Recent content by LordsFire

If you assume that nuclear warfare or some other cause of civilizational collapse magically deletes all traces of civilization, sure. In the far, far more realistic scenario where we are surrounded by resource-rich ruins, things are much easier. Do you think all of the power lines are going to...

You just do not understand almost everything when it comes to advanced technology. So long as the knowledge is not lost, and a handful of basic tools, like pick-axes, shovels, hammers, etc, survive, we could rebuild from the ruins of civilization to 80's level technology within a generation...

They are fairly rare, but rejection of the Catholic hierarchical heresies is fairly common. There's literally a whole collection of denominations named for rejection of it.

Generally, Soli's view of acceptable philosophy seems to correspond to what pads his ego, and very little else.

This gets into a lot of things influenced by multiple factor. I'll try to break it down into individual factors to keep it easy to comprehend. 1. If you pay people to do something, they're more likely to do that thing. If you don't pay them to do something, they're less likely to do that. This...

One of the hilarious things is that if Soli knew anything about Christianity, he'd know that one of the key tenets is rejection of the authority of human priests. In Christianity, the relationship with God is direct, not through intermediaries.

The hilarity of an atheist of all people saying this is truly immense. Atheism basically exists for people to self-justify attempting to escape objective morality.

So, what was the first forever war for Israel?

And here were are, just making the same circle again. I went back and looked at the start of the thread, and literally my first argument presented here still has not been answered, no matter how many times I present it. AI is not magic. It's a mathematical process. It does not have unlimited...

...I have made both of these arguments. This latest series of debate I primarily was focusing on why even if AI pushed 90% of people out of current work, the way economics work more jobs would be created for them, so unemployment would not be permanent. That argument was framed in an 'if'...