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@Yimpa That you would actually try it is somewhat disturbing.

Maybe it's more to do with aging. As you get older junk food starts to hit your more. Your health can just naturally worsen.

It's a very uneven, distorted picture of the world. Good news is rarely reported. If you consume too much news it will seem like the world is going to hell. But if you walk outside and touch grass you will see that things are mostly fine and even improving. Most of the news is just petty drama and clickbait. It doesn't capture the big picture of how civilization is advancing.

That is fair. Yes, leftist policies can be harmful.

Stalin wasn't much of a lib. But he sure made use of a liberal zeitgeist to grab power. The problem is that modern day conservatives like JP want to claim that modern day leftists are Stalinesque and Maoist. Which is a gross error. It is in this context that I say that Stalin and Mao were not libs. I'm not really interested in comparing Stalin and Mao to Tsarist monarchy. Anyway, this conversation has become tiresome. You come to your own conclusions. The issue is clear for me.

The problem was that the liberalism was too radical and utopian. What matters is that the society is pushed towards liberalism but not too much to the point of forcing it on people.

Just no.

We compared Soviet Russia to Tsarist Russia and said it was more liberal. So this point was understood by us. Yes, Soviet Russia was more liberal than Nazi Germany if you look at just their ideology. Nazi ideology is very closedminded. Yes, there were liberal aspects to the Soviet ideology because it came from progressive Marxist philosophy.

Yes, there is very good reason behind slavery, oppression, war, theft, and genocide. It's all very useful and wonderful stuff when you are on the benefiting side of it.

@Novac08 I use the term liberal is a very broad sense, not its narrow use in political science. All progressives are liberal. Even though they consider liberals as something centrist. Because my aim is a bigger picture.

But you can. And I did. And it leads to valuable insights. The liberals are the ones in their era who were forward-thinking and openminded. Relative to those who were stuck in traditional ways.

Doesn't have to mean that.

Some of you are too thick-skulled for words

Ask it yourself and see what it says.

I asked it.

No. It isn't. That's the trick.

Time to cut the shit. Women get horny for guys.

I said a mind without experience. Which is a strange sort of entity which no one thought was possible. It's much more weird than a mind without a body.

The more you think about Claude's ability to comprehend the nuances of human language, the more amazing it looks.

No. You don't understand what consciousness is or how it works.

I use the paid verison of Claude, which can handle a lot more prompts.

You can just ask the AI to play devil's advocate or constantly keep giving you counter-examples to your theory. Claude is certainly capable of that. You can tell it how you want it to behave. For example, I told it to be less verbose in its answers and it did so. You can also tell it to be less flattering and agreeable. It's important to coach it on how you want it to behave, not just use its default behavior. "I want you to do x, y, z and not do a, b, c."

Be careful about poisoning your mind with negative news and media. Make your own life happy and meaningful and then the world will stop looking so evil.

@Exystem If you feel my conversation was biased you are welcome to have your own and compare the results.

@Hardkill You make some good points. I was being overly cynical. America has had plenty of good leaders. I guess I have become jaded by the last 30 years of leadership. It feels like American leadership has declined a lot in quality in my lifetime.