What is this? This outline helped prepare me for a close reading of the Mount Olivet discourse in Matthew. The central texts of interest can be found in Matthew 23–25. This is part of a larger series that includes word studies on some of the crucial language of time, including…

For most readers in the US, I imagine it is easy enough to know what I’m referring to by “this mess.” In one sense the mess is our COVID-19 situation, with 136,000 US deaths and counting today, July 11th, 2020. The disease is spreading exponentially in a number of states…

Pressing GPT-4 with Surreal Sci Fi Prompting and Debates on Its Own Consciousness Me: What are likely to be important trends from June 2023 to June 2024? GPT-4 (Browser Mode): Finished browsing Searched: “technology trends 2023–2024” Clicked on: explodingtopics.com Reading content Searched: “business trends 2023–2024” Clicked on: explodingtopics.com Clicked on: …

This is a conversation I had with GPT-4 on 5/25/23. The art was lovingly hand-prompted with artisanal poem-prompts that I wrote myself, using Midjourney on the same day. This poetry is barbaric, but we still have a right to scream, to quote Theodor Adorno’s evolution on this topic. The key…

Also, I admit that I am not above sort of click-baity headlines I want to confess something that some people find shocking: I think Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) is real. For those who don’t know, people who have complete AIS (as it is generally described by the medical community) present…

The following GPT-4 interaction was inspired by a conversation with Jacob Boss’s about his work on grassroots transhumanist communities. All prompts written by me and provided as-is, based on the GPT-4 interaction. The only changes involve the format and the addition of my lovingly hand-prompted, bespoke AI-generated artwork. Me: How…

It’d be a shame if reading happened to them… Why is this article happening to you? I’m not sure, but it probably has something to do with the fact that you’re starting a conversation that I’ve had many times before. So to save me time, and to give you an…

The humans, unless they are trained and disciplined otherwise, can be quite accurately modeled if we imagine them constantly singing, “Same as it ever was,” to themselves as everything changes. When it comes to understanding exponential processes, like population biology in animals or viruses or the development of information technology…

I think that the most interesting thing, by far, about Greg Brockman’s TED Talk on the next phase of OpenAI’s offerings was his answer to the question: “Why has OpenAI’s small team succeeded in developing this, while Google and other huge firms have not?” His answer, to frame it in…