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I think if you have a specific picture you want to post, you could tell me by PM, I could turn on the image posting function for (say) a day and then turn it off again. Your picture would remain visible even after the function was again switched off. Hi Rick,... ...if it's okay with you,... (and as...

What a tempting offer! Yes, I can guess who the gentleman was. In general. I just briefly skimmed the rules set by the UK's Online Safety Act, and it says that it applies to any website with a substantial UK audience, so unfortunately the fact that our server is in Canada probably makes no differenc...

That's helpful. Thanks.

On the whole, I think I'd feel safer with Killer Dwarfs. Yes, Skynet could be exactly what comes next. I was just editing an article for our next issue, and it describes a recent experiment carried out to see whether AIs are developing a sense of self preservation. It did this by placing various AI ...

Thanks, whoever you are, for posting your thoughts. This is really a philosophy forum, not a physics one, but let's not quibble about that. I'm afraid that a lot of what you just posted is unclear to me, despite my own long-ago background in physics. Some of the variables in the data set in your pos...

Partly asking becuase a few years ago in the News pages of Philosophy Now we had a brief report as follows: Autonomous Killer Robots Last year thousands of workers at Google protested at being asked to work on Project Maven (since cancelled) which aimed to use machine learning to improve the ability...

I saw this news story today about a dispute between Anthropic (the company that makes AI products including Claude) and the Pentagon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrq1vwe73po?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb Apparently the Pentagon is giving Anthropic a deadline of Friday to agree that it can...

Well, I didn't think you were going to come and break down the door.

What, because of the server being in Canada? I did wonder about that. When we turned off the image function before, it not only saved us paperwork with the regulator but my fellow mods (as far as I recall) thought it was an improvement anyway. Are you in favour of restoring the ability to post image...

"Bazookia, where the party goes with a bang."

Or maybe Bouzoukia, where all discussions are accompanied by the sound of Greek folk music?

Somebody asked me why the new URL for the forum is Canzookia.com One of the technical problems with the forum last year arose from it being based on the same server as the Philosophy Now magazine website. Consequently when the forum started attracting vast waves of bots, they not only crashed the fo...

Welcome back! Well, for example, there is an online discussion on Zoom every second Thursday night. It is called Midnight Philosophy (because it is held at midnight UK time), and it is pretty good. The moderator Dr Anja Steinbauer gives a short talk on the advertised topic for about fifteen minutes,...

I forgot to mention this - but at the moment there is no possibility for new users to sign up for forum accounts. This function is switched off due to a technical problem, so only existing forum members are able to post here, for now. On the plus side, this gives us a chance to sort a few things ou...

We're going to close and dismantle the Coronavirus Discussions subform sometime in the next week, when I have time. It was a useful feature back in 2020-2021 at the height of the pandemic, but it is barely used these days for obvious reasons, and it looks weirdly old fashioned now to have that as a ...

Go for it Alexis - do answer his question! We are all agog.