Bottom line: Text generative AIs do not capture meaning. They capture relationships which approximate meaning well enough to be useful.
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Klinghoffer notes that the question, “Why there is something rather than nothing?” is also addressed in the new video, “Proof of God in 3 Minutes.”
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Dementia is not “inevitable,” in the sense that it would happen no matter what else is in play. Nature is rarely like that. Decisions matter.
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By 2020, authors Yudlowsky and Soares were already Doomers but the rapid success of ChatGPT and similar models heightened their worries.
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Carole Hooven discovered that, where the sex binary nature of humans is concerned, the new elite at Harvard and The Lancet thrive on nonsense. But she can’t.
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The conventional belief that a sound investment portfolio should be 60% stocks and 40% bonds does not stand up to careful scrutiny.
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To answer Micro Softy 48, consider: How might Freddy be moving his car from place to place without exerting much physical energy at all?
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One effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.
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There are plenty of dramatic stories illustrating the abuses and dangers of assisted suicide, just waiting to be told, but Hollywood won’t tell them.
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Michael Egnor adds that classical philosophers defined love as “willing the good of the other,” not merely liking someone and Stephen Post agrees.
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All ethical boundaries are being obliterated as reproductive technologists manipulate the creation of new human life to fulfill any parental desire.
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The writers of Time Travel 2002 merely use Wells’s story’s name and reputation to tell a less satisfying tale of their own making.
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Surprised? Joel Kotkin points out that the conventional picture many people have of the religious vs. the non-religious population is gravely distorted.
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If intelligence essentially involves agency, artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the human sense is not attainable by computation alone.
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The more useful an AI data collection system becomes, the more tempting a target it will be for hackers. Some risks are actually the price of success.
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If anything, these AI tech moguls are giving away their rather sordid conception of the human person.
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Science itself is being deplatformed by Woke relativism, developed by the very people who found atheists quite thought-provoking and fashionable.
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Circular financing is the last gasp for OpenAI and the cloud services. They need it to maintain the mirage of an economic boom despite big losses and small revenues for AI software.
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NDEs do change lives but, according to a recent study, NDErs often require counseling and not many counselors are equipped to support them.
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The human soul has been understood as quite real but immaterial and non-local. It is instantiated in a body, which is material and local.
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