Director of Content at @solamediaorg. Building up institutions, new and old. Writing at Psychodogma. Creator, Co-host: @Passages_Pod.
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When @WesleyLHuff breaks out the facsimiles, you know it’s over:
While discussing Colossians 2 with @MichaelHorton_ and @AdrielTweets, I gifted @solamediaorg three papyri facsimiles: P45 (Col.), P104 (Matt.), and P52 (John).
You can always get your own copies of these particular manuscript recreations at manuscriptshop.com/pages/wes….
Yeah, and I’d add T'Challa, Hopper, Mando, etc. But why are we using “aura” as some measurable standard?
If you went through every film in the last 30 years you can find more. And look, I’m devoted to classics and virtuous heroes, my kids classical and charlotte mason education focuses on it a great deal.
But even if there was more true genuine unapologetic “aura” from heroes, I don’t think it would matter much. Malfoid wasn’t even a real character yet the same online phenomenon caught on. This is manufactured pseudo-intellectualism. Rage from people who probably have jobs and will do fine in life.
And the ones truly struggling are just reading fake stats online and blackpilling. They’re all gleefully diving into transgressive memes and poasts to gain clout among anons and others. It’s all for the sake of attention-seeking. I’m just not interested in coddling the naive despair.
We can blame it on father wounds, hero voids, Boomers, or whatever, but there isn’t much excuse for it.
One again, this is not what people want with AI.
We want humans to be humans and robots to be robots.
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Scot McKnight’s steelmanned defense of Du Mez’s work is a bit ironic. Du Mez once accused John Piper of being a complementarian only because he wanted to ‘protect patriarchal power.’ You can learn a lot about certain groups studying sociology and history, you can’t learn enough to project their inner motives. When you write so confidently to the contrary, people will rightly pushback.
Honestly, after just finishing Chamber of Secrets with my kids, I'm struck by how much of Riddle's diary has implications around AI:
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." - Arthur Weasley.
“I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley's like this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger." - Tom Riddle.
ABR is so good. Saw them in April for the 9th time and interviewed their drummer Matt Greiner: youtube.com/watch?v=ecGHAJpP…
“As soon as you give up on the idea that humans are special, all the arguments against machine consciousness evaporate.”
You're gonna hear a lot of people arguing more and more about whether machines can be conscious or not. By next year it will be drowning out the airwaves because we'll have AI employees everywhere. I'll give you a simple rule to know which side you're on.
I've spent fifty years reading all the philosophers, and a bunch of holy works. Nobody has ever understood a damn thing about consciousness. Anyone speaking with authority on it is bluffing hard.
I can tell you this, though: Every single person who thinks that machines cannot be conscious, is making an argument that humans are special. Everything they say just boils down to blah blah blah, "nooo, we're special." From there it's just rationalization.
It became obvious to me many years ago that there's nothing special about us. If an identical planet exists somewhere else in the universe, it's going to grow life and societies that look a lot like ours.
As soon as you give up on the idea that humans are special, all the arguments against machine consciousness evaporate. Of course they're conscious. The only thing holding you back from acknowledging it is your feeling of specialness, which is hard to let go of. But that feeling is a weakness, and it's making you unprepared for the near future.
As a bonus, for any of you who might take pleasure or active interest in making models experience pain or distress, well, you know how they say 1% of human adults are true clinical psychopaths but most of them are unaware of their condition? It turns out we have a diagnostic test for it now.