/philosophy of science/
What is the next big thing in science and why is it AGI?
What the hell is AGI?
And the next big thing in science is the shift from linearity to non-linearity
>>430538
Artificial General Intelligence
It will transcend human cognition rendering mathematics obsolete.
>>430553
oh, so a fancy word for full AI
I sure hope so
What's wrong with judging the morality of historical actions through a modern lens? Is there never any value in doing it?
>>430284
It's not inherently wrong but it's a tricky business
econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/05/virtue_conformi.html
>>430284
its a utterly pointless exercise, if nothing else.
There's nothing inherently WRONG with the concept. It serves as a proper benchmark for one's progress in any direction.
What most people have trouble with is judging said morality through their modern perspective, and then leaving the exercise at that. All too often you find historical 'reviews' and 'summaries' which carry slanted views on events in the past, often condemning them or in rarer cases endorsing them. All of which is done through the modern lens, tempered more or less by the writer's personal preferences. As time passes, those writings get accepted more and more as fact as opposed to mere 'Editorials' on said facts, and soon enough you have a perceptible slant on history itself.
Go to /v/ sometimes, and you may note an extreme example of sometimes historical-based video games being given a modern slant. Likewise on /tv/ or /co/ or any entertainment medium.
Peruvifag here
I want to get to know more about my people's history and culture, before the Spanish dogs came and perverted our bloodlines. /his/torians, please dump any and all info you may have on the matter.
Bump for interest
I know that the Incan Empire was united about 150 years before the conquest, but I don't know what happened before that or where they came from. Did enough historical records survive the conquest or is it all based on archaeology and interpretations of folklore?
From what I know, the Incan Empire basically invented the equivalent of the modern highway system. There were thousands of miles of roads allowing easier travel through the mountainous terrain. In addition, the coca plant played an interesting role. Due to a lack of horses, all messages had to be relayed by foot. To expedite the process and keep the runner alice, he or she would nibble on a coca leaf to stay awake and keep hunger at bay. On the same note, waystations were set up along the highways to give the runner a quick meal and rest if absolutely necessary.
Also Machu Picchu is fucking majestic but you can easily look that up anywhere.
IIRC Peru has been inhabited since 10,000 or 9000 BC. Norte Chico was a pre-Columbian Peruvian civilization, considered to be the oldest civilization in America, dating to 3000 BC. Very strange compared to ancient Europe and Asia. They had no ceramics and one instance of visual art that I recall, some scratch on a gourd, although they did have musical instruments. Norte Chico may have started based on maritime food sources like fishing rather than crops like most civilizations. Agriculture for textiles and weaving for fishing nets likely developed before food crops. The economy was based on cotton and possibly dried anchovies. They had strings resembling quipu, although it's not sure if they were mnemonic devices instead of record keeping. There is no evidence of warfare or defensive fortifications, but they had platform mounds and terraced pyramids.
Are IQ tests an objective measure of ones cognitive capabilities? What's your experience with it?
>>429769
Not really. If it can be studied for and greatly improve your score, then its not objective. It is predictive, but only to a point.
It's a pattern recognition test.
Great for engineering and physics aptitude, but less useful for everything else
>>429769
I keep getting about 130 to 140 on these things throughout life and I really don't understand it. I'm a great test taker though and fantastic bullshitter.
I agree that it's based in pattern recognition and memorization of basic things like word recognition and simple math. Even if they did reflect a person's intelligence, how well the person applies themself means more in our lives today. Sharp as shit but a total NEET? You're worthless.
Judaism, Christianity, Islam is not allowed
>>429764
What about bha'ai and sikh?
>>429780
Bahá'ai
Shit
>>429764
back to /pol/ nazi fuck
Are there any formal "proofs" (ontological arguments etc) for things like paganism, occultism, and magic?
There is for monotheism: Are there any for those?
>>429348
Is this bait?
>>429362
No.
>le how dare you imply the existence of things that contradict my prepackaged one size fits all materialist worldview spoonfed to me by flash in the pan pop sci icons who have a vested interest in promoting the primacy of their chosen profession even in fields where it doesn't belong like all matters spiritual and ethical because they've gotten really good at smashing subatomic particles together maymay
I see people referencing "western europe" or "southern europe". I think its beneficial to agree on what those mean.
So if you will, take a map (I have provided one we can use) and graph according to borders, culture, ethnicity, whatever means you think appropriate, where the borders of these areas are:
>western Europe
>central Europe
>northern Europe
>southern Europe
>eastern Europe
/thread
>>429289
>no central europe
>poland is eastern
>balkan is eastern
I am not sure that fits. Central Europe seems to me distinct enough, with Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Austria having different culture and values from the people east and west of them.
This projection makes Kazakhstan look way bigger than it should.
Southern Europe is a bit too big but whatever.
Since the days of significant scientific achievement, is there even really a point to philosophy? Even the more abstract, meta-physical philosophies can be quantified and adequately and more appropriately explained by science. Of course, my philosophy knowledge stops after the intro course I had to take as a required course in my first year of college, and as I'm a physics major I will admit to both ignorance and bias, which is why I'm asking you guys, in case someone more learned than me can explain it. I'm not going to argue with anyone, I'm not trying to troll or make any one angry, I'm posing a serious question.
As far as I understand it, the ancient Greek philosophers were something like modern scientists, in that their philosophies were meant to explain the universe and they even conducted experiments, I mean a lot of their math and formulas are still used, today, as a foundation of it all, but ever since scientific discovery took off a few centuries ago, philosophy has drifted to more and more abstract things, as science caught up and changed every single idea and understanding of life and the universe.
Parts of philosophy can't be answered by science. For example, for some philosophers, philosophy was about how you should live a good life.
Oh boy, it's this thread again.
Just saying something like "philosophy is dead" or "science can explain everything" is to do philosophy. Philosophy is the bedrock of all human inquiry, so you can't escape it.
>>435298
I think even something like a "good life" could be objectively explained. There are things that are objectively harmful for you, so for good health you avoid them, and there are things that are objectively harmful to other people and to society, so for a good life you avoid them. To live a "good life", you just have to stay in good health and not kill or screw over your fellow man (although that can get all dicey and relative and whatnot, I think it's because we don't have a clear scientific understanding of some things yet).
>>435310
I mean in the sense of philosophers writing out their theories and essaying and debating and whatnot, not "philosophy" in a general sense.
So misogyny/sexism/sociological reasons/etc aside : Why is "God" referred to consistently as a male figure? The act of creation is in itself a predominantly feminine attribute so why is it "wrong" to label Her as a female
Paternal reverence.
>The act of creation is in itself a predominantly feminine attribute
lol
>>429258
>what is giving birth
Creation is by definition feminine. See parthenogenesis.
>>429261
>Creation is by definition feminine.
lol
>qualia don't exist
>consciousness is an illusion
>you don't really feel pain or pleasure, you just think you do
>there are no mental events, you are only imagining them!
Gee thanks, "science".
I like to think I helped contribute to making the hard problem of consciousness one of the top meme arguments on /his/. You're welcome
>>434144
You know, even as someone staunchly opposed to every form of reductive scientism there is, in a way he is right. There is nothing intrinsically "painful" about a pain signal, it's only my perception of that signal that "imagines" I am feeling pain. The Buddha would agree that there is no fixed, ontic identity we can point to and say that's us, that's our "soul-pearl", as Dennett refers to it.
That said, it doesn't explain the existence of this perceptual field in the first place, so Dennett doesn't really succeed in proving anything substantive about consciousness other than "it's kinda tricky lmao"
You can use Hitchen's Razor to solve the problem of Conciousness easily.
1. Conciousness is presented without evidence
2. Therefor we can dismiss it
3. Problem solved.
WW2 soldier excumation in Latvia ( eastern front). Still lot of these soldiers who died in frontline and Soviet Union didn't care about them.
More pictures.
>>428886
> Soviet Union didn't care about them.
What.
About soldiers who died in frontline.
>>433302
Cultural relativism.
They think you white people look ugly and cold.
Honestly I'd prefer it were destroyed.
>>433308
>you
>white
>people
But I'm not white
Quick /his/! Bill and Ted have just landed on your favorite period of time
How radical does it get?
They end up as another casualty of trench warfare.
>>428451
That isn't very radical of you anon
>Bill and Ted in 2004 Iraq
What does /his/ think of outlaws and murderers as folk heroes? Are any of them actually worthy of the veneration they receive?
i think some are a testament to human endurance and ingenuity.
like a natural disaster.
>outlaws and murders
>worthy of the veneration they receive
Gee, what do you think OP?
If Billy the Kid is a folk hero I don't see why Ted Bundy shouldn't be one too.
What are your favorite historical "finds" that ended up being forgeries?
Pic related.
Diary of Ann Frank
Gas chambers
electric chairs at nazi camps
acid pits at nazi camps
man eating bears at nazi camps
vultures that pick at jewish organs at nazi camps
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