For a minute there, I felt bad for telling him that his posts were bullshit and that he needed to get some mental help. Not so much now.
Intervention is an illusion.
Regards,
Shodan
Ah - even more fool me. So much for believing in humanity 
So you really think he is a Pure Trolling Troll, giggling at me/us about his faux existential angst while we try ways to speak constructively with him? Sigh.
The OP could get about 20 or so Dopers to simultaneously PM Intervention spam to Machineaforce. That should go over well.
On a more interesting note, the movie Ex Machina was wildly overrated.
He could only imagine what that would be like.
Yeah, but the recent Star Wars sequels took the Caleb and Nathan characters in a TOTALLY unexpected direction.
I hated that movie.
Yeah, I mean how do you even pronounce it? Ex Muh-SHEEN-uh? Ex MAH-cheen-uh? WTF-- is that even English???
What if illusion is illusory and all there really is, is reality.
Man, THAT would suck.
Did you ever wonder if, like, when you’re dreaming, that’s the real world and when you think you’re awake, you’re really dreaming? That kinda blows my mind, man. It, like, totally screws with reality!!
Heh. That could be fodder for an entirely new discussion. Couldn’t a solipsist be able to benefit from setting out certain postulates and checking those postulates against his* personal experiences, to see if there’s significant divergence from what the postulates would predict?
*(or her. It could be a “her.”)
Talk about tedious…that movie was that.
Thanks - now my head hurts.
Regards,
Shodan
Add some weed smoke and Pink Floyd playing in a dorm room, and this is how the Matrix movies got written…
Have you been watching Legion …
That’s cruel on several levels. First it will send Machinaforce into fits of conniption-like existential angst, and then later, when he’s calmed down a bit, it will very likely cause him to plague the board with yet another thread, asking that very question because he must have the answer in order to assuage the existential Weltschmerz that you, John Mace, have inflamed in this blameless young philosopher. I mean, what’s the good of that? Which, come to think of it, is itself a terrific question that Machinaforce could pose via another new thread. What’s the good* of anything, really?
*And what is “good”?
Pancakes.
You jest, my friend, but I would suggest that there is a deeply interesting epistemological question here about the nature of “good”, viz. - whether banning Machinaforce can be judged as an objective universal good from the perspective of a Kantian moral imperative. Applying the semantic ascent principle of contextualism, we arrive at the inescapable conclusion that there is no a priori objective sense in which banning Machinaforce could be anything but “good”, and moreover, we can also infer that allowing his continued infestation of the board would be – in the contextualist sense of moral epistemology – “bad”, or at least, within the strict meaning of experiential foundationalism, “extremely annoying”.
I think there is a lot here for future philosophers to ruminate about.
That I cannot answer. But I do know what is best in life.
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