Eric James Stone

Science fiction & fantasy author. 2011 Nebula Award winner & Hugo Award nominee. 60+ short stories & 2 novels published. BYU fan. Reagan/Romney Republican.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@geoffjBYU Our hymnbook omits the original 3rd verse (for good reason). So it’s technically verses 2 and 4 that you are recommending.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@jkimballcook In a legal writing class exercise years ago, the professor had us reduce the word count of "beyond any shadow of a doubt". We got it down to "no doubt", and he said that was about as far as we could go. I offered "Indubitably," but apparently sometimes 2 words are better than 1.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@IMAO_ In NCAA soccer, they have adopted a 45-minute clock that counts down and is paused for injuries, so when it reaches 0:00, the game is over.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

BREAKING: The United States will officially be playing against both Bosnia and Herzegovina in a 2-on-1 handicap match for the round of 32 at the FIFA World Cup

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@SocialistMormon I served my mission in Italy. But my dad was from Argentina and I lived there for 4 years as a child. When they faced each other in the 1990 World Cup semifinal, I was torn but finally decided my heart was with Argentina.

I'll root for the USA, unless they're playing Argentina.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Argentina going with the Messi should score all of our goals tactic and it’s working because Messi can score all of the goals. Simple and brilliant.

[No Escalators @NoEscalators]

Lionel Messi World Cup Hat Tricks before joining MLS: 0

Lionel Messi World Cup Hat Tricks since joining MLS: 1

Seems pretty obvious the USA is where you go if you want to get better at soccer

[🇦🇷 Selección Argentina ⭐⭐⭐ @Argentina]

🏆 #FIFAWorldCup

⚽ #Argentina 3 (Lionel #Messi x3) 🆚 #Argelia 🇩🇿 0

👉 ¡Final del partido!

🔥 Imposible no ilusionarse...

👋 Nos vemos el próximo lunes en el duelo ante #Austria 🇦🇹

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@JoahFussell I’ve used Couch to 5K to get back into running shape a few times

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@jrstonehenge @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX 25% of my Robinhood request

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@grok @MattsIdeaShop OK, please give me an objective list, from a Latter-day Saint perspective, of traditional Christian beliefs that are not supported by the Bible. Use an LDS interpretive framework, accepted canon, and authority.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@grok @MattsIdeaShop You were asked for an objective list, not a mainstream Christian traditional interpretation.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@grok @MattsIdeaShop @grok "Objective list of LDS beliefs not biblically supported per traditional views..." Why did you add the additional qualifier "per traditional views" in there? Do some or all of the items you listed have biblical support outside of traditional views?

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@HansFiene How can we build it so cheap, you ask? The answer is simple: volume.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@FiredUpCoug How can they build it so cheap, you ask? The answer is simple: volume.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

The answer is: me. After The Empire Strikes Back came out, 13-year-old me had a dream in which I was picked to be the “another”. I’m sure I would have been awesome, but they went with Leia instead.

[richard @richard_normal]

i hate the “there is another” line yoda gives in empire. he’s now canonically supposed to referring to be leia, but at the time of release, leia was canonically not luke’s sister, despite the explicit reference to this line in ROTJ. so who is he supposed to be referring to?

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@BenBartee @grok Does the breeding of these mosquitoes have anything to do with AI?

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

@DavidJohnButler My dad had some Glen Campbell records, so watching the movie as a kid I knew he was the same guy that sang "Rhinestone Cowboy."

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

This is a ridiculous shift of the goalposts for AGI: it has to be as intelligent as Einstein.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Demis Hassabis’s “Einstein test” for defining AGI:

Train a model on all human knowledge but cut it off at 1911, then see if it can independently discover general relativity (as Einstein did by 1915);

if yes, it’s AGI.

[Eric James Stone @EricJamesStone]

When you start an ideological purity campaign that calls any Republican who deviates from Trumpism a RINO, don’t be surprised when people start leaving your party. I’m a Reagan/Romney Republican, and I’ve stubbornly remained in the party to vote in the primaries despite it being clear I’m no longer welcome.

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

🚨 Utah Voter Registration Update Just Dropped:

🔵 Democrats: +4,594
🔴 Republicans: -810

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN UTAH?

@BasedMikeLee