danielam

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by danielam 9y ago
In the same way a room becomes conscious the moment a person walks into it.
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by danielam 9y ago
Computers aren't a black box mystery. We understand how they work. We understand that they are implementations of Turing machines (or similar computational models), and Turing machines are by definition a formalism and thus syntactic i
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by danielam 9y ago
I don't know what goatlover meant, and I don't presume you are necessarily arguing this point, but adding sensors to computers does not overcome the fundamental nature of computers I described above.
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by danielam 9y ago
Not clear to me what you mean. I can agree that knowledge ultimately is grounded in sense experience ("the body"). Thus, the knowledge of "Horse" (or "Horseness") must ultimately be traced to sense experience i
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by danielam 9y ago
Can they?
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by danielam 9y ago
I thought the beginning of the interview showed promise, but toward the end the conversation unmoors from the topic at hand. I really do wonder how many in the field of AI take as philosophically unsophisticated of an idea like intelligent
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Type Checking Without Types (2012) [pdf](matthias.benkard.de)
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by danielam 9y ago
The fat man version is indeed similar. Of course, the fat man version is not analogous to the first version of the trolley problem for reasons I gave above.
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by danielam 9y ago
You've confused legal rights with natural rights. Animals don't have natural rights and (generally) don't have legal rights. They're usually legally regarded as property. Anti-cruelty statutes do not presuppose or imply
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by danielam 9y ago
I'm not sure where you get the idea that it is clearly established. It most certainly is not. It sounds to me like you are confusing rights with moral obligations in respect to animals. It is a mistake to think that an absence of righ
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by danielam 9y ago
On a related note, those interested in the origins of the idea of inertia may be interested in impetus theory[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_impetus
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by danielam 9y ago
I think your moral sentiments are misplaced. While it would be nice if people didn't litter, training animals to do something beneficial for us is not immoral as such, and especially not if no cruelty is involved. It certainly isn&#x27
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Why kids need to learn philosophy (2016)(washingtonpost.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
The similarities are only superficial. You have to make careful distinctions. In the trolley example, you aren't choosing to actively cause harm to someone for the sake of the benefit of others. The trolley is going to kill someone. Yo
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by danielam 9y ago
It is not analogous to the Trolley problem. In the case of torture, the question is whether pain may be inflicted on a person to extract information, and in recent public discussion, esp. where known terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (
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Morgan Stanley predicts space industry will triple in size(cnbc.com)
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Researchers invent camouflaged membrane that hides like an octopus(washingtonpost.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
A comparison I might make is that AI fanaticism is like the God-of-the-gaps phenomenon. There's a great deal of ignorance about what intelligence is, what computers fundamentally are, and so on, and some people like to fill that void w
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by danielam 9y ago
I agree that journalism (particularly mass media which followed the invention of rail transportation) has been compromised by advertising. However, I'm not quite certain that subscriptions freed newspapers from advertising since subscr
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by danielam 9y ago
I think this is generally the case for tech companies in the United States and for startups around the world. Personally, I can't name a single tech company where interviewees are expected to wear suits to interviews. If there are any
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How a Language Created by Scientists Is Now Used by the Biggest Companies(forbes.com)
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McGinn on mind and space(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
It's not a simple matter of policy. Culture and civilization are also important. Take the contemporary Western assumptions that democracy is the best political system, the most natural system and one that ought to be implemented everyw
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by danielam 9y ago
Something similar happened w.r.t. the French revolution.
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by danielam 9y ago
And how that wealth is used. The article begins with a dubious premise, namely, that how much wealth a person has is of moral consequence per se AND a matter of public concern. It isn't. (Side note: many people regard any discussion ab
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by danielam 9y ago
I don't accept the paradigm. The problem of qualia is only an issue if you assume a Cartesian account of matter (CM) while dropping his immaterial account of the mind. Descartes assumes that things like color are not properties of mate
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by danielam 9y ago
I never said anything about physicalism or that consciousness requires anything immaterial. I suggest you acquaint yourself with the subject matter. You've only offered us a few uninformed claims and bizarre reactions.
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by danielam 9y ago
You might find "Philosophy of Mind" by Edward Feser interesting.
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by danielam 9y ago
It's important for people to understand the legacy of the Moderns (in this case, Descartes, though others as well, e.g., Locke) and that legacy's detrimental hold over contemporary thought. However, while dualism is a problem, mat
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by danielam 9y ago
Though arguably, FWIW, the meaning of "computer programmer" has also changed.

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