This entire debate does hinge on finding a plant willing to lower itself to brainbomb's intellectual level for the sake of a relationship. I admire brainbomb's optimism in this venture, but it's asking a lot. Perhaps an older tree in her late 600s would be excited enough by brainbomb's relative yout...

They wouldn't be human. They'd be aliens who are remarkably similar to humans. In all honesty I don't think it would change our understanding of anything. We are quite used to remarkably similar animals having very different evolutionary histories. Rabbits and hares, for example. Besides, a lot of e...

What are you talking about here? Do you mean humans from Earth who have colonised other planets for a few generations and who may now genetically differ slightly from the earthbound norm, or do you mean a life form that independently evolved on another planet along near identical lines to humans on ...

Have they made a known contribution, intentionally or otherwise, to their language?

(An example of an intentional contributor being Shakespeare, and an unintentional contributor being Sweet Fanny Adams)

They've been listening to Brainbomb and have risen up

I'm not sure what a nonsense essay about a "semi-conscious AI that lacks consciousness" is supposed to prove, other than to demonstrate that ChatGPT has no real understanding of what it's writing

An AI can't do these things. An AI can search through its memory banks for human responses to questions about the right to life and self defense, throw them through a set of algorithms to merge them together in a pattern that has some kind of logical and grammatical sense, and spit out something tha...

If you were to create a reference book containing a treasure trove of snippets and concepts from their works, could you justifiably call it a Brontësaurus?

Actually, sod that question. Too few left.

Is it Emily Brontë? Famous for writing the only book from the Brontë sisters worth reading

Singer?

If a slug becomes an endangered species it will have protected status. Lord, no. That's not how these things work. I dare say we've lost several species of slug in our lifetime and were never even aware of it. If a slug was to be protected it would likely be because it was associated with an endang...

Both have zero rights

No it doesn't. AI mimics intelligence, but doesn't have any true intelligence as such. They're little more than complex versions of the MENACE program. Which is rather fun to watch as it "learns" to beat you at noughts and crosses, but isn't remotely intelligent

https://www.mscroggs.co.uk/menace/

No

Did I miss the bit where we ruled out Blighty?

Ora, virtually every successful modern society has valued monogamous relationships. Even if you disregard the clear survival of the fittest evidence, it is obvious enough from first principles. To raise a family requires stability, and in a non-monogamous relationship that is far harder to achieve. ...

Being something of an old romantic, I am firmly wedded to the belief that people are better off in monogamous long term relationships. The difference between a bisexual person in such a relationship with someone of the opposite sex and a straight person is essentially none, much as the difference be...

My personal view is that the majority of people are bisexual, its just that a lot of them don't realise, or aren't willing to admit it. I suspect that there may be an element of truth in this. But I also suspect that the majority of bisexuals will have a more satisfying and enriching life if they l...

Yes

Surely it's less a matter of scale and more a matter of what system of checks and balances exist within a particular nation? China, for instance, is rather larger than the US in terms of population, and yet considerably more effective in applying Presidential will. I would be curious to hear, howeve...

Even better!

Is he on this collection of lists?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Americans