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Sola Scriptura leads to publish or perish, pics or it didn’t happen, and a culture that worships the written word over direct experience. Sola Fide leads to thought crimes, and a culture that prioritizes believing the right things over doing the right things.

I often wonder what the Desert Fathers would make of the contemporary American landscape. Wide swathes of pavement, fluorescent lights, speeding faceless vehicles, a general absence of anything "human." A desert of gluttony. A call to penance. The strip mall path to Sainthood.

This might be the worst take on AI I’ve seen, and I’ve read Yudkowski before

Honestly I think in light of his legendary crash out a clean drug test makes the situation worse…

Average number of needle stabs per minute getting a tattoo: 1525 Probably take about an hour to get the glucose tat: ~90000 needle stabs assume a diabetic does one and a half tests per day (average) over 60 years: ~70000 needle stabs Do you want to pay now or later?

Big if true

We should approach language with the same faustian intensity that we do technology and the sciences Not a hundredth of what language can do, has been done

Yeah 😖

American Evangelicals and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Underrated gem btw

“If everyone would just—”

same effect as listening to randos dreams. my dreams are profound with deep symbolism that gets right to the point. everyone i don't know has inane dreams with no message (unless it's like a psychoanalysis case study) this is why you only read chatgpt text from online schizos

Why is "Avatar: The Last Airbender" an American Anime and how does it differ from Japanese Anime? There's a lot of things to focus on that reflect differences in the two cultures. The narrative, the values, the humour, etc. But I want to talk about the power system.

It begins. The source of my leak has been identified. Tbh I don’t trust myself to replace this part so I’m bringing in the plumbers

the reality is that focusing too much on colonizing another planet before earth is ready can actually be extremely dangerous and lead to the very collapse that it's claiming to help prevent all of the problems facing the earth are trivial in comparison to how many resources need

This is actually gonna be so crazy with a sufficiently advanced VLAM