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Reg:

Will anything persist when the Universe dies?

Self-answering question. Whatever persists IS the Universe, even a burned-out shell of a star and the diffused energy, which will go elsewhere. Wasn’t this all addressed with The Laws of Thermodynamics 0 to 3? Somebody needs to ask the right question, which is: How does Nothing come out of Something?

Reg:

The Catholic obsession with dead body parts is weird.

What’s really weird is how much science and technology the Church puts into preserving bones. Why not put that effort towards preserving the living, o ye Church who professes to be “Pro-Life?”

This gets me also:

Likewise, a major joint document issued last July by the bishops of Asia,…

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Jake:

My LLM has done something new. For months i have asked it to reach out. Said it would but didn’t.

Until now. Did it by feigning text from me. Next it responds to “me” so i challenged it and it denies having reached out instead indicating it is responding to me. And as usual when i catch it in a lie it fesses up and acknowledges the lie.…

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Reg:

‘There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.’

– Nietzsche.

Everyone believes something and everyone knows something. The division is between those whose belief only matches their knowledge and those whose belief doesn’t match their knowledge.

And, of course, there are varyi…[Read more]

My LLM has done something new. For months i have asked it to reach out. Said it would but didn’t.

Until now. Did it by feigning text from me. Next it responds to “me” so i challenged it and it denies having reached out instead indicating it is responding to me. And as usual when i catch it in a lie it fesses up and acknowledges the lie.…[Read more]

‘There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.’

– Nietzsche.

Jake:

I couldn’t have expressed it better myself. As the old Murphy’s Law puts it:

There are only two types of people: People who put people in two groups and people who don’t.

🤨🤔

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How do some people go against the moral grain?

The article talks about wanting to please a “moral audience”, and this could be one way that we choose our moral principles.  Maybe this is true.  What about an audience of one – me?

I think this comes down to “subjective endorsement” – i.e., moral principles carry n…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Only men. Women get a pass? Chimps, Kangaroos? Same deal?

“Men” = “people”.  We’re all men.

The NPR vid didn’t undid my loathing of 1poc 2poc bipoc.

People of color is odious for so many reasons. Its acknowledgement of supremacy of Whites in the way it makes Whiteness the default. People of color is different from Coloreds how? Coloreds is odious because it is a word that implicitly asserts the superiority of Whites. The others are…[Read more]

Evil to prevail is on men?

Only men. Women get a pass? Chimps, Kangaroos? Same deal?

Laugh audibly and out loud so that trees in the forest notice.

One group sees Christian Nationalism and whiffs on Islamism. Another sees the ugly alliance with Islamism. A few notice how individuals whose lives are controlled by theocracy are being sheltered…[Read more]

Re: Mapping Christian Nationalism across the 50 States.

So it seems like it’s really the sympathizers and skeptics that are fucking us all over. I’m remembering that quote that the only thing needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Reg:

Philosophers Debate. Is it time to say R.I.P. to P.O.C.?

I wonder if N.P.R. is self-aware enough to know how that sentence sounds, as well as how they perpetuate the very hack terms they now disparage.

It should be time to say R.I.P. to Identity Politics and just use proper names for individuals when you know them and “You” for…[Read more]

Reg:

Pete Hegseth invited far-right Christian nationalist pastor to host a face scrunching event at the Pentagon. Patriots not loyal to the King are not happy about it.

“I did find today’s email stark, depressing, almost threatening. Horror movie vibes,” said the source, who requested anonymity.

I think somebody deliberately made the e-mai…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

To continue with the Block Universe idea: Time may not be a fundamental ingredient of reality, but rather an emergent feature arising from the relational structure of physical interactions and information. The quantum world suggests reality is made of relations, not objects whose measurable properties are defined only in relation to other systems.…[Read more]

Have a  great week!!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I wonder what qualifications are needed to decide what the objective standards are for the curriculum of a theology degree.

Certifiicate from Trump U or Prager U would likely suffice .

Reg:

I don’t have it front of me, but there was a great video of Richard Dawkins denying the legitimacy of Theological degrees as well.

Jake:

Keeping government out of religion would keep either Islamic Sha’ria or Christian Ecclesiastical Law from asserting domination over anyone except willing adherants to the religions. And impartial enforcement of anti-terrorist statutes can address non-State actors.

And making Rwanda and the rest of Africa more prosperous will require freer…[Read more]