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    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Acting specifically according to one's own will is exactly "having free will" in that moment in which the action accords to one's own will. That's how it's defined under compatibilism. Any more technical definition, within compatibilism, must satisfy that requirement. That is the first and...
  2. J

    Controversial upcoming game: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths

    But like, that last paragraph looks like a pretty solid block...
  3. J

    Controversial upcoming game: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths

    Wait, so did she turn away from them and get sick of them, or did she go back to them more? That verse is confused as hell.
  4. J

    Elizabeth II has died

    Elizabeth may be dead but with your thread-reviving powers perhaps you can do her a solid, and free GB from he progeny's dark reign (just look at his portrait FFS... Then I heard someone did some rather hilarious editing on it?) That said the British royal family has a lot of understated power...
  5. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    To be fair, I think it would be more appropriate to have sports (at least on the "back end") restricted on lines of how much performance enhancing chemicals the athletes have consumed recently (or ever, depending on the context). This might place trans people in the testosterone-heavy league...
  6. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    Generally this leads me to believe that the complaints are less about the problematic status quo and more about wanting to have a convenient target for complaints; that it really is more about the moral grandstander pointing their fingers (one obvious finger pointed at the world and three hidden...
  7. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    I don't think your idea is impossible. It might take some work and a long term plan involving putting some pretty heavy burdens on the people who profiteered from prisons for so long, but it's definitely possible. The reality is that we can and should start by moving sex offenders to a third...
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    Anything you could desire and simulations

    Except it isn't actually counting them, nor really knowing how it's spelled. As I said, look up how LLMs find meaning in things through vector space association. It would also help to know which GPT version this is... Some of them in addition to not really knowing how to spell, also suck at...
  9. J

    Gender Roles

    As I stated before, regardless of intent, when conservatives "satirize", it generally ends up being a gish-gallop of straw men. Such "satire" simply fails to be satirical at all, and falls on its face as propaganda. There's nothing funny or satirical about it. It's just a straight up lie at...
  10. J

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    I think you misunderstand how LLMs do language. The thing is chatGPT doesn't actually speak English the way people do. It doesn't really know how to spell, because the whole concept of words as constructions of letters and sounds is foreign to it, unless you walk it through a particular...
  11. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    You lean on a false dichotomy, though I'll leave Gospel to explain it to you if you fail to figure it out and correct yourself :)
  12. J

    1000 Questions In Reasoning

    It's not. It's more a test of "neurotypical thinking".
  13. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    Arguably rape babies, or fear of them, abound. Also there's the question of physical ability to force and perpetrate the act. Then, I don't see how I haven't already answered that with my point about actually requiring substantive transition or your point of taking real measures to actually...
  14. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Will is not "affixed" until it has been (note the present tense) determined by the antecedents. The program is not written until I write it, and when it is written, it has been written by me. It is not "patently absurd" to note "it came in that moment from me". If I have a city on the border...
  15. J

    Gender Roles

    Satires go both ways, though. Yes, it's pretty obvious that there's a satire there, however it's a satire presented such that it strongly appears to be mockery of the idea of gender at all. I gathered it as a satirical mockery of the idea that gender has biological realities, like a conservative...
  16. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    Not to mention that it would be useful to demonstrate whether or not this person is hormonally transitioning, and/or being rendered sterile, and/or being strictly physically segregated for their lack of either of those things. Either way, I do think that rapists/sex criminals should be placed...
  17. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    I would also like to see even the slightest bit of evidence that there is anyone housed in such an estate that hasn't undergone a hormonal transition; I keep saying though that if people don't want unserious transition in the prisons, they could just support and call on their legislatures to...
  18. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Even if the will is predictable, it doesn't matter, because a prediction is ONLY prediction and the prediction itself can influence the result as long as it's visible: you couldn't predict the future to me where I kill my father and fuck my mother because I would die before I killed and fucked...
  19. J

    1000 Questions In Reasoning

    For me, this mostly just applies to "next number in sequence" or "nth in sequence" type questions. "There is a function from the natural numbers to any countable sequence of numbers".
  20. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    That's the problem here, I think: you don't realize that "the special will" that is "the will to make decisions for yourself" specifically excludes the influence of internal conditions by its very nature. Those internal conditions cannot constrain that will, because the will being discussed by...
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