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“Most of my friends are so well educated they can scarcely believe God exists.”

Theologian Lelio Sozzini in a letter to John Calvin on 14 May 1549 from Switzerland, commenting on the unusually high level of skepticism about God’s existence among educated men in Italy. It was an early encounter with what later historians see as the rise of s…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

“I must respect your beliefs?? Some chance of me doing that when I don’t even respect my own. I don’t believe things to feel safe. You don’t want your beliefs respected. You want them immunized for criticism. Once they are protected from scrutiny, beliefs will metastasize into ideology and when ideology remains unchall…[Read more]

If the Ayatoldyaso regime is overthrown there goes the funding for the terrorist proxies. Presumably. There in living color is a social experiment in Islamic rule played out and receiving an F. One might suppose the American ideal of separation between church and state as the sine qua non of decent governance is more obvious than ever. For greater…[Read more]

Enco,

Inshallah.

Jake:

Also noteworthy: There are Muslim nations that are stricter on The Muslim Brotherhood than either the U.S. or U.K. Even Muslims hate Islamism when pressed hard enough.

Jake:

I’m hoping the Iranians have got this. I do know between between Trump’s sparing of the regime and restraining Israel from taking out the regime, the worse thing that Trump could do is get involved.

Trump’s half-assed handling of Venezuela and Greenland also punctuates this all the more.

There are reports of 100s of citizens of Iran protesting and murdered. Is it treason to oppose the hands of tyranny?

There is the possibility that the lives of millions will improve markedly in Iran. And in so doing stabilize the middle east. Little Israel far from causing world war 3 as the lefty filth hoped has been an instrumental fillip in…[Read more]

I found this amusing as Prager is at Oxford to embarrass the brain dead students. UAE knows of what it speaks.

How is this for an unforseeable development if we were to look back just a few years?

Unholy alliance between Islam and the far left has resulted in an Islamic nation being unwilling to pay for its own to attend British schools because they are too…[Read more]

Misinformation spread by adversaries and AI

Also, using AI to recognize it.
10-1/2 minutes, plus a one-minute self-promotion at the end:

The link works. I have a full NYT sub so can share 10 stories per month. I was on the phone with a friend in Zaporizhzhia a few nights ago. We had drones and gunfire for almost all of the call.

Reg dropped a link to an awesomely informative NYT article about AI advancement in drones supplied to or made by Ukraine. I got so immersed in it I lost track of time. Microsoft’s CoPilot gave me a summary of quotes from it. See it below the link. CoPilot also estimated a reading time of 20 minutes, but it felt more like an hour-long…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
From AI Welfare to AI Warfare. This is a great read.

Absolutely a great read! Written half like a mini-novel, and half like a documentary. I’m adding it to the AI Group…

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Gettier Problem: True Justified Belief without Knowledge.

Again, I think the problem with True Justified Belief is the statement, I am factually justified.  To know I am factually justified, I must know that my belief is true, yet I use this justification as proof that the belief is true.  I justify the truth o…[Read more]

From AI Welfare to AI Warfare. This is a great read.                                 .

[…] AI welfare is a legitimate domain of inquiry because we cannot rule out the possibility that AI systems may have—or may one day develop—consciousness. The authors describe this as “an open question,” but they then unbalance the scales by linking to a preprint by several philosophers—including world-renowned philosopher of conscious…

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Jake:

I agree but the takeover with ridiculous pretexts is a bad precedent.

Agreed. Trump is at least as schizoid and hysterical about drugs as every previous Administration since Wilson and it’s Harrison Act.

On one hand, Trump accuses Venezuela of being the source of Fentanyl, when the actual source is China via Mexico.

Then he blows up…[Read more]

Yeah Enco,

I agree but the takeover with ridiculous pretexts is a bad precedent. Hard to defend opposition to China and Russia if US is gonna step in while they step out. Hopefully the net result will be positive.

As to divining the motivation i wonder if Trump is capable of enunciating policy goals. For sure it is a zionist plot. Whatever…[Read more]

Jake:

Well, Maduros and Chavez before him ran shithole regimes that enslaved their own people, so it’s hard to sympathize with them. Whether American boots on the ground or Venezuelans rising up themselves (my choice) is the better option is another story.

Trump is deluded if he thinks oil will pay for his operation, since the companies won’t…[Read more]