I am immensely proud to know Katherine Birbalsingh, “Britain’s Strictest Headmistress,” due to our shared interest in very early reading.
How I escaped Twitter
Welp, I was wrong, and Tim was right; my testimony was not ignored.
Golly, that’s as good as I’ve seen. Grok 3 really does seem to be significantly better than ChatGPT (and DALL-E).
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.
Five Times August has become, basically, the protest singer of the new anti-Establishment.
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…
Here’s the YouTube Link to hear Larry and I speak about his conversation to Christianity youtube.com/live/MO4Y1c…
I’m hosting Larry Sanger on the Break It Down Show in about 30 mins. We’ll be live on X and YouTube @peteaturner
I know this is going to mark me out as a homophobic racist misogynist, but I just don’t think Jesus was a queer black woman. Nor do I think it’s quite right that this actress’ most recent role was a wicked witch.
Key terms in theological discussions that distinguish denominations is “high church” and “low church.”
I maintain, based on my acquaintance with early church history, that the early church was most decidedly “low church.”
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…”
Isn’t anybody selling beefy computers with an independent (offline) LLM installed?
Seems like it would be a big seller.
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DEI is sadly dying because it was a foolish mistake for progressives to try and change equality of opportunity, a concept with broad support to the regressive policy of equality of outcomes which very few people believe in. justcaws.ca/2024/03/say…
I thought (after listening a few minutes) that this was an actual response video to my Christian conversion testimony, by human beings, but no. Turns out, a friend could recognize the voices and that they were those of Google NotebookLM! No wonder they sounded so chirpy and weirdly in-sync.