He’s an overrated Jewish reductionist. I read the Moral Landscape. His “free will is an illusion argument” goes something like this: “think of a city. Any city. Which one did you think of? Why didn’t you choose X,y,Z? Did you choose (random obscure tiny village in remote area L, M, or N? No! Because you have no idea they existed! Therefore you’re not free to choose things you don’t know about. Therefore you have no free will.”
I’m not making up that analogy. He makes that argument with a straight face.
The goal of modern neuroscientists and transhumanists will be to convince us that God is finally dead, and that we are so far behind the status quo of what our intelligence should be compared to some techno-guru moron, they will swindle the gullible with technology (see covid vaccines), until human minds can be controlled and reality dictated to them. Just as Sam is already trying to do. And Elon's sales pitch behind Neuralink is that we need to get smarter to compete with robots.
These people are laughable, low emotional IQ, and should go do their utopias on islands far away from the rest of us. We can already enjoy life greatly, but they want to dump their garbage on everyone.
Anyone who is not teaching you how amazing and valuable we are, how priceless our consciousness is, how epic our genetics already are, how amazing life on Earth is, and instead tries to sell you some other bullshit, you've found a Scam Artist.
Because that type of reductionist question is so mundane and lacking detail, it gets a plain answer and a quick response. A person will most likely say the first city that comes to mind because we are optimized to keep the flow of a conversation going, and there is no need to think about the names for 30 cities when we weren't asked to. But to use that as evidence we don't have free will is stupid.
If he had a more accurate question like "think of a city, any city, including a non-existing one, or a mythical one..." then he would get more interesting answers. But it's still such a mundane question that he will get very basic answers.
It's almost like he's trying to coin a way to Turing test people, but it comes off as nearly retarded to me.
He’s one of those people that thinks the Socratic dialectic is a valid tool to make scientific deduction without experimentation or data collection. It’s fucking obnoxious because 90 IQ atheists will eat it up.
As far as I know he’s another Neil Degrasse Tyson figure foisted up by the establishment by credentialism alone. I don’t think he’s ever done real research. Just talked
What an idiot. We are presented with choices. Yes, the powers that be could manipulate the choices presented to us, which can create a perception of free will that isn't free -- and maybe that was the point he attempted and failed to make -- but simply not knowing isn't enough to make that judgement.
The moment he opened his mouth and said "because you have no free will" he ended his career.
He’s an overrated Jewish reductionist. I read the Moral Landscape. His “free will is an illusion argument” goes something like this: “think of a city. Any city. Which one did you think of? Why didn’t you choose X,y,Z? Did you choose (random obscure tiny village in remote area L, M, or N? No! Because you have no idea they existed! Therefore you’re not free to choose things you don’t know about. Therefore you have no free will.”
I’m not making up that analogy. He makes that argument with a straight face.
So he is a Jew? My jewdar was going off pretty strong about him but I couldn't find any conclusive info.
Why even ask. Look at his disgusting nose
Pick a card, any card, did you choose a Jack?
Neuroscience!
The goal of modern neuroscientists and transhumanists will be to convince us that God is finally dead, and that we are so far behind the status quo of what our intelligence should be compared to some techno-guru moron, they will swindle the gullible with technology (see covid vaccines), until human minds can be controlled and reality dictated to them. Just as Sam is already trying to do. And Elon's sales pitch behind Neuralink is that we need to get smarter to compete with robots.
These people are laughable, low emotional IQ, and should go do their utopias on islands far away from the rest of us. We can already enjoy life greatly, but they want to dump their garbage on everyone.
Anyone who is not teaching you how amazing and valuable we are, how priceless our consciousness is, how epic our genetics already are, how amazing life on Earth is, and instead tries to sell you some other bullshit, you've found a Scam Artist.
Reductionism! Good one...
Because that type of reductionist question is so mundane and lacking detail, it gets a plain answer and a quick response. A person will most likely say the first city that comes to mind because we are optimized to keep the flow of a conversation going, and there is no need to think about the names for 30 cities when we weren't asked to. But to use that as evidence we don't have free will is stupid.
If he had a more accurate question like "think of a city, any city, including a non-existing one, or a mythical one..." then he would get more interesting answers. But it's still such a mundane question that he will get very basic answers.
It's almost like he's trying to coin a way to Turing test people, but it comes off as nearly retarded to me.
How does he not see the flaw in his reasoning?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7t_Uyi9bNS4
He’s one of those people that thinks the Socratic dialectic is a valid tool to make scientific deduction without experimentation or data collection. It’s fucking obnoxious because 90 IQ atheists will eat it up. As far as I know he’s another Neil Degrasse Tyson figure foisted up by the establishment by credentialism alone. I don’t think he’s ever done real research. Just talked
What an idiot. We are presented with choices. Yes, the powers that be could manipulate the choices presented to us, which can create a perception of free will that isn't free -- and maybe that was the point he attempted and failed to make -- but simply not knowing isn't enough to make that judgement.
We are incapable of knowing everything.
He's.... got problems. I'm not sure why he was ever propped up as an intellectual heavyweight.