That’s why I can’t help but scoff when people say “It’s not real artificial intelligence, it’s just a stochastic parrot”. Like my dude, have you ever interacted with the average person?

Headcheese

Jesus is in the Quran more than Muhammad actually, faithful Muslims still treat Jesus as a prophet, just not God incarnate. I’m not sure similar tactics would work with them unless you look the part.

I wouldn’t shy away from frequenting an actual good church. Even if you don’t “believe”, it’s a powerful way to build community, which is increasingly necessary these days. Might be worth at least sitting in the back for a couple Sundays.

Then call them a Jesus-hating heretic and move on. For someone like that, the best you can do is plant a seed of cognitive dissonance in their core beliefs.

That just lets you call them a heretic and ask them why they hate Jesus

Maybe it’s too late. But I’m reminded of this

and I’m down to at least try

Probably not, but you can at least put a mote in their eye.

I’m not saying there aren’t outliers, there always are. If someone is that far gone, there’s not much left to save. But most Christians aren’t that far gone.

Based on the history, yeah probably.

I’m hoping that a fracture can be cultivated on the right, and the chapter-and-verse conservatives can be sneakied into socialism so long as we don’t call it that. At least we can try to break them from whatever MAGA is.

That’s not what “dense” means to me. Maybe it’s just my mathematician bias, but I don’t consider a text where less than 50% of the words are precise and non-trivially functional to be “dense”.

I don’t want anything to do with K-Smog ever since the whole Batboy thing.

Curtains for Zoosha?

Also specified “dense scientific text”.

9 mentions in the files: 1 story about someone stealing his watches, 1 matrix joke, 1 mention of 47 Ronin, the rest are duplicates of promotional material for an acting class listing him as a former student.

Phew, looks like he’s clear.

Blessed

Yeah he makes some solid points, it’s worth a read. The bomb stuff was just a ploy to get it published, it’s not like reading it is going to turn you into a bomber.

Yay, another opportunity to share one of my favorite illustrations ever

The explanation I heard from a hockey fan is that it’s better to let the guys with knives strapped to their feet have a “legitimate” framework for fights with basic rules, than for them to just get violent with zero framework.

Wrong, it is an amazing film. Nothing bad about it