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Citing Linus Pauling mistaken beliefs, is the fallacy of whataboutery. Pauling was even more mistaken than Ehrman. History is not an exact science. Intelligent folk mistakenly holding silly beliefs...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 hour ago
No objection from me to this, but I don't see the distinction you are trying to make.
The distinction I'm trying to make, is that Ehrman reasoned his way out of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 2 hours ago
It's possible to find some people at all ages who change their minds on things.
I never said it wasn't. The implication is, that Ehrman has had the evidence and...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 4 hours ago
This is just getting started. Where will this be in fifty years? A hundred?
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 4 hours ago
True, dat.
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 6 hours ago
" I've often wondered who would be in control of the world if cats had hands."
Wouldn't matter, the cats would still be in control.
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 7 hours ago
The advent of the Internet created a slew of billionaires - Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and a handful of others. If history repeats itself, AI will produce another slew of billionaires...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 12 hours ago
Musk came in with a lot of money, bought companies he didn't start with tech he didn't invent, has an army of engineers and technicians who do the lift, and suddenly he's a genius....
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago
AI appears to be the creation of our Silicon Valley cyberdudes, and if "social" media like Facebook Farcebook is dropping any clues, there's pretty clearly ample room for...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
Ah yes, the old joke about a man with no education who might go hungry and rob a train car for food. Give the man an education, and he'll steal the railroad. (Edited to add: quotation...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 19 hours ago
Because presently AI is no better than Wikipedia as a learning tool.
For me, AI is better than Wikipedia in several ways - and Gemini at least has improved very noticeably...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 19 hours ago
The man is 69 year old. There has been a number of hypotheses as to why he is so obtuse on this subject to the point of militancy against his peers, and making nonsense shite up that he...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 20 hours ago
And while there is a well-attested concept of "g" in psychometry (the general observation that when people score well or poorly on one kind of cognitive test, they tend to score...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 20 hours ago
Danial, his brain circuits were shaped by decades of repeating the idea that there was a real God. He recognized the evidence that debunked that thinking. He also recognized that the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 20 hours ago
Of course. The question of whether or not some sort of historical jesus existed is completely immaterial to the question of whether anything supernatural exists. If it were possible to disprove a...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 20 hours ago
Not an expert on the subject -- obviously. But if the creation mirrors the creators, then Houston, we may have a problem. AI appears to be the creation of our Silicon Valley cyberdudes, and if...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 20 hours ago
"What did you expect, given its parentage?"
Exactly — and that’s why the ethical responsibility lies not with the machine, but with its makers. An AI doesn’t...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 21 hours ago
The answer to the first question acknowledges that it is a topic of considerable scholarly debate regarding its authenticity. While some scholars argue for a wholly authentic or...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 21 hours ago
You make a strong point, raising the obvious question: which is worse, Artificial Intelligence, or Natural Stupidity? I suspect the former has at least the potential to remedy some of the...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 21 hours ago
I don't think it is a big problem one way or the other whether Jesus existed or not as a kernel around which a myth later crystallized. The problem may never be settled for good to...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 21 hours ago
From Wiki
Sorry to nitpick, but you're giving (some) Wikipedians a case of bruxism here. See: Wikipedia...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 21 hours ago
Humans are a mixed bag. We only know about moral virtue because we've observed it in (some) humans. So it's a question of what humans are standing in AI's moral mirror and which side...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 21 hours ago
It's the moral mirror of its creators. Exactly. And that's what's always been in the back of my mind. Lying, murder, betrayal, self interest -- doesn't get more human than that....
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 22 hours ago
A.I. use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity
Actually the builders and customers of non-renewable electricity capacity are...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 22 hours ago
Since an AI model is trained on a vast number of books, there are all sorts of human-style thinking errors that become far less likely.
Or at least correctable. In my chats...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 23 hours ago