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This has happened to me multiple times as well. Tried sending message to the Board Administrator as instructed. That was rejected as well. Then tried clear PN cookies to no avail. Then restarted my computer and was able to log in. Whoever is the Board Administrator should be seriously embarrassed. T...

This isn’t accidental; it’s engineered to maximize perceived utility, safety, and engagement. This is a key concept that seems to elude you and many others. AI not only aligns with your level of competence, it's also "engineered to maximize perceived utility, safety, and engagement". So w...

The BBC have sent me yet another email demanding that I fill out a long online form declaring that I don't have a TV, don't watch this, that or the other on my laptop or phone, and have no plans to, otherwise I'll have to buy a licence or risk a £1000 fine. And they might send some people round to ...

ME: I notice AI keep up to the level of the user's competence. If user ['child] asked a kindergarten question AI do not provide answer higher than that. If a user ask philosophical realism question [unless specifically asked] AI will stick to the same ideas rather on its own initiative state there ...

Well wind-bag, follow up with showing everyone how you have contributed to humanity, show everyone your work. The issue at hand is your behavior on this thread where you have been accusing me of the very thing that you yourself have been doing not only with me, but with other posters as well. Take ...

Yet somehow, you're the one who has been taking "cheap shots", "wallowing in self pity" - a "proto-man, even proto-human". "Like a stupid animal, you flatter yourself with words" with your extreme narcissism proudly on display not unlike the buffoon that is T...

Can we say myopia. You don't read much history, or you get little out of reading. When, in all of history, has there not been resistance to evolution? See how quickly you drop into self pity and excuses. The reality is that I'm well aware that there has "been resistance to evolution", i.e...

Not all of mankind. Unfortunately, the past decade has shown that many are so against mankind moving forward, that they'll do anything and everything to try to make sure that mankind instead moves backward. Can we say myopia. You don't read much history, or you get little out of reading. When, in a...

A mind has one and only one job to do. A mind has one and only one method of doing that job. Therefore, the chaos in human behavior, the damage and atrocities committed by mankind is because their minds are not doing its own work. Not learning how do do one's own work is a defect which is inherited...

Since there are a number of posters who don't seem to have a very good grasp on the meaning of "moral relativism": ........ (definition)........ As for me, I believe that the idea of "moral relativism" is false. How can a definition be false? Just because you consider moral abso...

Since there are a number of posters who don't seem to have a very good grasp on the meaning of "moral relativism": Moral relativism is the idea that there is no universal or absolute set of moral principles. It’s a version of morality that advocates “to each her own,” and those who follow ...

Although I don’t have a religion, I have a personal philosophy of religion, expressed in the following poem, which acknowledges the existence of God and my relationship with God. Most important of all for me Is You, Lord, my necessity Every gift I have comes from you All the goodness and kindness t...

I have read that chasing happiness chases it away. The more we pursue happiness, the more we don't find it. Does this mean that we have to give up the pursuit of happiness and focus our efforts to something more achievable. In the first place, is happiness worth pursuing at all? Do we have to be ha...

I wonder if you will disapprove when I say that what you wrote can be expressed in religious language. Anyway, here goes: it paraphrases as ' to live with one's guide as the good, the true, and the beautiful is to harmonise with God'. You write "the nature of the creature". Do you agree t...

the natural purpose of something isn’t always just one—it can be more than one. For example, the mouth has two natural purposes (as I know): speaking and eating. Actions that don’t completely oppose these purposes aren’t wrong—like kissing, which is not completely opposite to the mouth’s purpose. H...