I’ve also been to a county meeting like that. The topic at hand was expanding a greenway, but one Karen took up most of the meeting complaining about (what I have to assume is her imagination) people smuggling hookers into the city by canoe.
Easy. Use open source code and licenses to make my software ubiquitous. Convince manufacturers they need my software preinstalled at no cost to them. Once every piece of hardware is on my system, close access to it and say it’s for your safety.
I think there’s plenty of non-Linux people here, you just don’t notice them because they have interesting things to talk about instead of their OS testing hobby.
I knew someone who peeled their corndogs and ate the parts separately.
Any day now I’ll start watching Breaking Bad
Oh I forgot Catalina existed. That’s going on the shopping list
AI goes back way before machine learning. I’ve been familiar with the term “AI” in computing since at least the 90s and I’m sure it’s older than that.
At this point, when I see it slapped onto a product I assume it’s unrelated to LLMs and just a marketing term the same way “organic” is slapped onto every food product.
A) you don’t have a choice. Christianity teaches that our lives are deterministic, God chose who will and won’t make it into heaven. If he decided to design you to be a sinner who won’t accept him then that’s your fate.
B) Pharoah never had a chance. It wasn’t himself or the devil who made him reject God, the Bible itself that God hardened his heart and made him act the way he did. Same with Judas, he was chosen to fulfill prophesy. Sure, a different follower could have betrayed him, but it had to be someone because God decided that someone had to take the fall. He wasn’t even able to repent afterwards, even though he tried.
C) Almost everyone ever born won’t make it to heaven according to Christianity. Many are called but few are chosen—as you mentioned narrow is the path according to scripture. It also states that “many” (interpreted majority of) Christians will stand before him in judgment and be rejected because they didn’t believe in him the right way. Performing miracles and healing the sick isn’t enough if you weren’t the right denomination with the right version of the Bible.
D) the beast and antichrist are both human, one a politician and one a religious leader who team up to deceive the world
Have you never heard of Kim Peek aka Rain Man? The guy read a book an hour, tens of thousands over his lifetime and could recite any line of text verbatim and tell you what page and line number it was on, but otherwise he’s what anyone would call an idiot. He couldn’t dress himself or do really anything with all that information other than memorize it. He could quote any book but couldn’t say in his own words what it meant bc there was no processing/understanding. Ai is kinda like that except it’s somehow also bad at remembering things or getting facts straight. It’s almost an accomplishment in its own right for a computer to be capable of forgetting how to do math.
Gemini, for example, is really good at accumulating information—Google is the biggest data aggregator in history after all, but it’s possibly the worst Ai in terms of quality checking it’s sources. I always read the Ai summary when Googling something and check the sources, it’s sort of a hobby of mine at this point. I’d have to estimate I’ve read 400+ Ai summaries and not a single time has it not hallucinated in its response. Even the parts that it quoted directly are often not actually in the original source and the sources listed are low-credibility to start.
I don’t hate AI. I think the companies hosting AI are unethical & doing real harm to the world, but the same can be said for all tech companies.
The biggest reason I think people shouldn’t use Ai is because it’s literally stupid. It’s very good at language and that’s it. If/when it’s correct about something factually it’s chance & because it’s repeating something it’s read enough times. I know it’s easy to become convinced it actually understands what it’s talking about bc it’s truly mastered language, but it absolutely cannot understand. People who have real intelligence can spot the difference.
For me it was the fundamental contradiction between God being both good & all powerful. If (S)he created everybody exactly the way they are, how are they to condemn anyone to hell? Some people are born incapable of communicating or understanding anything, some people are born with their wires crossed and are just evil, some are born in a time/place where they never hear “the good news”. Why would a good and loving God condemn them forever for being exactly what (S)he designed them to be?
The Christian Bible I grew up with was rife with examples of people God created and designed specifically to be antagonists so they could be punished: Cain, Pharoah, Ahab & Jezebel, Judas Iscariot, Ananias & Sapphira, The Beast & Antichrist, etc.
I’ve wanted to get into making stained glass art for about a decade now. I’ve spent countless hours watching instructional videos and researching, I just can’t justify dropping a thousand dollars on just beginning a hobby, not to mention the space & clean air requirements
THAT IS ALSO FORBIDDEN
Also they need to ban Ai videos from YT Kids
Awfully soon after the Meta AI exploit. I wonder if this is an admission that anthropic has access to government systems that Trump doesn’t want people to get into.