@MorePerfectUS Senators already trade with insider information on what is effectively their own personal prediction market: the stock market
Would love an explanation from the Senators who unanimously voted for this ban as to how the reasoning behind it doesn’t apply there too
@Maxthebeast76@kirawontmiss Genuinely?
I think “intentional design” being the limit of your understanding is simply the result of an inability to comprehend the scale of time over which organisms develop, mutate, and adapt
That, paired with an uncritical application of anthropocentric pattern recognition
@nicksortor@tx4kids The right’s answer to Trump’s increasingly aberrant behavior is to assume he’s retarded
You have to believe he’s a real fuckin dumbass to think he didn’t understand what the image conveys, what figures it used to do so, etc.
If you’re right it’s an L, if you’re wrong it’s an L
@nicksortor@tx4kids The right’s answer to Trump’s increasingly aberrant behavior is to assume he’s retarded
You have to believe he’s a real fuckin dumbass to think he didn’t understand what the image conveys, what figures it used to do so, etc.
If you’re right it’s an L, if you’re wrong it’s an L
@audreymama_ @renikoyi @GodsgreatG Adam and Eve exist only as text in a book written by humans approximately 1,900-3,400 years ago
The fossil record on the other hand, exists in real life devoid of human intervention while telling a story over millions of years
@GodsgreatG @renikoyi That’s the beauty of evolutionary theory
Your “agreement/belief” in it isn’t a prerequisite for its validity
Evolution, and the body of evidence supporting it exist independently of you—and will continue to do so regardless of your refusal to understand or acknowledge it
@NEfuGnH@om_patel5 The same companies that have been actively lobbying the government to make no laws or regulations on AI for the next decade?
Fuck all the way off with this simp shit
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 You’ve critiqued Legos generally rather than the analogy actually made—a set engineered to produce only one outcome is precisely the illustration of a being whose nature was designed to produce only one sequence of choices
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 This reads as an emotional response rather than a philosophical one
Analogies often require you to engage on their own terms to grasp what’s being conveyed
The analogy specifies a Lego set designed to only fit together one way—that constraint is the point, not an oversight
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 You can’t preserve all three simultaneously—omnipotence, omniscience, and genuine free will, without quietly emptying one of them
Based on your the response below, it seems you choose to quietly limit omniscience
@DipshitDetect@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 Here is my chain of logic: An omnipotent being can create someone with free will, based on the definition of “omnipotence”. And knowledge of those future free-will actions does not limit those actions, because foreknowledge is based on the actions, not the other way around.
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 I’m not limiting omnipotence, I’m following its implications in combination with omniscience
You’re the one with a hidden limit: your defense of free will requires God to create beings whose choices escape his foreknowledge—that limits his omniscience
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 Additionally, your foreknowledge argument requires God’s knowledge to be constituted by human choices—meaning God’s knowledge depends on what humans do rather than existing independently
That’s a significant limitation on omniscience you’ve quietly inserted
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 It may not change the result of determinism, but it does change its character
Regardless, I don’t see much point in this response from you—as nothing has really been added and it only leaves me wondering what the point of it is
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 The question isn’t whether God could make a free being in the abstract—it’s whether knowing the complete outcome of your design before creating it is compatible with that design producing genuine alternatives
In my view, it isn’t
@HadrianHarker@Aerondyte0@shamanspirit13@philosophymeme0 But if God designed everything you are and knew exactly what that design would produce before pulling the trigger on creation—in what sense did alternatives ever exist?