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Why are humans and AI often treated differently in cases where they perform nearly identical processes?
With respect to AI, some people appear to have an objection to the idea of
feed[ing an] AI with other people's works and then claim[ing] all the
output as yours.
Let's create the following hypothetical scenario.
An AI and a human art student are…
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I prompt an AI into generating something; who created it: me, the AI, or the AI's author?
I've been struggling with this question recently:
Question: I prompt an AI into generating something; who created it?
I can think of arguments in quite a few directions:
I created it: The AI is an advanced tool (like a computer) that allows me to…
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Do decolonialists have to attack science and modernity?
I’m a professional scientist (mathematician, actually). I’m not a philosopher.
I’ve got a lot of friends well-versed in philosophy, and they all seem to point toward modernity as a byproduct of capitalism, the last one being a byproduct itself of…
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Do humans need some agency over the world around them for their lives to have some sense or purpose?
This is a follow up to this question I was told to revise: If all work is automated, what will humans be able to do? After consideration I think that the only way to salvage that question is to break it up into more questions, so this is the first…
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Why is chinese philosophy usually ignored in western philosophy courses?
Is it because western tradition ignores them? Or because they think it's not philosophy, but mysticism? Or because they are afraid of losing ground to a superior thinking?
Ignorance, prejudice or proselytism? Or something else? Or all of them?
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Is equality an a priori concept, or only determinable through empirical observation?
Let's say I invent a concept X in my own imaginings.
The only property it has is X-ness; it is defined as 'that which is represented by X'.
I have just defined that to be the case.
It seems to me, now, that it must be true that X=X.
X is the same…
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Is there a name for this fallacy when someone says something is good by only pointing out the good things?
A person says that a politician "Jane Doe" is good because he increased the education budget.
(but in reality, Jane doe is also corrupt & racist, whose bad policies lead to the downfall of the economy of the country)
A person says that the…
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Name of the fallacy that "you don't know" implies "the media is hiding it from you"
A very common fallacy used by propagandists has the structure:
Person A presents fact X as support for a theory T that person A tries to prove, adding continuous suggestions about a conspiracy, but
Person B doesn't know fact X,
Person A claims the…
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Why do universities not teach constructive mathematics to CS undergraduates?
I had a conversation with a user on the Internet. And it did indeed wake my interest regarding something that I had also been asking myself long ago. Why do so many universities still teach beginners in computer science classical mathematics and not…
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Why do some physicalists use the Turing Machine as a model of the brain?
It has always puzzled me when people casually make comments like "Since the brain is a Turing Machine...". Just to clarify: I'm talking about generic discussions, not philosophical journals here.
What would lead someone to even speculate about that,…
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Was Plato using strawmen in his dialogues?
In Plato's Dialogues, he often would put words into the mouths of two opposing points-of-view, while inserting a third voice, often initially presented as taking a position between the two viewpoints, to act as an arbiter to decide the merits of the…
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Is Hume's Fork self-refuting?
David Hume wrote:
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter…
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How does posthumanism differ from transhumanism?
How does posthumanism differ from transhumanism?
Specifically, what are the major points of disagreement and regions of overlap between the two movements/schools of thought?
Some critics treat the terms as synonymous, but I have seen others insist…
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Difference between ‘determinism’ and ‘fatalism’
What is the difference between determinism and fatalism?
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What reasons could there be not to teach Spinoza in secondary school?
In The Netherlands, it's on some schools possible to get philosophy taught from the fourth to the sixth grade of high school (that's the age group 15-18). I've done this.
I discovered that Spinoza's doctrine is scarcely taught in our country on…
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