I wanted tell Finagle to FUCK OFF! You debate like a mirror. Your arguments are shallow and made by other people. You don’t read people’s posts and your deductive logical reasoning is at the level fo a two year old.
Fuck you. Fuck Off.
Oh yeah, this is a Metaphysical Reality, Finagle. That means that I am just a figment of your imagination, which means I am you, which means you think you are a FUCKING ASSHOLE.
Now you, prick sod, prove me wrong.
Right the fuck on, brother!!
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ohhhh, a poster named Finagle.
I thought you were railing against the fundamental perversity of the universe.
Never mind.
uhhhhh. . . . there was one?
I’d dearly love to join you in your riteous war against this poster who most dreadfully wounded you, if I had any fucking idea what you were talking about.
What does a guy have to do to get a link around here?
Finagle IS the personification of a fundemental pervisity of the universe. He’s just too stupid to realize he is that fucking horrible. He would be a really cool fucking asshole if he knew that about himself.
Sorry, I hope that works.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=115009
I hadn’t read that thread beyond the first few posts, but I always feel that if a Great Debate spawns a Pit thread, it’s worth checking out. So I did.
Sorry, GreyMatters, but it looked to me like Finagle was kicking your ass all up and down that debate. Further, he was using cogent, logical arguments, whereas you were just spouting a bunch of sophomoric existentialist claptrap. And resorting to personal insults.
From Finagle:
Heh heh. 
Sorry, man…if anyone was being a “fucking asshole” in that thread…well, it wasn’t him.
IMHO, of course.
Whether or not I care about the shitstorm, this is simply priceless:
A fucking thing of beauty! [wipes tear from eye] Must remember that line!
Looks like someone got their feelings hurt when someone else disagreed with them.
Sorry,** GreyMatters**, but the way I read the thread was you postulated an idea, he disagreed, bringing up the Turing test, and you disagreed with his interpretation with the Turing test, and you started in with the personal remarks: “You are so far off base about the application of science here that you may not be able to understand what is coming next.” It just went downhill from there. OK, you disagreed with his logic, and that’s o.k., that’s what we’re here for, but instead of arguing you got personal. I thought Finagle was doing a pretty good job of ignoring your personal attacks and defending his position, but you just wouldn’t let it go, getting more and more personal, and he attacked back. Is there more history behind you two than just this one thread, because I don’t understand your animosity.
Fuck you too Ferrous.
I am not looking for support, approval, or trying to win a contest here.
But, answer me this oh wise Ferret; how do you answer a question that hasn’t been defined. Of-FUCKING-course the best answer is going to be pure bullshit.
But, here you give it a try. Go to GD and solve the riddle. Not only will you be a hero here, but you most likely be touted as the smartest man alive.
Oh yeah. Fuck you Finagle.
Geez, fuck me too, because I don’t agree with you? That’s your answer for everything, I guess. I’m glad you’re not here for approval or support because that’s no way to go about it.
Everyone: we disagree
You: Fuck everyone!
Brilliant.
Another fucking Moron that refuses to read the posts. I told Ferrous to fuck off. Not you. I was joking around with Ferrous.
But, now you deserve one too, now. Even though you and Ferrous are right.
Fuck off AlaItalia.
You wound me. Yeah, Finagle is the asshole here. :rolleyes:
Nah. If I had anything meaningful to contribute to that debate, I’d have posted there. (See, unlike some people, I usually try keep my mouth shut if I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about.) My comments are strictly about you characterizing someone as a fucking asshole simply because they don’t agree with you.
Grow up.
This is some great material GreyMatter, should make for a predictable thread.
I’ll just take my fuck off now, if you don’t mind, so I don’t have to come back after work.
Oh, you snuck one in on me. That was a joke? Well, consider me whooshed then. You seem to have a rather…um, unique sense of humor.
Ferrous, concerning the actual content of the GD thread, when dealing with Philosophical shit ANYTHING goes. It is philosophy, right? The worst that could happen is you say something someone else has already said.
I wasn’t characterizing Finagle because he disagreed with me. There were plenty before him I could have pissed off at then.
What pissed me off was: I wrote the question was moot. Then Finagle writes over and over again that I am wrong because Turing says the question is meaningless.
Now I could be all fucked here but I really really really did mean the same thing as meaningless when I wrote moot, but DIPSHITFinalge, just kept on saying wrong.
So, that’s it. That is why I am pissed. Not because I was saying anything astounding and he wasn’t getting it. It was because Iwas saying the same fucking thing and he disagreed. The least he could have done was read my shit if he was going to comment on it.
To those i left out: FUCK OFF.
What, no funny take on my name? I am so disappointed.
So you admit you’re just mad because someone disagreed with you after **you **said the question was meaningless. Why couldn’t he just agree with you that the question was meaningless? What a jerk, not just taking your word for it and daring to argue with you. Obviously, if you say the question is meaningless, then it must be, and that’s the end of the discussion.
This moron did read your posts in that thread, and while I may agree with you that the question was moot/meaningless, that doesn’t mean Finagle is an asshole and worthy of a Pit thread just for disagreeing with us and giving back as good as he got.
Actually, erislover, I think it’s more of a shitshower. Or perhaps a light shitdrizzle.
with periods of wail
Not quite. You said it was impossible to say whether AI was possible or not, because consciousness has not been defined. He said that it was not necessary to define consciousness in order to discuss AI.
You also disagreed about the point of the Turing Test. You argued that it means that all questions about consciousness are meaningless. He argued that the test gives us a handy work-around so that we don’t need to worry about what consciousness is.
Perhaps you need to practice your reading comprehension, just a bit?