Donald Sweeting

American educator, grateful husband, father, grandfather. Love Christian higher education, the Bible, Jesus/gospel, goodness, beauty, truth, permanent things.

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

My new piece arguing tht Pope Leo’s encyclical deserves more than predictable ideological reactions. It is not merely about markets or politics. It is about what happens when technological power outruns moral wisdom @JohnnieM .https://t.co/NXRjYCZz6a.

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

@ARC_Conference Looking forward to attending ARC

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

My new piece arguing tht Pope Leo’s encyclical deserves more than predictable ideological reactions. It is not merely about markets or politics. It is about what happens when technological power outruns moral wisdom @JohnnieM .https://t.co/NXRjYCZz6a.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

The new @AnthropicAI post on the approach of recursive self-improvement is very important. It chimes with my argument that some kind of international effort is needed to brake the completely unconstrained AI arms race: https://t.co/kexd0jnra6

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see our culture most clearly. In my opinion, Os Guinness is the Alexis de Tocqueville of our age. It was a 19th century French philosopher, who understood what was happening in that age, and so he wrote Democracy in America. Os has written, not one, but many books, to describe the dynamics of the American republic and Western civilization.

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

@DailyCitizen_ @RepMaryMiller Amen to this!

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

Huge and somewhat sad. There are More mergers for seminaries in decline and resultingly, fewer seminaries. TEDS being another example. Grateful for what @waynegrudem and others did to bring @PhoenixSeminary into existence. Glad it was acquired by Biola/Talbot, which will honor that heritage and build on basically the same theological foundation.

[Frank Gaffney @frankgaffney]

Securing America with Dr. A. J. Nolte
https://t.co/eOTSht7fb6
Dr. A. J. Nolte, Religion and International Relations Specialist

I had one of the most fascinating interviews of my life with Dr. A. J. Nolte about the truth concerning Sharia, the threat that it poses to our country, the extent to which it is mainstream in Islam, not some fringe excursion practiced by assorted jihadis And the necessity of helping, where possible, Muslims who want no part of Sharia any more than the rest of us do, to say so publicly, helpfully, without fear of being murdered for doing so, and otherwise defeating Muslim Brotherhood and similar Sharia supremacist operations inside America, not enabling them to persist in undermining our country and pursuing ultimately its destruction.

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

My weekend pespective on AI in the Denver and Colorado Springs Gazette papers https://t.co/iylgfv54A9

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

This year’s Wilberforce Award goes to author and social critic Os Guinness. So grateful for his ministry, books and friendship. The William Wilberforce Award is the Colson Center’s annual honor for a Christian leader whose life and work show the kind of courage, perseverance, public faith, and reforming influence associated with William Wilberforce, the British parliamentarian who led the long campaign against the slave trade and slavery #CCNC26 @ColsonCenter @JBStonestreet

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

The Colson t Center is taking the lead with one of the top Christian formation discipleship training programs in the country. Become Colson Fellow. #CCNC26 @ColsonCenter @JBStonestreet

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

So Glad to serve on the board of The Colson Center and to attend the national conference along with 2,500 others here in Knoxville this week. Become Colson Fellow #CCNC26 @ColsonCenter @JBStonestreet

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

My weekend pespective on AI in the Denver and Colorado Springs Gazette https://t.co/yf0LD1YVli @v

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

My weekend pespective on AI in the Denver and Colorado Springs Gazette https://t.co/yf0LD1YVli @v

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

Here is my piece in the Denver papers today about Artificial Intelligence after a fascinating visit with the leaders of Anthropic. https://t.co/jwpcgWcdQ9

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

Here is my piece in the Denver papers today about Artificial Intelligence after a fascinating visit with the leaders of Anthropic. https://t.co/jwpcgWcdQ9

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

The most detailed 3D reconstruction of a cell ever created.

Blows my mind every time.

But what exactly are we looking at here?

The average human cell contains:

~ 15-20 total distinct organelle types, totalling between ~1-10 million working together per cell.

All these nano-machines in the cell are made up of proteins.

~ 8,000-10,000 distinct types of unique proteins, adding up to between 40 million - 10 trillion total proteins making up all those cellular systems.

~ 10,000 - 15,000 distinct types of RNA shuttling information around the cell, totalling up to ~10 million RNA molecules moving around the cell simultaneously.

~ Billions of Lipid molecules packed together into the cell membrane, which is also packed tightly with millions more protein-based nano-machines.

And let's not forget billions of lines of DNA information to build and run it all.

That's TRILLIONS of of individual molecular pieces working together to make a single cell function.

That means there is more complexity in a single cell than humanity's largest cities.

And people still believe this wasn't Divinely Designed.

This is God's Glory on Display.

But to make the point.

A cell couldn't have evolved from some nebulous simpler "protocell" because even the simplest cells still require massive complexity.

The "simplest" cell ever created was engineered by scientists knocking out pieces of a functional cell until it stopped functioning.

Here is what they found is the absolute necessary minimal requirements of a cell to function:

- Over ~531,000 lines of coded DNA information

- 473 total genes to create hundreds of unique protein products (they later added 19 genes back in because the cell was so weak)

- Hundreds of thousands of total proteins all working together

- Extensive regulatory networks guiding all these interactions

If the cell doesn't have all these systems in place, from the start...
it doesn't live.

Cell rely on an intricate network of complex systems, which are themselves built from complex interconnected pieces woven together into an incomprehensibly complex web of functionilty.

Only intelligence has ever been observed creation vast interconnected systems like this.

Life was clearly Created.

It couldn't happen any other way.

[Donald Sweeting @DSweeting]

@lizpeek Not quite

[Clara Shih @clarashih]

The act of writing is an act of thinking, making meaning, and cognitive and creative flourishing.

The biggest risk of delegating work to AI is at the learning stage. Struggle is how skills get encoded-- whether searching for the right word or phrase, or wrestling with a complex problem. AI producing the result faster robs beginners of the opportunity to become experts.

Beneath the surface, results are also often not as good for novice writers. An analysis of 370,000 college student essays found that human-written essays contain 8X more novel ideas than those generated by A.I. Though AI works often contain more flowery language, story lines are more homogeneous and lack distinctive ideas.
https://t.co/jYeXCzkEPy

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Goodness. What a prophetic quote from 44 years ago.