Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Since the public release of the large language models (LLM) which is what we tend to mean when speaking of AI — like ChatGPT and Claude — I have tried to hold an ambivalent attitude toward them, wanting to be both optimistic and pessimistic in appropriate …
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Obligated to Respond
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Last week, when the president of the United States insulted Pope Leo XiV and attempted to explain Christian theology to him, it became clear that at least one aspect of U.S. politics has totally jumped the shark. That is the binary, one-side-or-the-other framing …
How to Get 10 Years Back
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! While many have found the impact of cell phones and social media use to be an obvious net negative for us, a collection of recent studies have shown it to be much worse than we assume, with dramatic cognitive decline evidenced by the extended usage that is now the …
