Samuel James
@Digitalliturgy
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Director of Content Development, Crossway. Author: "Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age."
Joined July 2024
Clickbait has saturated the market. Cheap drive-by discourse is a dime a dozen. People are weary of autoplay nonsense and being yelled at by the Internet. That stock is falling. What stock is rising? Thoughtfulness. Paragraphs. Fresh insight. Very soon attention farming will be.
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And of course someone could respond, "What's appropriate in public prophetic speech does not necessarily apply to private family relationships.". And I would agree. but this is *not* a distinction you can get from the serrated speech patterns in Scripture.
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One of the more helpful questions that can be posed to those who are eager defenders of a "serrated edge" in Christian speech:. Should cutting, crass, and insulting language be used in marriage & parenting? . If yes, you're consistent. If no, why not?.
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As much as I want to hate this man I can't. He just really loves football.
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@joe_rigney @gavinortlund I’d want to question the hermeneutics at work here. Taking the provocative speech or behaviour of prophets as a normative model for Christian rhetoric today can quickly lead us into strange territory. After all, prophets also walked around naked, married prostitutes, lay on their.
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RT @mitchellchase: This new hymnal from @crossway is extraordinary! Includes plenty of classics, but also some of the best new hymns produc….
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In an age of gender polarization, low birth rates, and alienation between the sexes, Protestants should go out of their way to say that the priestly celibacy requirement of the RCC is severe error. Jesus loves marriage. Christians and their pastors should love it too!.
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RT @DZRishmawy: Yes, and this is why the Old Testament has very careful restrictions on whom the priest can marry oh wait.
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If something is not human enough for moral agency, why is it human enough for anything else?.
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If AI is fit for human tasks—therapy, friendship, medical advice, etc.—then why shouldn't it be held to human standards of truthfulness? . Instead of calling it hallucinations, call it lies. Instead of calling it a glitch, call it sycophancy. Instead of blaming input, blame AI.
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4. What are the long-term consequences? . "Just as social media reshaped norms around beauty, trust, and truth, emotionally intelligent AI may shift expectations about what intimacy looks and feels like." .
afterbabel.com
How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis
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3. Do AI bots stop conversations from becoming harmful/violent? No, they don't. "More than a quarter of human-AI dialogues in our sample contained serious forms of harm, and their prevalence has increased sharply over time."
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2. What are these bots saying? Often, it's explicitly sexual content. "A significant portion of the interaction is very intimate. Many conversations become romantic and even erotic, with users exploring emotionally charged or sexually explicit roleplay.".
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1. Who is turning to AI for intimacy? Men. "We found a clear and consistent pattern: users active on AI companion forums tend to be younger [and] male.".
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An eye-opening essay on After Babel, looking at what people talk to AI bots about. Spoiler: It's not memes. (some quotes below).
afterbabel.com
How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis
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How Paragraphs Can Save Your Theology:
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Samuel D. James | A fragmented writing style can easily give rise to unsound thinking and unsound doctrine
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FWIW, I think calling for the repeal of the 19th amendment is both a bad idea on the merits, and also a very obvious trap that progressives are hoping conservatives fall into.
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The Rams have a well documented history of lying to the public about the health of their players. Matthew Stafford has a well documented history of practicing and playing through a myriad of injuries. My guess is that the question is not if #9 will miss time, but how much.
🚨 "The Rams remain quietly and privately confident that he's going to be ready. They have not been concerned and they have maintained that if there were a game this week, Matthew Stafford would be out there and he would be playing.". (Via @AdamSchefter) | #RamsHouse.
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Living in one place for a long time has a lot of beautiful blessings about it. But one thing about having lived in more than once place is that, kinda like when you have more than one child, your love for any one place doesn’t diminish because your heart’s capacity grows.
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That style will tilt leftward, IMO; toward an intuition-centric theology that’s impatient with the cerebral logic of Reformed doctrine in general, and the gory authority structures of PSA in particular.
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