This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
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Enjoy the first set of Thursday trinkets for March!
(1) Fake Feynman AI does a nice job here of being our Silicon Steve – explaining why [probably] Venus rotates BACKWARDS relative to the other planets of the solar system.
Watch for the typographical errors by the writing AI, which get sucked up into face-palm narration by the vocalization AI. It’s just stupid and cringe. Nevertheless, the science is good.
(2) An interesting chess rematch narrated by DrMike – check it out.
(3) Transitional hominin species Homo habilis gets a new set of skeletal remains, confirming the earlier ones, and our favorite junior anthropologist (Erika, a.k.a. Gutsick Gibbon) summarizes both the background science and the new paper on the new find. The real science can be a bit boring, but that’s often definitive for real science.
(4) Reaction video to (IMO) one of the best live rock performances from back in the mid-70s – by that band called Rush.
Yes, it’s annoying that she keeps interrupting the good parts, so here it is without interruption.
And if you’d prefer a shorter version with video, we have that, too!
(5) OK, how about more Rush, but with a SuSE twist? You may have heard this parody before, but it’s worth a listen to appreciate how well it’s re-done here.
(6) This is ….. different. An AI, heavy metal version of “The Old Rugged Cross”.
(7) You know, I think I’ll stick to the calming versions of these hymns!
OK, that does it. Enjoy your weekend!
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That’s a beautiful rendition of “Just as I Am.” It’s AI, right? One day I think people will be amazed at any human who has actual talent and can “perform like AI.”
Yes! I’m not sure about the specifics of the AI, but it’s heavily if not totally AI.
In a way, it’s mostly stolen, invented and reinvented – in the same way that humans steal, invent, and reinvent based on what they learned.
Yes, agreed with your last statement – but I think it will happen. I think what you see in chess now is what will be seen elsewhere – that AI will perform strongly, but sometimes humans will choose differently from the AI and will find arguably better solutions.
Our lab used to play (and sometimes win) as a group against computer chess programs, and it was a lot of fun, but it was also very telling about the limitations of machine intelligence, which can be quite analogous to our own limitations.
Since we are created in the image of God, any limitations upon us are placed there by us. Ergo, the limitations placed upon machine intelligence are placed there by us which cannot exceed the limitations placed upon us.
Therefore, machines can NEVER out-think us. Faster and faster, sure, but nothing beyond that.
“Therefore, machines can NEVER out-think us.”
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Except Somalis.
I ask myself this question:
What is a greater creation by God? Something that can build things greater than itself, or something that cannot?
BTW, Grok is doing pretty well right now, and ChatGTP (which some are calling WokeGTP) has some…. issues. See the replies here.
She reminds me of myself back in the day when I dressed professionally ~ and found God. Her voice sounds like AI Amelia’s voice:
These AI singing voices are quite good!
Interesting. If we have to have artificial intelligence, music, and the like, I’m glad that quality tunes are being included, even sometimes with the added “spice” of electric guitar sounds. IMO society needs the old songs, as well as beautiful melodies, that bind us together. That one is English, but it still applies.
I have thought that they have to know what they’re doing and the effect it could have. They have all been vocal thought leaders, and they understand that people need motivation to vote. All the reasons I can think of for why they would be acting in such ways are appalling:
• They have turned on MAGA because they don’t want America to be great, domestically and internationally.
• They have TDS and hate Pres. Trump.
• They think they know better than Pres. Trump, and many others, how the country should be run.
• They are jealous of someone or some others and are lashing out.
• They are being paid by enemies within to tear down Pres. Trump and what he is accomplishing.
• They are being paid by foreign enemies, countries, and/or organizations to tear down Pres. Trump and what he is accomplishing.
• They were never what they represented themselves to be.
• And more.
It all amounts to one thing, IMO, that is hard for me to get my head around: they are worse than Thomas Paine’s “sunshine patriots”; they are traitors.
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
-Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. 1.
Should the donkey’s sentence be overturned, and she be re-sentenced in order to make it roughly match Peters’ sentence?
That is the question;
For how long
Will the Sword of Damocles hang above me
Threatening, Promising, Soliciting,
Presenting a picture of its desire
To do the dastardly work that is enscribed
In its genes …
The governor of CO is addressing this:
Jared Polis:
More from Just the News:
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/colorado-gov-jared-polis-suggests-possible-clemency-ex-mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters
It would be excessively cruel not to grant clemency now, with it being discussed like this.
“Dr. Manhattva”:
Marco Rubio not yet able to find the cause of the electricity blackout in Cuba:
Brendan Carr:
Me: Unless this means “Facilitating the onshoring of CALL centers, not foreign ones, then no! No more foreign call centers. The idea that a foreigner in a different country, or a foreigner recently brought to our shores, could understand the nuances of the language and culture well enough to provide excellent customer service, is preposterous. Bringing foreign call centers here won’t solve the problem of thick accents that are sometimes impossible to understand. And we don’t need more foreigners here. Give the jobs to Americans.
Me: How likely is it that very many foreigners (*cough* Indians in India *cough*) would be proficient in American Standard English to be able to communicate effectively with Americans? And who would be the judge of that? I had to talk with a woman once who tried to give me a phone number, and every number sounded just alike.
I don’t see a way to comment, yet. I wonder if AI is going to eliminate this problem by being able to handle all of the customer service calls.