underrated Philosopher of this Era is

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   By Davino, January 22
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   • Danioover9000
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9. Leo, why don’t you like Kant as a philosopher?

   By Thought Art, April 28, 2023
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   • Reciprocality
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10. Elon Musk Announced xAI - A Tool For Understanding The Universe

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    By CARDOZZO, July 12, 2023
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    • Dryas
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11. Why AI Cannot Kill The Artist

    By Focus Shift, December 17, 2022
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    • Danioover9000
    • December 24, 2022

12. Examples of autism and psychosis as diametrical opposites

    By Carl-Richard, November 29, 2022
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    • Carl-Richard
    • December 5, 2022

13. do paradoxes exist

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    By GLORY, February 22, 2023
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    • Reciprocality
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14. Does Jordan Peterson believe in the afterlife?

    By Nilsi, February 6, 2023
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    • Nilsi
    • February 8, 2023

15. Bad Design With My Computer and the Forum

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    By AndylizedAAY, February 5, 2023
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    • Sincerity
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16. PhD holders waste their potential on teaching

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    By LSD-Rumi, August 3, 2023
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    • Carl-Richard
    • August 8, 2023

17. Resources for thesis on Spiral Dynamics

    By hoherbasti, December 25, 2022
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    • hoherbasti
    • February 20, 2023

18. What would it take for AI to become lively and human-like?

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    By Gesundheit2, January 19, 2023
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    • caspex
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19. The Four Epistemic Naiveties/Pitfalls

    By Carl-Richard, July 8, 2022
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    • Mulky
    • July 11, 2022

20. Leo is similar to teal swan

    By Antor8188, January 8, 2023
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    • PenguinPablo
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21. The Philosophy Iceberg Explained

    By Carl-Richard, July 19, 2022
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    • Carl-Richard
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22. Cool studies suggesting trans people have different brains

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    By Carl-Richard, September 19, 2023
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23. What if Humans didn't develop from apes?

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    By LSD-Rumi, August 6, 2023
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    • Nilsi
    • August 10, 2023

24. For people who think running on a treadmill is different from running on the ground

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    By Carl-Richard, June 19, 2023
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    • supremeyingyang
    • June 23, 2023

25. Do we have free will?

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    By Elshaddai, February 21
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    • ryoko
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26. What is a map?

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    By LastThursday, November 2, 2023
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    • LastThursday
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27. If you had to teach a class in university...

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    By Nilsi, July 17, 2023
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    • An young being
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28. Why idealism is a confused framework

    By Scholar, August 22, 2023
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    • eos_nyxia
    • August 28, 2023

29. HARKing in a bachelor thesis - I feel tormented

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    By Carl-Richard, March 15, 2023
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    • Carl-Richard
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30. Is religion good even if it's false.?

    By Someone here, May 12, 2022
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    • Matt23
    • November 30, 2022

31. How would you recommend to start with philosophy?

    By Lila9, September 27, 2022
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    • StarStruck
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32. Great Art Mega-Thread

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    By LSD-Rumi, August 3, 2023
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    • Yimpa
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33. What is life

    By Cosmin Mihai, December 3, 2022
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    • Eternal Unity
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34. What is the most impotrant question of all time?

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    By Eternal Unity, February 16, 2023
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    • OnePointTwo
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35. Legendary difficulty of Alfred North Whitehead's Process-Relational Philosophy

    By DocWatts, April 29, 2022
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    • Carl-Richard
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36. Why life is better than death?

    By Meskauskas, May 14, 2022
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    • Razard86
    • July 2, 2022

37. Can science make us Immortal?

    By Someone here, July 4, 2022
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    • Danioover9000
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38. Religious beliefs of scientists

    By Oppositionless, December 1, 2022
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    • Carl-Richard
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39. Random vs Chaotic

    By mmKay, May 8, 2022
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    • Nilsi
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40. Leo Why Do you say that Life has No Meaning?

    By SQAAD, July 21, 2023
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    • gettoefl
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41. Dispelling the myth that all AI tools just spoon-feed us answers; nothing is learned

    By Yimpa, April 20, 2023
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    • Yimpa
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42. Room-temperature superconductors invented a few days ago

    By thenondualtankie, July 29, 2023
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    • Leo Gura
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43. How Self-Reference Builds the World - my new paper

    By Cosmin Visan, December 26, 2023
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    • Cosmin Visan
    • December 29, 2023

44. The reason why Stephen hawking was an atheist

    By Someone here, May 20, 2022
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    • Someone here
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45. Using AI to Learn.

    By Realms of Wonder, January 20, 2023
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    • Gesundheit2
    • February 8, 2023

46. Xiaomi phones have become awful

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    By Javfly33, March 24
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    • shree
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47. Is mathematics the ultimate intellectual circlejerk? What was Pythagoras thinking?

    By Husseinisdoingfine, May 7, 2022
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    • Oeaohoo
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48. Leo What Do You Mean We are Entitled?

    By SQAAD, July 25, 2023
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    • Rafael Thundercat
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49. Is there such a thing as universal NOW?

    By Someone here, May 15, 2022
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    • DocWatts
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50. You can literally just ask Chat GPT to give you prompts for midjourney ai

    By Vynce, January 30, 2023
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    • Realms of Wonder
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