Constructive Skeptical Philosophy
This group is for constructive skeptical inquiries about reality, knowledge, and value. Using skepticism to improve understanding and build defensible positions (rather than simply negating others’ arguments without self-reflection) is strongly stressed.
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THE OVERLOOKED PROBLEM WITH LLM CREATING AGI
Epistemically Contextual Chaos: The problem isn't just contextual, it's epistemically chaotic. The fact is, we CONTROL the information AIs get. Even if we lose the details in its development, what sort of information an AI has, it only has, because we found specific ideas... Read the full postPeople are arrogant, selfish, self serving, icy cold and distant to each other's suffering, disinterested in learning how and why to make decisions that are pivotal to their's and other's well being. And the kindest people are very often the cruelest to others when made angry.... Read the full postI recently had a conversation with an AI about microtonal music. In case you're wondering what that is, the normal western stuff is a scale separated by 12 tones between octaves.... Read the full postA Short Word on Self Reliance
Self reliance involves emotion and consciousness. Every example of one who is self reliant, is an example of one who must rely on things beyond them.... Read the full postI'm here as a Hermetic-leaning skeptic who still believes truth matters, even when our institutions and traditions keep getting it wrong. I'm less interested in defending fixed beliefs than in stress-testing them - religious, political, and "scientific" - to see what actually... Read the full postFree Will is an Incoherent Concept
Free will is defined as the ability to make choices that have no dependency on anything in the universe. Literally not anything: not your past, not your experience, not your knowledge, not your upbringing, not the people who are around you, not your culture: freedom depends on... Read the full postOK! So what is constructive skeptical philosophy?
OK! So what is constructive skeptical philosophy? My understanding of "skeptical philosophy" would be, e.g., Hume. Philosophy that emphasizes empiricism and is distant from "metaphysical speculation." It might be related to the current "skeptical movement" which discounts or... Read the full postThe Code of Reality
The Code of Reality... Anyone experience this phenomena ? The code what does it look like? Do you have a drawing of any of the symbols in the code?