I assume there is a transnational issue. Isn't he an atheist? What does righteous mean? For something to be 'righteous' it must be justified, for something to be justified it must be brought in line with some standard ( not unlike left or right justified on a word processor). Perhaps he means all things must fall in line behind himself?
There is no such thing as a universal moral principle that can be objective. This is simply proved by the question. Why not do evil? The only way any moral principal can be universal is if there exist in reality some non entity that is the cause of both the moral law and the physical laws.
So science (in the sense of purpose study of all knowledge) is able to determine with high certainly that such a cause must exist. However the material sciences will never sufficiently prove the existence of the immaterial because it is outside the scope of its tools and study.
Pick a dot in the triangle you like best. The further you move towards low cost trough lack of regulation you decrease quality or safety.
In interesting solution would be if the apps started fining those they are paying if they were speeding. probably wont' happen unless a lot of people die.
The level of rape in the Catholic Church is about the same or less than in the public schools. The recent report from pensilvania found 300 accused perpetrators out of more than 5000 priest, which puts them about in line with the rest of the country. The difference is people can and should expect them to be better.
sure, but how many of those facts are 'interesting'.
For instance. Let's just suppose one could prove beyond any reasonable doubt that withing 500 years the greenhouse effect would destroy the earth and make in uninhabitable by mankind.
( let's ignore the difficulty of proving that for the sake of the demonstration.)
You will notice what has NOT been proved. a) that there is anything we SHOULD do about b) that there is anything we CAN do about
why, because material science can't prove or disprove a moral proposition.
So while science can prove useful facts like. IF you do this,you have a high likelihood of accomplishing that. It is entirely useless when it comes to the first part of the preposition. That is to say 'should you do the IF'.
how, do you propose we change peoples hearts and minds. The greatest problem is the growing number of people who have faith in nothing, except whatever they happen to feel is right or wrong. It is impossible to make a rational argument for self sacrifice to someone who a) Doesn't believe the future is relevant to them after they die. b) Is only convinced something is right or wrong by their feelings.
On the other hand , if half the Christians and Buddhist in the world actually practiced what they preach the whole world would be much better off. At least with them you can point out they are wrong and make an argument about why they should change.
Plastic is made from oil. Oil is something between a rock and an organic. Plastic makes the oil harder to break down. We are basically making artificial and very flexible rocks.
The plastic doesn't deteriorate like normal organic matter , it breaks down more like rocks because that is what it is. So is it harmful? no on can say. Not enough data.
Playing in the control room of a nuclear reactor. "Gee wiz buddy, what do you think I could jump off that blue thing with all the lights and grab that lever up on the wall".
Literally no one has any idea what the long term effect of this kind of thing is going to be.
We should have military dominance of the deep sea as well. I mean almost NO one can go there. We need to establish a base on the moon and a colony on mars for 'security'. After all, all that nothing is a real threat.
I kind of thought the idea of a crowd-sourced encyclopedia was that the community decided which topics were important ( aka deserved) to be covered and then wrote about them.
So ok the AI can write a bio, but does a person decide who 'deserves' one? If you don't know anything about them how would you decide that? If you know something about them , why not write that?
Sure but obviously not for indie developers, basically they are tring to convince software houses with deep products that a non existent market will materialize so they should spend 2,300 on test equipment and a million on building software content. but I just don't believe they have a market. What makes their augmented reality so much better then Microsoft? Or how about a google android headset with a camera added to it?
You also avoid, having a whole bunch of fund mangers and 401k's driving business decisions. They only ask one question. Will the stock value go up.
Should we do this really innovative thing that will pay off well withing the next 10 years? Only if the stock value will go up. Should we make sure we have the best quality of anyone? Only if the stock value will go up. Should we invest in R&D and take a serious risk that might tank the company? Only if the stock value goes up.
Having those kinds of investors, forces a company to be short sighted and mediocre, which is what you get at most large publicly help corporations.
Accountability... You see , when 50% or more of your investors are fund managers for 401k's they don't care a even a little about things like 'long term profitability' , 'company reputation' , customer service or product quality. The only question they ask is , will the stock value go up , so the portfolio will grow. They have no real interest in the product or serving the customer and that attitude is a dis-service to the whole of society. It may be time to consider some other corporate structures.
I'm not sure I know the answer, Does someone , if the case is purely civil, like a divorce, can I person get a search warrant for private property? I know they can get a subpoena for bank records, this seems to fall somewhere in between.
They are different on some level, but not when you evaluate ( a crime has been committed, There is a normal process for tracking down the perpetrator). It really doesn't make a difference if the crime is copy right violation, theft, murder, speeding or public intoxication, the laws of evidence and proof are much the same. The only real difference is weather it is a capital crime ( aka punishable by the government and jail) or a civil crime ( aka I can sue you for money but you won't go to jail). I'd have to do some more investigation to see if search warrants are issued for civil crimes, i don't think they are, because at least in this country to my understanding they are issued to a public prosecutor and their isn't one in a civil suit.
I'm not a climate denier, but what kind of damage are we talking about here? From the article
"If the threshold is crossed, the resulting trajectory would likely cause serious disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies"
How serious? I mean , I guess I'm not all that bothered if I see the collapse of society any more then my own death ( All socieites collapse and all people die) If by end of my lifetime and we wind up being hunter gathers again, as I can tell there is zero I can do about it.
More to the point, what do these folks expect to be done about it and by who? Should we all advocate one government take over the whole world and fix the problem? Even if you had a single dictator in charge of the Globe ( aka won't happen) how would they maintain control and drop the carbon footprint quickly enough? nuke india and china to decrease it's population?
Kind of makes you wonder why their donations are declining. Maybe they need to figure out a better way to appeal the the sympathy atheists naturally have to not yet human blobs of flesh.
I'm guessing the only value of such a thing, beyond research, would be if it is super fast for specialized applications. Say you wanted to implement voice recognition with specific keyword capture across all the conversations in the united states at the same time in real time. Something like this 'might' be useful , assuming you can't perform the same task on normal hardware, which i wouldn't know without testing.
Hey I just met you and this ain't stanlgrad I have new cell phone so Call me Comrade your hard and you look really bad Hey I just met you and this ain't stanlgrad I have new cell phone so Call me Comrade And all the party try to rad I have new cell phone so Call me Comrade
that was a later feature of AOL you had to minimize the portal and use a web browser. When they first started that was not the case. Prodigy and AOL and MSN all used TCP like technology but because commercial traffic was not allowed on the internet they could not talk to each other and you could only send e-mail to others on the same network. When the government lifted the requirement that internet connections could only be used for research / non-profit purposes then it became commercially viable to connect all the services together.
Welcome to the human race. Most humans throughout most of history have had to deal with 'food insecurity' perhaps this experience will help give those in college some perspective.
Speaking of respective, how insecure is there food in reality. I mean aren't ramien noodles till sold for something like 5 for dollar and tuna sold for cheap, what about those eggs. If you can get to a normal grocery store once a month a single person can live and not starve for less then $30 a month, you just aren't eating food you like. I'm not saying this to be harsh , that is what I lived on my senior year while working to graduate, why because my parents were poor and their available contribution was zero. Maybe we appropriate things more if we have to fight for them, rather then treating college like an extended adolescences and parting till we puke.
I'd like to see some statistics NOT related to 'feelings'. How about , how many college students are hospitalized per capita for malnutrition? (anybody? was there any?). Here the thing, if you are choosing between beer and food, please pick food. A person can also do without new cloths for years ( the good will is nearby if you are hard up.)
I have my doubt''s if this is actually 'food insecurity' in so much as it is poor planning and wanting what you want.
Seriously if you have enough money to pay for school you have enough money to eat. Take 1 less class a semester, pick up a few hours and graduate in 5 or 6 years instead of 4. Hmm... food or books.. food or books... you need to food before you can use the books.
In your example of the use of a megaphone your freedom of speech is limited by someone else right to have quite and not hear you.
So does the fact that your drunk ramblings on reddit might inspire some crazy person to commit murder 5 years later, put it in a different category then your drunk rambling in your family home.
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I assume there is a transnational issue.
Isn't he an atheist? What does righteous mean? For something to be 'righteous' it must be justified, for something to be justified it must be brought in line with some standard ( not unlike left or right justified on a word processor). Perhaps he means all things must fall in line behind himself?
Again Clean? It what was is it dirty?
There is no such thing as a universal moral principle that can be objective. This is simply proved by the question. Why not do evil? The only way any moral principal can be universal is if there exist in reality some non entity that is the cause of both the moral law and the physical laws.
So science (in the sense of purpose study of all knowledge) is able to determine with high certainly that such a cause must exist.
However the material sciences will never sufficiently prove the existence of the immaterial because it is outside the scope of its tools and study.
Low Cost - quality - safety.
Pick a dot in the triangle you like best. The further you move towards low cost trough lack of regulation you decrease quality or safety.
In interesting solution would be if the apps started fining those they are paying if they were speeding. probably wont' happen unless a lot of people die.
The level of rape in the Catholic Church is about the same or less than in the public schools. The recent report from pensilvania found 300 accused perpetrators out of more than 5000 priest, which puts them about in line with the rest of the country. The difference is people can and should expect them to be better.
sure, but how many of those facts are 'interesting'.
For instance. Let's just suppose one could prove beyond any reasonable doubt that withing 500 years the greenhouse effect would destroy the earth and make in uninhabitable by mankind.
( let's ignore the difficulty of proving that for the sake of the demonstration.)
You will notice what has NOT been proved.
a) that there is anything we SHOULD do about
b) that there is anything we CAN do about
why, because material science can't prove or disprove a moral proposition.
So while science can prove useful facts like. IF you do this ,you have a high likelihood of accomplishing that.
It is entirely useless when it comes to the first part of the preposition. That is to say 'should you do the IF'.
how, do you propose we change peoples hearts and minds. The greatest problem is the growing number of people who have faith in nothing, except whatever they happen to feel is right or wrong. It is impossible to make a rational argument for self sacrifice to someone who a) Doesn't believe the future is relevant to them after they die.
b) Is only convinced something is right or wrong by their feelings.
On the other hand , if half the Christians and Buddhist in the world actually practiced what they preach the whole world would be much better off. At least with them you can point out they are wrong and make an argument about why they should change.
Plastic is made from oil. Oil is something between a rock and an organic. Plastic makes the oil harder to break down. We are basically making artificial and very flexible rocks.
The plastic doesn't deteriorate like normal organic matter , it breaks down more like rocks because that is what it is. So is it harmful? no on can say. Not enough data.
It might also help with 'deniability' so you have a doctored screenshot of and e-mail you 'claim' I sent. But are YOU a credible witness.
Yes, I think the county should accept their valuation. Take the property based on eminent domain, pay them $500 for it. Then charge them rent :)
Playing in the control room of a nuclear reactor.
"Gee wiz buddy, what do you think I could jump off that blue thing with all the lights and grab that lever up on the wall".
Literally no one has any idea what the long term effect of this kind of thing is going to be.
We should have military dominance of the deep sea as well. I mean almost NO one can go there. We need to establish a base on the moon and a colony on mars for 'security'. After all, all that nothing is a real threat.
I kind of thought the idea of a crowd-sourced encyclopedia was that the community decided which topics were important ( aka deserved) to be covered and then wrote about them.
So ok the AI can write a bio, but does a person decide who 'deserves' one? If you don't know anything about them how would you decide that? If you know something about them , why not write that?
I assume that this could not be universal, as they must have some people working at 'night' which would be the daytime state side.
Sure but obviously not for indie developers, basically they are tring to convince software houses with deep products that a non existent market will materialize so they should spend 2,300 on test equipment and a million on building software content. but I just don't believe they have a market. What makes their augmented reality so much better then Microsoft? Or how about a google android headset with a camera added to it?
You also avoid, having a whole bunch of fund mangers and 401k's driving business decisions.
They only ask one question. Will the stock value go up.
Should we do this really innovative thing that will pay off well withing the next 10 years? Only if the stock value will go up.
Should we make sure we have the best quality of anyone? Only if the stock value will go up.
Should we invest in R&D and take a serious risk that might tank the company? Only if the stock value goes up.
Having those kinds of investors, forces a company to be short sighted and mediocre, which is what you get at most large publicly help corporations.
Accountability ... You see , when 50% or more of your investors are fund managers for 401k's they don't care a even a little about things like 'long term profitability' , 'company reputation' , customer service or product quality. The only question they ask is , will the stock value go up , so the portfolio will grow. They have no real interest in the product or serving the customer and that attitude is a dis-service to the whole of society. It may be time to consider some other corporate structures.
I'm not sure I know the answer, Does someone , if the case is purely civil, like a divorce, can I person get a search warrant for private property? I know they can get a subpoena for bank records, this seems to fall somewhere in between.
They are different on some level, but not when you evaluate ( a crime has been committed, There is a normal process for tracking down the perpetrator). It really doesn't make a difference if the crime is copy right violation, theft, murder, speeding or public intoxication, the laws of evidence and proof are much the same. The only real difference is weather it is a capital crime ( aka punishable by the government and jail) or a civil crime ( aka I can sue you for money but you won't go to jail). I'd have to do some more investigation to see if search warrants are issued for civil crimes, i don't think they are, because at least in this country to my understanding they are issued to a public prosecutor and their isn't one in a civil suit.
I'm not a climate denier, but what kind of damage are we talking about here?
From the article
"If the threshold is crossed, the resulting trajectory would likely cause serious disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies"
How serious? I mean , I guess I'm not all that bothered if I see the collapse of society any more then my own death ( All socieites collapse and all people die) If by end of my lifetime and we wind up being hunter gathers again, as I can tell there is zero I can do about it.
More to the point, what do these folks expect to be done about it and by who? Should we all advocate one government take over the whole world and fix the problem? Even if you had a single dictator in charge of the Globe ( aka won't happen) how would they maintain control and drop the carbon footprint quickly enough? nuke india and china to decrease it's population?
Support a very christian ideal of helping babies inutero
Support science that is often used to kill or dehumanize those same babies thus alienating a large portion of your donar base.
Profit?
https://www.lifeissues.org/200...
http://www.roseandherlily.com/...
Kind of makes you wonder why their donations are declining. Maybe they need to figure out a better way to appeal the the sympathy atheists naturally have to not yet human blobs of flesh.
I'm guessing the only value of such a thing, beyond research, would be if it is super fast for specialized applications.
Say you wanted to implement voice recognition with specific keyword capture across all the conversations in the united states at the same time in real time. Something like this 'might' be useful , assuming you can't perform the same task on normal hardware, which i wouldn't know without testing.
Hey I just met you and this ain't stanlgrad
I have new cell phone so Call me Comrade
your hard and you look really bad
Hey I just met you and this ain't stanlgrad
I have new cell phone so Call me Comrade
And all the party try to rad
I have new cell phone so Call me Comrade
that was a later feature of AOL you had to minimize the portal and use a web browser. When they first started that was not the case. Prodigy and AOL and MSN all used TCP like technology but because commercial traffic was not allowed on the internet they could not talk to each other and you could only send e-mail to others on the same network. When the government lifted the requirement that internet connections could only be used for research / non-profit purposes then it became commercially viable to connect all the services together.
Welcome to the human race. Most humans throughout most of history have had to deal with 'food insecurity' perhaps this experience will help give those in college some perspective.
Speaking of respective, how insecure is there food in reality. I mean aren't ramien noodles till sold for something like 5 for dollar and tuna sold for cheap, what about those eggs. If you can get to a normal grocery store once a month a single person can live and not starve for less then $30 a month, you just aren't eating food you like. I'm not saying this to be harsh , that is what I lived on my senior year while working to graduate, why because my parents were poor and their available contribution was zero. Maybe we appropriate things more if we have to fight for them, rather then treating college like an extended adolescences and parting till we puke.
I'd like to see some statistics NOT related to 'feelings'. How about , how many college students are hospitalized per capita for malnutrition? (anybody? was there any?).
Here the thing, if you are choosing between beer and food, please pick food. A person can also do without new cloths for years ( the good will is nearby if you are hard up.)
I have my doubt''s if this is actually 'food insecurity' in so much as it is poor planning and wanting what you want.
Seriously if you have enough money to pay for school you have enough money to eat. Take 1 less class a semester, pick up a few hours and graduate in 5 or 6 years instead of 4. Hmm... food or books.. food or books ... you need to food before you can use the books.
Thanks some good bits of thought in there.
In your example of the use of a megaphone your freedom of speech is limited by someone else right to have quite and not hear you.
So does the fact that your drunk ramblings on reddit might inspire some crazy person to commit murder 5 years later, put it in a different category then your drunk rambling in your family home.