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Ah well, the hour's getting late.

The "new direction" is here. It has arrived. The United Nations for all its good work cannot change human nature. The "new direction" arrived with the advent of Jesus of Nazareth but human nature has not changed during two thousand years. The "new direction" arrived wi...

Have you tried blaming yourself for shortcomings you could potentially overcome? Maybe then you'll grow and won't make the same mistakes for another 20 years. Atla, it's a shame that you are going to lose out on a deeper level of understanding as to why this knowledge is not a theory or an assertio...

Have you tried blaming yourself for shortcomings you could potentially overcome? Maybe then you'll grow and won't make the same mistakes for another 20 years.

The next thing VA will do is he'll lie to the AI, misrepresenting what was said, now actually agreeing with me and disagreeing with himself.

Ok the guy really is stuck in the 18th century when we had rationalists and empiricists and then Kant. Maybe we should bring back the four elements too. This is getting too stupid. Wow...you really are dumb. Please use AI to speak for you instead. I just said "empiricism is a distinction and d...

Ok the guy really is stuck in the 18th century when we had rationalists and empiricists and then Kant. Maybe we should bring back the four elements too. This is getting too stupid.

I see. Context, context, context...you don't learn do you? I never said the AI was at fault. I said the context you used was at fault, by degree of self-negation. It was not the output...it was the input. The AI is not at fault at all. But to be specific. I don't argue for purely either side. I arg...

Self-contradictory contextual assumption...as usual. Fluid premise. You cannot prove or disprove self-referentiality and linear regress are created constructs of the mind without creating a definition of "system" itself that follows the same course. Dually you cannot say such constructs a...

Self-contradictory contextual assumption...as usual. Fluid premise. You cannot prove or disprove self-referentiality and linear regress are created constructs of the mind without creating a definition of "system" itself that follows the same course. Dually you cannot say such constructs a...

Different premises: Is the following take problematic, because self-referentiality, infinite regresses, recursion, self-justification are features of abstract systems we create, but aren't known to occur in the concrete world? Summary only. Here is the take: Gödel Level 6 Incompleteness theorems, re...

I don't care, I only read the first few paragrahs of your OP as I usually completely disagree with your premises, so I don't care what funny house of cards you build from them. Oh I know, an AI has to say it: Does the following text use the relative, circular nature of human thinking as an excuse to...

Remains to be seen, I intend to find out if I get the chance.

In the end, exploring those positive and negative states/realities is inconsequential imo, at least for everyday life in our current world. I gradually stopped doing it too. We don't talk about this stuff. Whether they would also be inconsequential under certain vastly different circumstances, remai...

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:27 am "Attention is the potential from which the actual unfolds."


Discuss.

What if another person with attention wants the opposite thing and the two attentions conflict (equal attentions at the same level of reality, in case there are levels to reality)?