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Quantum indeterminism has nothing to do with free will. I was just saying that there is a sense in which reality is indeterminate, but that has to do with the way scientists analyze measurements of certain physically recorded events. Humans interact with events under a condition of...

If the world were not deterministic, then compatibilism would be irrelevant by definition. There is a sense in which we do live in a nondeterministic world--quantum indeterminism. However, we interact with reality at a level of events in which experience tells us that causality works and we...

But you are agreeing with me up to a point. See the bolded sentence above. I would only say that you ought to replace the underlined portion--"seems to be"--with "is" and that you accept a concept of "free will" in which ignorance and uncertainly are critical components of its meaning. We...

Hi, Bruce. Welcome to Internet Infidels! This has been a very long thread, and I had that exchange with DBT back in 2024. There was a lot of discussion after that post. Basically, my position is that participants in debates such as this often equivocate on more than one sense of the meaning...

It was based on a need to justify a very expensive failed mission. Otherwise, Donald Trump's Saturday night victory speech gets "completely and totally obliterated." The report was classified top secret, but this is the Trump administration. They have new standards for handling classified...

I love this Russian troll video comparing what Trump was imagining he saw and what others saw.

I'm not really impressed by your references to vectors and tensors, which don't really explain anything other than your acquaintance with those mathematical and computational concepts. As data structures, they can be used to program simulations of intelligent behavior, but they don't give you...

You could just do some reading on the subject and educate yourself. Nobody else can do that for you. It's not as if I came up with the idea on my own. I pulled it out of books and articles instead of my ass, although you may pull your ideas out of that location in your body. Ideas come from...

I think that self-replication is a necessary component of what you called the "biological world", not real intelligence, which I think it is possible for humans to build into machines--at least, in principle. If I were to say what I think necessary for intelligence, having a body--collection of...

Jarhyn, you have never shown any evidence of knowing what a true Scotsman fallacy is, so you would not know why it is not the case that I was making one by using the expression "actual intelligence". Apparently, you mind has to make a lot of leaps to end up with that kind of conclusion, but at...

Words don't form begged questions. People form begged questions. :p Modern AI programs do lack actual (aka natural) intelligence. If you want to learn about the differences between artificial intelligence and natural ("actual") intelligence, you need to start with the concept of embodied...

Arguments can be fallacious, not words. If you are having an imaginary argument with me, then I am imagining that you are losing it. ;) OK, I'm not going to argue with the fact that it takes time for people to learn things. However, it is a bad idea to let children drive cars, hoping that...

Self-driving vehicles work up to the point where a dangerous situation occurs that requires actual intelligence to deal with. Unruly bus passengers are an excellent example wrt public transportation. Another example was a recent post I saw locally in which someone driving a Tesla found his...

I read the entire article, and I saw the reference to jobs numbers. The article went into detail in explaining why the figures could be considerably lower and even misleading, although it didn't use that word. And it isn't just about jobs, but also the consumers of the products produced in...

This seems to be one of the most outstanding trends of the Trump era--how cruel it can get over the next four years. Trump engages in cruel behavior towards others, especially people he doesn't know personally, every day. People with the same feelings and tendencies seem to feel empowered by...

Thanks for the gifted link. The map strikes me as somewhat misleading, because there are actually more rural counties than urban counties. So it would need to be adjusted to show relative population size. However, there has been a deliberate strategy to target industries primarily in red...

My opinion is that collectives are always going to be smarter than their stupid people and stupider than their smart people. By definition, they are of average intelligence for any particular collective. It's really hard for me to say why the US is so evenly split between Trump-attracted and...

Or just make things worse. :) You are asking what the word "person" means, but you should first ask what a word meaning is. Otherwise, you are going to get a lot of different answers that pull in very different directions. You can ask what any word means and get the same kind of meandering...

There may be a few here who would like a basic explanation of how LLMs work, I have found the following article to be pretty good. It isn't very technical, and it includes some tips on how to get better performance from them. It may help to clarify why they do such a good job of generating...

The Supreme Court has worked with the rubber stamp US Congress to create this mess, but they are extremely unlikely to admit it. However, what if they did and wanted to do something about it? Could they? JD Vance is just repeating what he has said in the past--that the executive branch has...