Matt Siple tweets, too

Pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, family man, former rock star

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

@fredgreco do you mean the only thing changing is giving people time to think? It sounds like they want to keep working on it over the next year (taking suggestions).

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@Garcia_Mark_A know anything about the origins of the slogan? i've never heard anything very satisfying

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

"God breathed the world into existence, not just the scriptures, and the world itself is legible." Really good stuff here ... https://t.co/4VHHEqMTiL

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

@RevDTStill @JonMcK1647 dang

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@zugzwanged “I discovered that the Bible can shed a lot of light on the commentaries.” - Johnny Cash after studying Paul

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

just saw a photo of an old friend of mine wearing HeyDude shoes in Venice ... it's too much

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

The question concerning LLM use (and phone use) is primarily one about whether we should be attending *first* to what techniques our tools can allow us to use with them, or *first* to how those tools will shape our second nature.

[Maggie Phillips @maggiemphillips]

Me listening to any music released after 2010

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

favorite Ephesians commentaries?

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

@JonMcK1647 We've transferred in a few EPC guys. Last year we transferred a Baptist. He got same written exams with a bit more scrutiny from the committee and the floor. But never "re-ordained" anyone.

[The Presbytery Inn @PresbyInn]

As has always been the case, those who organize and want to win always triumph over those who simply want to be left alone.

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

@reformedtexan Any recommendations on a good Presbyterian history in America? (looking for more on the English/Scottish background, too)

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

We can’t even make machines that are alive. We don’t even try. Biology is baffled at simply trying to define life.

So why would we think we can skip over life’s irreproducibility and make machines have the functions of life, especially the highest ones such as willing & knowing?

[Stan of Cleves @OurLadyofAntifa]

@seanjwestwood Even if AI's translating capacity were up to snuff—which it is absolutely not—the entire point of the humanities is the development of human *powers,* not "output" for its own sake. That's why we have students doing things like writing essays on "Antigone" year after year:

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

@ChrisKindaReads incredible, beautiful, haunting sentences - with terrible characters

[Samuel James @Digitalliturgy]

The technology could be incredibly helpful. The value add could be very real. The vocational transformation could be tremendous. But as long as the people who control AI continue to reveal how much they hate the human race, I will pray, cheer, and work for its failure

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

I say this as a convinced Presbyterian. "That's Anglican" is not a good reason to avoid something.

[Matt Siple tweets, too @mpsiple]

@B_Goodness

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

I guess the only document the AI didn't train on is the Ten Commandments.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

It's really wild how the only kids who can't learn hymns are kids whose parents/teachers don't like them. Weird coincidence!