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Soli Deo gloria.
Christian multimedia poetry.
Reformed Calvinist musings.
Teleological commentary.

released under CC0.

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Submit to The Syllabus:
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The Syllabus is an open research institute, and a chapter of the Open Research Institute.

The Open Research Institute is an open research institute which contains every open research institute.

A chapter of the Open Research Institute is a known open research institute.

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LLMs help me write terminal commands like they are magic spells, and I expect that this type of usage will become much more commonplace. Some people will know how to write spells, and others just look them up or memorize them.

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@eris_nerung Wait, but hear me out: what if the dresses are not mass-produced, but are actually completely custom-made by the player's own game actions? So a Chinese robot makes the dress, replicating the woman's overall process?

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Enjoy the shade of the fruit-bearing tree.

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@eigenrobot Honestly, the hippie moral rule of "sex is engagement, pregnancy is marriage" is such a big improvement over the weirdness of current-day situationships that it constitutes perhaps the highest of twentieth-century wisdom, the greatest philosophy a sex fiend can find on his own.

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@eigenrobot Honestly, the hippie moral rule of "sex is engagement, pregnancy is marriage" is such a big improvement over the weirdness of current-day situationships that it constitutes perhaps the highest of twentieth-century wisdom, the greatest philosophy a sex fiend can find on his own.

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I got owned by a trusted Discord friend's account sending me a game link and getting me to run an infected .exe. Remind me to way up how suspicious I am of anything.

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Those who are *not* willing to treat things theologically can't actually escape from the fact that in practice some beliefs (familial, cultural, societal, scientific...) act as theological axioms; this results in an inability to be sanctified at the root level.

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I suspect the key thing that distinguish deep thinkers from fakers is roughly the willingness to treat things theologically, as in actually letting your understanding of truth shape who you are.

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@mannygoestomars The best kinds of things to memorize are catechistic in nature, essentially the basic rote facts of a *system*; being fluent in e.g. the Trinity and Christology tends to organize thought much better than adopting scientific beliefs on which science does not structurally rely.

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Many deep thinkers are still ideological, but even many ideologues are much more malleable than the average person. There are better and worse kinds of malleability, of course; but often ideologues can grasp very precise insights even if they miss the big picture.

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@mannygoestomars The best kinds of things to memorize are catechistic in nature, essentially the basic rote facts of a *system*; being fluent in e.g. the Trinity and Christology tends to organize thought much better than adopting scientific beliefs on which science does not structurally rely.

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@mannygoestomars I think school trains people to BS their way to the end of a writing assignment, and in the process learn the lesson that writing is just BSing. This is in addition to "form essays" being taught in a cargo cult way without enforcement of the actual logical continuity.

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@mannygoestomars Memorizing facts is still important for having an initial well to draw from, and to have fruitful premises to use; but yeah, learning facts without reasoning from them in a way that 'cuts through to truth' necessarily means not having our beliefs pay rent.

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@thrialectics The best political position to really intensely study from the outside is libertarianism, because it combines correct economic facts with a whole cultural apparatus that is essentially Satanism. It is a great study in how people pervert that which is true and good.

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@tracewoodgrains I take it you like musicals?

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@mannygoestomars Good writing comes from the bravery of writing things down obvious facts then piecing them together like pearls on a necklace. Writing was taught like this back in the days of commonplaces and aphorisms; it was all about remixing on some basic knowledge that you knew.

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@mannygoestomars Also, teachers have students argue for conclusions before they have any cultural context that would let them make an informed argument that they actually understand step by step. Much of the time this is on purpose, for indoctrination purposes.

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@mannygoestomars It is actually amazing how many people's imaginations do not try the trick of "This, but more" or "This, but iteratively". The problem is that they think everything in the world is as static and closed-system as their own thinking.

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The scandal around whether Thélyson Orélien used AI for his novel exposes how little normies have engaged with the frontier models.

People are unironically using "This is too good to be AI!" as a real justification, and are probably never going to be called out on this later.

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@athena_notes Christianity as a religion is unique because it believes that itself is being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. And so Christianity is always aiming toward perfection. If something is an interpolation between Christianity now and perfection, Christianity proximately becomes it.

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It could be useful to start another movement that shares aims with Christianity while having a specific focus in neglected areas. But ultimately, it either becomes Christianity or Christianity becomes it, in some way. Christianity seeks what is beter.

[Athena Notes @athena_notes]

@taijitu_sees @sunriseoath Back again. Hello. So this is what I wanted to ask you both about.

"If Christianity is already the worldview about bridging other worldviews and forming an alliance against death and destruction, is there any point to making a new framework meant to do that?"

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@athena_notes The basic theological supposition that many cultural Christians are missing is that goodness is existence and evil is a privation of goodness (existence). God's will is always actualized, and so God's will is perfectly good. Sanctification involves conforming our will to God's.

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@GolerGkA @deepfates or sex, take your pick

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@GolerGkA @deepfates prompt engineering is about power

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@sunriseoath Yep. I think you have to approach the writing process with curiosity, though. A common mistake is that people already have a conclusion in mind before they start writing: it's hard to reason through the process of writing if you've already closed off your mind imo.

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LLMs show us that simply getting better at writing can be a gateway to getting better at many other things. Being able to reason with words, then read the words with which we and others have reasoned, makes it much easier to discern and decide.

[Manny @mannygoestomars]

Another relevant perspective on the importance of writing from @jamesclear:

"Writing is the foundation of nearly every technology and innovation because we must record what we know before we can build on it. These innovations are passed down from generation to generation, allowing our children to inherit a richer intellectual fortune than what we were born into. The world is richer because we write and no one is made poorer in the process."