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I don't agree. First off, just because definitions are fuzzy, doesn't make them arbitrary. And the boundaries between words may be fuzzy, but the consequences

I don't agree. First off, just because definitions are fuzzy, doesn't make them arbitrary. And the boundaries between words may be fuzzy, but the consequences of these fuzzy definitions can have severe consequences. Race is a social construction, yet its definitions, fuzzy as they may be, have had huge consequences and shape the world we see today just by them existing. If we consider AI to be sentient, then that means we can leap and subscribe certain rights, which have legal consequences (For example, is AI "learning" fair use because it's learning like a human and is sentient). Profoundness or not, these are very important discussions to have, and are certainly meaningful to discuss, even if these terms can not be neatly defined.

corethree 3y ago
Meaningful to discuss in the context of law, rules, rights and regulations. Not meaningful to discuss in a universal context. As in where did we come from? How did the universe form? What is the nature of reality? The question is not profound in this sense as it is just a categorization problem. From this perspective they are arbitrary. Of course categorization is very meaningful in other contexts like the ones I listed in my first paragraph. But you have to realize that you're getting into stuff like law, literature, poetry, ethics and things that are arbitrarily given meaning because we are human. Questions in this area are not profound nor meaningful from the "universal context" which is the frame of my point and this branching thread.
corethree 3y ago
Meaningful to discuss in the context of law, rules, rights and regulations. Not meaningful to discuss in a universal context. As in where did we come from? How did the universe form? What is the nature of reality? The question is not profound in this sense as it is just a categorization problem. From this perspective they are arbitrary. Of course categorization is very meaningful in other contexts like the ones I listed in my first paragraph. But you have to realize that you're getting into stuff like law, literature, poetry, ethics and things that are arbitrarily given meaning because we are human. Questions in this area are not profound nor meaningful from the "universal context" which is the frame of my point and this branching thread.

corethree 3y ago

Meaningful to discuss in the context of law, rules, rights and regulations. Not meaningful to discuss in a universal context. As in where did we come from? How did the universe form? What is the nature of reality? The question is not profound in this sense as it is just a categorization problem. From this perspective they are arbitrary. Of course categorization is very meaningful in other contexts like the ones I listed in my first paragraph. But you have to realize that you're getting into stuff like law, literature, poetry, ethics and things that are arbitrarily given meaning because we are human. Questions in this area are not profound nor meaningful from the "universal context" which is the frame of my point and this branching thread.

corethree 3y ago