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Genady

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  1. I wouldn't say these understandings are flawed. They are just different and are used for different purposes. BTW, there is also a mathematical induction, where a conclusion is as certain to follow from the premises as in deduction.
  2. Maybe a learning disability disorder?
  3. After I die my body will go through well-known physical processes. The hereafter is not ruled out as a possibility, I just don't think it is an actuality. The cherry-picked list omits many good and happy things this world has.
  4. I don't believe in reincarnation and in "eternal and immortal soul [that] cannot be made nor destroyed." Not sure about "space, space-time, gravity, energy, time", but matter certainly can be made and destroyed. I don't know if "Nature and TIme have already been in existence forever", if "Time extends infinitely into the past as it does the future" and if "little planet Earth and the far-from-perfect human race is the best they can do for all of evolution." The world is not "crappy", and the quoted list is cherry-picked.
  5. The thing that intrigues me most about human body is its evolution.
  6. Saying "either ... or ..." implies exclusive or. Inclusive or is just "... or ...". Like in, e.g., "Single digit numbers divisible by 2 or 3 are 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 9."
  7. No, it is not, because one statement is not a negation of the other. Plus, being (or not) a contradiction is a logical rather than physical attribute and as such it does not depend on observer.
  8. Genady replied to Trurl's topic in Religion
    No, I would not, because there is no logical relation between us building AI and the history of life on Earth.
  9. This is not so strange. These animals evolved big bellies in order to have room for a lot of low energy food. Rather than they have big bellies from eating this food.
  10. This is what stops Google from releasing its chatbot now: Google execs warn of reputational risk with ChatGPT-like tool (cnbc.com)
  11. A sofisticated bs generator. With a right training could replace Deepak Chopra.
  12. Then learn. What stops you?
  13. I can't know any of this because both beer and cheese give me terrible headache. I had any of them last time many years ago.
  14. They do. They do! Lots of Dutch around here. No 'typical European physique'. Many thin and toll. Consume a lot of beer and cheese.
  15. Some people I know would say, But I ask about FOOD...
  16. Right. Such misspelling is natural for a person whose first language is Russian. Thank you.
  17. Just my 5 cents. Where I live, locals have a neat trick which goes a long way in helping to keep conversations polite. They avoid using a singular 'you' as much as possible. This trick helps to talk about a message rather than a person, makes it difficult to insert insults, etc.
  18. But, it is 'lazer' in Russian...
  19. I don't think the question is, how close is AI to HI (human I) -- it is nowhere close. An interesting question, however, is, how far the imitation can go. Understanding this might help us to understand better ourselves.
  20. As it already writes programs in C++, how about giving it a COBOL tutorial and see if it will write COBOL programs?
  21. Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes | Financial Times (ft.com)
  22. Since the plasma we're talking about is a state of air, it seems to me that saying, "Lightening is a plasma" is a way of saying, "Lightening is air." I don't think that lightening is air.

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