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Larry Sanger

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Yeah, dawg, we’ll see.

The biggest stockholder in the world, Elon Musk, declares—not-so-subtly pushing Grok—that “we are on the event horizon of the singularity”.

And his money is working as hard as anybody’s to bring it about, anyway. And he’ll personally benefit, probably. Yet I remember what he used to say so regularly, that we ought to regulate AI, that it posed an existential threat to humanity, etc., etc.

What, did he change his mind? It’s gonna be a good thing now? Or was he telling us in advance what his plans are, so that later he could say, “Well, I did warn them”? I can’t tell.

All I know is that whoever is at the center of AI dev today is near the center of power—or, the powers behind the government figureheads—which, we’ve been told, are limiting the total number of viable AI platforms to a few, which can be centrally controlled.

New interview with the “Orthodoxy” (no, not *that* Orthodoxy) podcast. Was an interesting discussion. This interviewer is going to be grow quickly if he keeps it up. He’s already interviewed some heavy hitters.

These interviews cover some of the same ground but actually end up going off in interestingly different directions. This one certainly did.

Golly, Grok 3’s feedback on my latest book work is *significantly* more insightful and useful than ChatGPT 4o’s. But then, 4o isn’t the most advanced model that OpenAI offers.

I tried o3-mini-high, and, as is typically the case, the feedback was much shorter and less detailed. Then I tried o1 and got a better result—more useful detail than either 4o or o3-mini-high—but still noticeably worse than Grok 3.

It bothers me that this org that actively throttles me has made such a good AI. I *really* don’t want to give them money…

It seems to me engaging too much in apologetics might lead to bad theological habits. Like, if you’re so busy responding to arguments by atheists, you might fail to see the best grasp of crucial parts of the faith actually depend on some doctrines being, quite frankly, open to skeptical attack. I have in mind, most particularly, the Deus Absconditus.

But in short, my commitment to Christian doctrine does not depend—in the slightest—on my being able to respond to the sorts of objections I used to have. I *can* explain why I no longer find those objections compelling. But I make no guarantees, at all, that my explanations will be brief or even possibly persuasive to skeptics.

So when an atheist says, “Ha ha! You believe that Jonah survived three days in the belly of a fish? LOL!” I’m not sure it is especially crucial to have a glib response prepared. It might actually be better to say, “Yes, it’s very strange, isn’t it? How can it be that Christians believe this? Let’s see…”

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