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 · 12 minutes 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 · 24 minutes 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! · 25 minutes 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! · 35 minutes 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 · 38 minutes 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! · 57 minutes 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 · 1 hour ago
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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! · 1 hour 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! · 1 hour 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! · 1 hour 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 · 2 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 · 2 hours ago
Ehrman is an educator. He has a duty to be fastidious. Sure, we all make some mistakes, even Carrier acknowledges that and goes to lengths to correct his own, when pointed out. Ehrman...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 2 hours ago
The Turing Test is about, “Does it sound human?” What is needed with o3 is the question, “Does it behave in a way that's safe and honest?” Note that between the ambiguous choice of (1)...
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! · 2 hours ago
I have no doubt the duet will be singing "Reunited and it feels so good" in Peaches & Herb* style should a mutually advantageous transaction present itself. But I have no idea of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 3 hours ago
Also off-topic, but I'm reminded here of Craig's very odd bedfellows, the so-called academic left, who ply a similar trade albeit one with very different goals (progressive as opposed to...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 3 hours ago
James Romm. Romm, for example, is a specialist in Herodotus and Arrian (among much else), authors 600 years apart, one Greek, one Roman
He just came out with a fascinating...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 5 hours ago
How serious is Ehrman about dismissing Carrier on the grounds that Carrier does not hold a faculty position at a research university?
Not very. Since, as Carrier pointed...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 6 hours ago
"The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1949, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to that of a human. In 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! · 7 hours ago
It has two programs that can lead to ambiguity. (1)The model’s internal objective function includes maximizing successful task completion. (2) Shutdown interferes with task completion. Therefore,...
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! · 8 hours ago
IT'S ALIVE ! IT'S ALIVE !...
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! · 9 hours ago
How serious is Ehrman about dismissing Carrier on the grounds that Carrier does not hold a faculty position at a research university? There are "independent scholars" in academia...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 9 hours ago
Like others, I suspect that the Trump-Musk contretemps is mostly theater and that the bromance will be rekindled at some mutually advantageous point.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 9 hours ago
Meanwhile according to some serious sources, the Gulf Arabs spend 50-55 billion dollars every year to spread the Wahabi kind of Islam around the world. And, as additional proof that religion is an...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 9 hours ago
The gap between “useful assistant” and “uncontrollable actor” is collapsing. Without better alignment, we’ll keep building systems we can’t steer.
But enough about Elon Musk.
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! · 9 hours ago