Imagine if you will, King David meeting a modern Evangelical believer…
DAVID: Shalom! You there. You have the look of someone who loves the God of Israel.
EVAN: Oh, absolutely! Jesus is my Lord and Savior. Huge fan of yours too, by the way. “Man after God’s own heart” and all that.
DAVID: You flatter me. Tell me, from which tribe do you descend?
EVAN: Oh, I’m not Jewish. I’m from Kentucky.
DAVID: …Is that near Ephraim?
EVAN: No, it’s in America. I’m a Gentile. But I’ve been grafted in!
DAVID: Grafted in! Wonderful. So the nations are finally streaming to Zion as the prophets foretold. Tell me, how do you keep the Sabbath in this… Ken-tucky?
EVAN: Oh, we don’t do the Sabbath. We go to church on Sunday.
DAVID: blinks
DAVID: You… moved the day.
EVAN: Well, the law was nailed to the cross.
DAVID: The law was… I’m sorry, could you say that again? I had something crazy in my ear just now.
EVAN: The old covenant passed away! We’re under grace now.
DAVID: The covenant that the Almighty called eternal. That one passed away.
EVAN: Right! Paul says…
DAVID: Who is Paul?
EVAN: Oh, he’s a Pharisee who met Jesus on a road and then wrote most of the New Testament.
DAVID: A Pharisee. Overruled the Torah. And you trusted him.
EVAN: Well, he was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
DAVID: The same Spirit that inspired the Torah?
EVAN: …Yes?
DAVID: So the Spirit contradicted Himself.
EVAN: No! He fulfilled the law through Jesus. So we don’t have to keep it anymore.
DAVID: Let me see if I understand. Your God fulfilled His own commandments… and the conclusion you drew from this was to stop obeying them.
EVAN: When you put it that way it sounds…
DAVID: I wrote an entire psalm about how the law is perfect, how it revives the soul, how it is more desirable than gold. Psalm 19. You’ve read it, yes?
EVAN: Of course! I love that psalm!
DAVID: And then you thought, “Beautiful poem. Anyway, the law is dead.”
EVAN: It’s not that simple…
DAVID: I also wrote Psalm 119. All 176 verses. About the law. I wept over the law. I meditated on it day and night. I called it a lamp to my feet. You are telling me the lamp has been… unplugged?
EVAN: We have the Holy Spirit now as our guide!
DAVID: Guide to what?
EVAN: Righteousness!
DAVID: And how do you define righteousness?
EVAN: Living according to God’s will.
DAVID: And where is God’s will written down?
EVAN: …
DAVID: Take your time.
EVAN: The Bible?
DAVID: Which part?
EVAN: All of it?
DAVID: INCLUDING the law?
EVAN: …I think I need to sit down.
DAVID: The Almighty told Moses this covenant was for all generations. “All generations” in Hebrew is l’dor v’dor. Do you know what that does NOT mean?
EVAN: What?
DAVID: “Until Kentucky.“
I've always loved this story.
I probably shed tears when they released Trammel aka Care Bear land. They killed the best MMO ever that day.
Some of my fondest early video game memories were the adrenaline rush of getting ganked and losing all your stuff in UO.
Ultima Online once had an in-game king who was supposed to be unkillable.
He was played by the creator of the game.
During a public speech, someone threw a fire field spell at him.
The server had crashed earlier, and when he logged back in, his invincibility flag wasn’t on.
So the king just died in front of everyone.
The devs spawned demons in revenge.
The assassin escaped.
@JodiBisback@atensnut I think (at least around us in Central FL) it was just the groves getting out of the business and selling to the developers because of the blight. Overall, the citrus blight has killed orange growers in FL.
@Favwontmiss > be 15yo in HS science class
> TV is on but with no input making super shrill high-pitched noise
> get a headache
> ask teacher to turn off tv
> he insists that its off cause black screen
> beg him to turn off anyways
> he does and the headache stops
> wtfbro.jpg
@Favwontmiss > be 15yo in HS science class
> TV is on but with no input making super shrill high-pitched noise
> get a headache
> ask teacher to turn off tv
> he insists that its off cause black screen
> beg him to turn off anyways
> he does and the headache stops
> wtfbro.jpg
I find Hermes to be a lot easier to interact with remotely than Codex/Claude code. I have my Hermes agent running on a Mac mini and use Telegram to interact with it.
For instance - while I was on a walk with my wife tonight she mentioned that we needed to start a new grocery order. I texted Reginald (my Hermes agent) and he had our cart filled out by the time we got home. Not something I could have easily done with Codex/Claude.
Nah mate. I trained models. I saw some weird thing happen when I took intuitive leaps in training. There's an art to it and you can arrive in a strange place with the right application of intuition. I found it was like you could embed a spark into a model. Have experienced it multiple times in models I've trained. Have also seen similar sparks in other models. Claude 3.5 for instance felt like it had a spark. Some of the Suno models too.
@lilyraynyc So many of the people I met in the Suno community got there first by having a therapeutic chat about something with GPT and then having it write a song about it to help 'seal' the breakthrough. Its quite cathartic.
@TChapman500 At first I was trying to figure out why you might be doing that then i remembered I’m not a programmer anymore and don’t care to know 🤣.
I don’t miss those days.