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    Thread: AI megathread
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Laird Wrote: (2024-03-24, 06:43 AM) -- Life in 2064 (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/future-ai-what-will-life-be-like-in-2060s/103408964) By Catherine Taylor for the ABC on 20 March, 2024 ...
Posted by Typoz in Other Topics , 2024-03-24, 06:05 PM
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    Thread: AI megathread
Post: RE: AI megathread

Laird Wrote: (2024-03-24, 06:43 AM) -- Life in 2064 (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/future-ai-what-will-life-be-like-in-2060s/103408964) By Catherine Taylor for the ABC on 20 March, 2024 ...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Other Topics , 2024-03-24, 05:08 PM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

Laird Wrote: (2024-03-21, 10:30 PM) -- @"nbtruthman"#90, this is a great piece, and worth quoting from, but the extensiveness of the quoting breaches our Guidelines for reproducing external content (...
Posted by nbtruthman in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-22, 04:54 PM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

A little historical review is warranted in order to clear the obfuscations and misstatements in the recent complete put-down by the Pentagon and AARO organization of the reality of UAPs/UFOs as alien ...
Posted by nbtruthman in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-21, 02:59 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...

David001 Wrote: (2024-03-20, 04:39 PM) -- Well they certainly aren't rationalisations, more like attempts to understand the message that we seem to be receiving. Items 1 and 2 are an attempt to co...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-03-20, 04:50 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...

David001 Wrote: (2024-03-19, 04:12 PM) -- Having thought about the concept of souls learning from incarnations, I have tentatively reached some conclusions: 1)      Every possible evil act sits on...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-03-20, 03:40 PM
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    Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
Post: RE: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical...

Laird Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:46 AM) -- True, but the main scenario in the article - leaving a cafe before it gets shot up - seems to fit the second category. How, based solely on subconscious cues in...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-03-20, 03:07 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and sp...

Valmar Wrote: (2024-03-15, 05:19 AM) -- Well... we often see "Evil" as such from our existing perspective. It's obvious to us, because it contrasts most heavily to our perspective, making it appear a...
Posted by nbtruthman in Spirituality , 2024-03-15, 04:05 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...

David001 Wrote: (2024-03-11, 11:56 PM) -- Well thanks. If you can stand it in the circumstances let's go on exploring the subject. First, I am about halfway through this book: https://www.amazon.co...
Posted by nbtruthman in Spirituality , 2024-03-14, 10:56 PM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

Brian Wrote: (2024-03-14, 09:07 PM) -- These are likely but not certainly all true accounts of having seen something.  What, we cannot say.  When you are flying above the clouds, who knows what kind ...
Posted by nbtruthman in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-14, 10:17 PM
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    Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
Post: RE: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical...

Laird Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:56 AM) -- It's sort of a bait-and-switch: "Here's this spooky example of intuition, but we reject spooky explanations, so here we provide a rational explanation based on ...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-03-14, 05:37 AM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

sbu Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:46 PM) -- I engage with objective evidence, not with anecdotal evidence. A risk of relying on anecdotal evidence is that it can be used to spread misinformation and manipul...
Posted by nbtruthman in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-14, 01:40 AM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

I think this thread's discussion needs a dunk in the cold water of the stubbornly persistent existence of a very large body of evidence for the physical reality of UFOs and probable NHIs, independent ...
Posted by nbtruthman in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-13, 04:33 PM
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    Thread: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical" characterisation of intuition
Post: RE: ABC News article rejects "spiritual or magical...

I don't think this is an untirely unfair take to be honest. If there is subtle psi effects that may underpin things like intuition I think it's pretty clear that it's not ALWAYS active. Subconscious e...
Posted by Smaw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-03-13, 10:25 AM
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    Thread: AI megathread
Post: $60M Reddit AI deal

I thought we had a general AI thread but I can't find it.  Anyway... Quote: -- Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data -- Quote: -- Reddit has reportedly sign...
Posted by Brian in Other Topics , 2024-03-12, 10:21 PM
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    Thread: The soul, suffering, healing, learning, and spirituality [Night Shift split]
Post: RE: Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work Wh...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-11, 06:36 PM) -- This is because I consider long human experience of innocent meaningless suffering to be a fundamental existential badness that cannot be expunged by there...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Spirituality , 2024-03-11, 08:07 PM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

Laird Wrote: (2024-03-10, 06:41 AM) -- Oh. My understanding is that Grusch has been unable to show direct evidence for his claims because that requires a level of security clearance which those in co...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-10, 04:33 PM
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    Thread: Free will and obesity
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sbu Wrote: (2024-03-08, 01:05 PM) -- This might not truly be a discussion about 'free will' in the classical sense. Rather, it's a reflection on how our minds are influenced by our bodies, not the ot...
Posted by nbtruthman in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-03-09, 02:00 AM
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    Thread: Free will and obesity
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sbu Wrote: (2024-03-08, 08:54 PM) -- I have profound sympathy for addicts whose lives are shattered by addiction and who struggle to find a way out. It's heartening to know there's a solution for the...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-03-08, 09:00 PM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

sbu Wrote: (2024-03-08, 06:27 PM) -- Actually there’s lots of UFO related news today: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/ufos-storage-findings-alien-technology-exhaustive-pentagon-review/story?id=1...
Posted by nbtruthman in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-08, 08:02 PM
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