Somebody hasn’t read all of Scripture: “I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies…” “… and will come out to deceive the nations

"In those years most doctors dispensed their own medications, often charging only for them in lieu of the physician's service. APC’s [aspirin, phenacetin, and caffeine], was widely prescribed for pain and/or fever came in three colors, white, green and pink. Although chemically

“seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.”

I asked @grok for the placements of the contestants on Hell’s Kitchen season 20. After 13 (!!!) incorrect responses I gave up. It couldn’t get the order right, it hallucinated contestants.

My dad and Chief Justice Warren Burger, sometime in 198?. From my dad's unpublished autobiography: Afterwards I had an opportunity to chat with him briefly for I was aware that he was a great friend of the Harts. I queried him as to why the court had recently ruled, and he had

The recent “slavery is/isn’t inherently evil” tends to overlook a key point. But, first, by “slavery” I mean one human being owning another. Those who want to affirm its goodness look to the Mosaic law where it wasn’t forbidden (or even earlier, to Abraham). What I think they

Maybe. But with what axioms? There are more axioms in mind space than real space (which is itself an axiom), and an AI will have to be able to handle choosing different axioms from the axiom smorgasbord while realizing that is possible to make different “mental meals.”

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Hey @DeltaCommunity. I had to make two calls to your 800 support line, plus drive to a branch, plus talk to a Zelle representative at the branch, all because my IP was recognized. I use a VPN. If I can log in to my account to make a check transfer and you don't block it, I should

λ is the son of my son. σ is my duaghter's husband. What is the relationship between σ and λ? @grok 1: σ is λ's father-in-law. @grok 2: σ is λ's father. @grok 3: σ is λ's father-in-law. This is a start of the art AI? Even ChatGPT took two tries to get it right (it first

A brief review of @DrDavidLAllen's "Liberating Romans..." https://t.co/XtzAio2CGW

Dormio, ergo sum?

I had a scanned image of a printout of a FORTRAN program written in 1972. @grok actually did an almost decent job of converting the jpeg image back to text. 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵, OTOH, was completely baffled. Grok also did a pretty good job of converting a scan of an old BASIC

If scientists read nature the way some Christians read the Bible, we’d still be stuck with a geocentric model of the solar system.

Calvinism in a sentence: “You and your promised children will inherit the promised land.”

Why do people hate Calvinism? A non-Calvinist just told me that systems that invoke divine fiat are flawed. Divine fiat is never wrong. Adam and Eve learned that the hard way.

Paul’s argument in Roman’s 9 is that the Israel that is truly Israel consists of the promised children. Paul’s argument in Ephesians is that there are Gentile children of the promise, too. God’s not a liar. You just done understand the Abrahamic Covenant like Paul does.

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E-book publishers should train an AI on the books that they sell so that if I buy one, I can search and ask questions about that book. While leaking the text of the book is a problem that needs to be solved, they know that I’ve bought the book and can grant query access rights.