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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: PPR: Get something off your chest. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:55 pm
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| It annoys me when I ask 'Why do people vote for the UK Conservatives?' and the response I get is 'Oh, you'll understand when you're older'. Well, I was hoping to hear some specific reasons and examples. So I could fathom how we ended up with this government. :? It annoys me that it would be off-top... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: We need EQUITY |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:26 pm
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| Yes. The average global Gini index is rather high so it should be lowered to at least below 0.4 as per the UN estimate. However, at the same time, we need to have something that is simultaneously adequate for equality but also adequate for economic growth which is why the Gini index is from 0.3 to ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Trump's Trial in NY |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:49 pm
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| One chap distributed leaflets and then set fire to himself and was critically injured: https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-apparently-sets-fire-courthouse-trump-trial/story?id=109433903 Sounds like he was a Trump supporter, but it remains to be seen. This Trump worship s**t is getting ridiculous. He migh... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think that chatbots can help with lonliness? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:35 am
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Replies: 32
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I think I should test it with ambiguous and otherwise unclear English to see if it understands it better than I do. It would be quite useful to me if it did. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are you a leftist or a liberal? Dennis Prager's 32 questions |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 11:45 pm
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| I presume that list of loaded questions doesn't allow for an essay in reply to each of them, so all I could do would be to answer "don't know" to most of them, which would look wishy-washy to some. Doesn't really capture my attitude, which I think is quite left-wing, unbigoted, and thought... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 7:13 pm
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| John Cage? I've heard that name in association with the Beatles but I can't remember the context. I think Paul was into him when he was exploring the art world around 65-66. ?? Yes. Paul and John were influenced by John Cage. Yoko Ono was his friend. He's said to have inspired John's Revolution 9 a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: We need EQUITY |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 5:06 pm
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| Having studied it a bit more now, it seems to me that it's different from "Positive Discrimination" and "Affirmative Action." I'm glad it is. I'm wary of PD and AA. To me it looks like giving extra, specific help to the specific individual people who need it - the picture the OP ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 4:14 pm
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| Ah, here we are: http://musicweird.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-sounds-of-silence-brief-history-of.html It seems John Lennon did make a recording or two of silence, so Izzie's dream wasn't so odd after all. If she can prove she couldn't have been aware of those tracks, we have evidence of the paranormal... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 3:58 pm
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| I was looking down at a vinyl album I'd just purchased. The centre part said it was by John Lennon. It had two songs. The first one was 15:44 long, and called "The Transcendental Song". The gimmick was that it was totally silent. You were supposed to play the album and meditate in silence... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 3:38 pm
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| I was looking down at a vinyl album I'd just purchased. The centre part said it was by John Lennon. It had two songs. The first one was 15:44 long, and called "The Transcendental Song". The gimmick was that it was totally silent. You were supposed to play the album and meditate in silence... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Has 'Chat GPT' proven helpful? |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 3:10 pm
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| ^ That's kind of refreshing in a world where so many people try to insinuate to others that they know best. It's a very intelligent and knowledgeable "being" but it doesn't try to set itself up as an authority, presumably because it has no ego. Rather, it urges the user to check out its st... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think that chatbots can help with lonliness? |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 2:19 pm
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| Just for fun I thought I'd try its poetic abilities too, like angelsonthemoon did: Q: Can you write an answer to the question "Speak to us of Art" in the style Gibran used in The Prophet? A: "Speak to us of Art," you ask, and so I shall unfold its essence as the petals unfurl at ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think that chatbots can help with lonliness? |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 1:38 pm
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| ^ Interesting that it can do poetry of reasonable quality. But as a writer of song lyrics myself, I think I'd feel kind of disappointed once I'd got over the excitement of seeing that it had generated a good lyric that nobody else had ever seen before. I'd feel cheap if I claimed it as my own work, ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 12:32 pm
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| The paradoxes associated with the time travel can be solved with parallel universes or just being able to watch the past like a video but not interact with it. We already indirectly "watch" the past to a degree of course, using archaology etc., and we already directly watch the past when ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: We need EQUITY |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2024, 12:30 am
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| Well yes, language difficulties are nobody's fault. I for one am not too fussed about equity being used in a sense that's new to me, though I'm certainly finding it all rather confusing and hard to figure out what the OP means. Hang on, I think I've decoded the original post by asking ChatGPT a ques... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How the New Testament Canon Was Formed (Bart Ehrman) |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2024, 11:14 pm
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| Interesting that he said it was considered dishonest at the time to falsely attribute a book to an author. I've read that exact authorship wasn't deemed a big thing. I wonder who is right? The part about Christianity being totalitarian is also interesting. I've heard the idea before, and it's natura... |
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