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AI questions
Asking whether AI is intelligent or creative is the wrong question. The question we should be asking is why we care whether AI is... Is it just because we want to understand the nature of intelligence or creativity, or it is about the fear to lose Sapien's superiority, or...
Jun 11, 20251 min read
Food culture: high vs low
Many would consider France high food culture and China as nice but on the lower end. However, there are lots of similarities of what both cultures eat. Think of offal/tripe/liver, snails, pig's trotter, calf's head. At the end of the day, it seems that both just have a much wider range of food that they source. So what differentiate the high and low?
Jun 4, 20251 min read
External voices/calling
Schizophrenia is about hearing voices, but hearing or asking for God's message is about those external voices/calling. How are the two differ, both from a more subjective (the person who is hearing the voice) and objective (not the person who hears) point of view?
May 15, 20251 min read
The morality of gold-diggers
We can look down to the gold-diggers, but if there is limited deception (to hide the digging), and if he is happy during the time with the gold-digger, do we have to question the morality of this event?
May 14, 20251 min read
DNA mix-up
If a number of medical procedures (eg b one marrow transplant, organ transplantation, allogeneic transplants) can introduce donor DNA into a recipient, how it remains justified to use DNA to detect/sentence a criminal? (or as long as those procedures are fairly uncommon, this is still statistically fine?)
May 6, 20251 min read
Crispr editing
Gene editing will only be able to editing single gene. So what about those traits/disease that are caused by the interplay of multiple genes, or any other unintended consequences of editing one thing but impacting on others?
May 6, 20251 min read
Literature genres
Literature in different context could treasure different kind of literature. For example, essay collections (poems in the old days) hold greater privilege in Chinese literature than novels. And now I've tried and finished some essay collections in English, but somehow I don't seem to get as much joy like when I read the Chinese ones. Is this habit, familiarity or something else?
May 1, 20251 min read
Bully as Nietzsche's Master or slave
Bully can't be Nietzsche's slave in his typology a bully clearly isn't weak. Will this mean that bully would be considered one example of strength etc that Masters demonstrates? Both is troublesome...
Apr 21, 20251 min read
Justification, excuses and apologies
Justification (justified or excuses) can be found for almost every behaviors, due to confirmation bias or other needs. Could this be why someone never admit wrong or apologize (that they always find sufficient justification for what they did)?
Apr 17, 20251 min read
Anniversaries
Calendar dates are among the easiest for the algorithm to pick up. It often seems/feels uncivilized not to send congratulation upon the reminder it triggers. All might easily go unaware without the algorithm. But why do people care about anniversaries? and how many care or celebrate their work anniversaries?
Apr 17, 20251 min read
(Repeated) performance
Each performance is often unique for the audience, but for the performers themselves, it is not only practiced many times, but the performance itself, is also often repeated over and over. Of course, audience reaction would still be different each time, and of course precisely because of the efforts needed to put up a good show that it is unlikely and would be wasteful if one show is only performed once, but do they sometimes get tired of the repetition? Or the audience, thos
Apr 17, 20251 min read
High heel and bounded feet
Of course bounded feet are much more extreme, but it essentially also make feet look smaller (front view) and make women walk in smaller steps, like high heels. What beauty standard this reflects?
Apr 15, 20251 min read
Computer and methaphor
If LLM 'proves' that language might be very much like computer, like what Columbia (2009) says, how much does LLM understand/can work with metaphor?
Apr 9, 20251 min read
(The limit of) changing perspective
If informing hotel cleaners that what they do is not only just cleaning, but also great workout help them lose weight, would telling...
Mar 26, 20251 min read
Outsourcing judgements
Is pure internal judgement still relevant/applicable? Think of cases of one truly doesn't care about social norm or what others think....
Mar 25, 20251 min read
Inseperatedness and detachment
Is this a manifestation of a typical eastern approach to contradiction: on one hand Buddhism insists that everything is connected; on the...
Mar 25, 20251 min read
Profession in prestige
In the 'very' old days, top 'professions' included philosophers (in ancient Greece, though that is probably less about philosophy per se,...
Mar 24, 20251 min read
Mind and heart
Meditation is to quiet the mind , says English; in Chinese, the same is described as quieting the heart . Wondering what other words...
Mar 24, 20251 min read
The A(G)I and human battle
We all know that AI has beaten human in typical intelligence games (eg. chess, go), more sophisticated games (poker, Dota 2, StarCraft II...
Mar 19, 20251 min read
Academic for professional disciplines
Many academic domains for professional disciplines, think of law, architect, psychology, performing arts, engineering, are...
Mar 13, 20251 min read
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