@SawtelleAn5682 We could even make it easier for you... add the words "the practice of" in front of my statement.
Instead of being intentionally obtuse.
@SawtelleAn5682 Just to help, the colloquial use of the word "science" in the way I used it is usually referring to the ideology of scientism and/or materialism.
But you know that.
@theerealtao Just psychologically, if instead of taking credit for accomishments, we give all of the glory to a perfect God(whether that being actually exists or not), we remain in a state necessary for further accomplishment.
If we take all of the credit, we stagnate and wither
@Melitonenn@Fighter_Punchh Imagine you're a lone security guard. You hear a commotion. You round the corner and see a guy throwing punches at another guy who looks to be defending himself by circling away and parrying those punches. Who do you restrain?
@DoTheRightWing@RealCandaceO Every single person who claims to channel the now deceased Charlie, ALWAYS posit that his opinions today would conflict with his verifiable, stated opinions expressed while he was alive.
@Obt193@AntiCapmoves@BRijswijk@MartinTweats It means that your argument is self-refuting and fails from the jump.
You could try to maybe address conditions of reality which oppose the possibility of a prime mover. This worked in the past, though there are good arguments against these critiques.
Tldr New atheism is hollow
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
@SawtelleAn5682@DavidLeeGenesis Jesus's contemporaries did witness the judgment of Israel, yet the wicked generation still exists today, which means the longer term prophesy has not yet been fulfilled.