Daniel Metcalf

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CHECK IT OUT —OpenKuyper Project⬇️ translation of Kuyper’s Antirevolutionaire Staatkunde

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

"The autodidact always has a streak of the daredevil in him..." -- Abraham Kuyper

1st installment of Kuyper's Antirevolutionary Politics is hot off the press on my Substack. The full foreword, translated for readability, but also to keep something of Kuyper's style and prose. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

https://t.co/GuJsMlEB9n

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@NotionHQ When @opencode ?

[Josh Lofthus @joshlofthus]

Fathers, if you are pointing your children to Christ, you are doing better than you think you are. Take a breath and rest in the power of the Gospel today.

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@wagraham @pauldirks @obsdmd But @NotionHQ is a tier above

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@wagraham @pauldirks @obsdmd

[James R. Wood @jamesrwoodtheo]

"the redemption of the elect through His incarnation, perfect obedience, suffering, resurrection, and ascension. The covenant of redemption is also the root of the Spirit's role to anoint and equip the Son for His mission as surety and to apply His finished work to the elect."

[James R. Wood @jamesrwoodtheo]

another summary: "the covenant of redemption is the pre-temporal, intra-trinitarian agreement among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to plan and execute the redemption of the elect. The covenant entails the appointment of the Son as surety of the covenant of grace who accomplishes...

[L. David Fairchild @David_Fairchild]

@owenthcarey The study of ethics.

[James R. Wood @jamesrwoodtheo]

"The Father and the Son agree to send the Spirit, both to support hte Son in His work as a covenant surety, and to apply the Son's work in the redemption of the elect."

[James R. Wood @jamesrwoodtheo]

Fesko's summary of the pactum: "The triune God enters into a covenant in which the Father appoints His Son in love as covenant surety of the elect, and the Son willingly agrees to offer His obedience, His love, toHis heavenly Father on behalf of the elect. ...

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@collinhansen @TGC Chris Watkins’s in good on AI, but the branding so far on this initiative is quite doomerish

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@dokimazete Nancy Pearcey is an AI doomer?

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@StatlerMatthew What did you build it using?

[Logos Bible Study App @Logos]

Natural law, general revelation, common grace — how do you use these concepts when talking about faith with non-Christians? What's worked?

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

There’s some of validity to the current AI "doomer" discourse, but I’m finding myself much more interested in a different question:

How does technology fit into the Good, the True, and the Beautiful?

And how does it align with that fundamental “sense of right” or “sense of oughtness” in how the universe is supposed to work?
Pepper Potts (@GwynethPaltrow) interviews @traestephens—the right hand to our real-life Iron Man (@PalmerLuckey)—and it’s one of the few conversations that actually tackles these big, timeless themes. A deeply refreshing listen.

https://t.co/pO3HIqqXHy

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

Friendly pushback: in any non-theocracy, the state is always adjudicating theology, very subtly. We just don’t notice it most of the time.

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@JoshDaws Some of the pro life movement. There are quite a few pro life orgs who have not and would not sign a letter like that anti-abolition letter.

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@rSanti97 @Digitalliturgy This is what it’s actually doing. And by the time you get it to output the answer, you've actually written it! Just in prompt format, and not in the form of an essay.

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@annielcrawford What is productivity and what is its end? No productivity involved in writing a thesis?

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

Have you thought of expanding and applying your critique of technology and AI to real-life examples? I know you mentioned ChatGPT briefly, but the world of AI has moved beyond a bare chat interface. There is more interest in a maximally truth-seeking and maximally transparent system with the ability to trace its thoughts, trace its sources, and for it to augment and not replace human autonomy and decision-making.
I see that across various domains, organizations, and companies like Palantir, Anduril, and Notion. When you think through some of these applications, there is somewhat of an inevitability to these things. If we want to see and maintain Western civilization, to ignore these technologies is essentially to relegate the West to the trash heaps of history. Our preservation has always been tied to our ingenuity and our ability to make use of these new technologies in meaningful and sometimes spectacular ways alongside a religious, moral understanding that constrains our vision for how these things are used.

Maybe applying your critique to real-world governance systems like those created by Palantir, or to real-world flying hammers like those created by Anduril. I think that they have probably a more than adequately sophisticated philosophy of the use of these technologies for you to engage with. I believe Palmer Luckey (Anduril) is a self-professing Christian, and their dialogues internally revolve often around just war theory and how these things should work out in practice.
I find your videos interesting, but at this point, as I use AI for various things, it feels as though you're speaking into the air.
Finally, what are your thoughts on the digital humanities and the use of AI/Tech in those types of fields? It seems as though the rigor of analysis and of application is able to be pushed to the nth degree as a result of applying these technologies to text of various kinds, and the person using these technologies is also able to be thoroughly cultivated.

[Daniel Metcalf @_danielmetcalf]

@wagraham Owen or Davenant on the death of Christ? Who is better and where?

Can we expect a review?