Ben Bishop

I am a Husband, Father, and a graduate with a masters degree in Christian Apologetics.

Interests:
Culture Analysis,
Literature,
Board Games.

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

In this age of 'ear worms', write a song.

In this time of propaganda, tell a story.

In this era of vulgarity, create art.

In this epoch of 'shouting power to power', speak the truth in love.

Culture is won by Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. Use those to prevail.

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

@Strangeland_Elf Nah, it's more like a Cadbury egg. Open it and there is nugate...

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

Ethnos time!

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

A great use of reductio ad absurdum.

Well done!

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

A MICROSOFT RESEARCHER BUILT A WORKING LLM INSIDE AGE OF EMPIRES 2 USING GOATS, JUST TO PROVE AI ISNT SENTIENT

he was tired of people talking to an llm, seeing it reply in a human tone, and deciding its alive

so heres what he did. computers are built out of tiny yes/no switches called logic gates. he used the age of empires 2 map editor to make goats act as those switches, a goat moving means yes, staying put means no

stack enough of those goat switches together and you get a working computer. he wired up enough to actually run a tiny language model. inside the game. out of goats

his argument:
> if you can build the exact same thing out of goats, or lego, or people passing notes, then the intelligence was never the magic part
> the human feel of an llm isnt the actual system, its just the layer sitting on top
> you can measure how persuasive or consistent it sounds, but none of that proves anything real is happening underneath
> take away the chat window and the friendly voice, and you're just watching goats shuffle around a map

what he found: the goat version still produced the same kind of consistent, convincing output that makes people think a real llm is alive

but obviously nobody thinks a field of goats is alive. so if goats can fake those exact traits, those traits were never proof of a mind in the first place

his actual paper is titled "if llms have human-like attributes, then so does age of empires 2"

we spent two years arguing about whether ai is alive, and this guy answered it with goats

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

"Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world."

G.K Chesterton in Orthodoxy chapter 7

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

Sadly I see this all the time. There is no interest to invest in their family unless it is about themselves.

It now seems that all the complaints leveled against younger demographic groups over decades was just a smokescreen to avoid the same issues in themselves.

[Kitchen Marm @quachelsey]

Boomer is upset she moved to be closer to her children/grandchildren who are in the middle of living their lives raising children. Doesn't offer to help with any of the day to day, ie become integrated and part of their lives, and is dissatisfied when they're busy and don't have time to entertain her lol

[Declan Finn. Based Roman Catholic Author /Editor @DeclanFinnBooks]

"The Dark Ages are a myth. The long centuries between the fall of Rome and the full emergence of a Christian Europe were incomparably the greatest period of moral improvement in human history. In the Classical world, such practices as infanticide, abortion, pederasty, sodomy, slavery, suicide, and crucifixion were everyday facts of life. Public entertainment in Rome included going to the Colosseum to watch gladiators kill each other or wild animals tear helpless people apart. As Christianity gained ascendancy, all these things were abolished by law. By the end of the so-called Dark Ages they had been banned throughout Christendom and ceased to exist, except insofar as they could be performed illicitly. Until recently we took their non-existence so much for granted that we forgot our huge debt to the Dark Ages — the very name of which signifies our modern ingratitude.
The Dark Ages understood virtue and built a civilization; the progressive age doesn’t understand virtue and is tearing down the civilization it inherited." - Joe Sobran

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

➡️ happy father’s day

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

@Andrewnsnyder Truth

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

We all live in Gwyntystorm, and need to be rescued.

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

@Marky_X_ Anything that the goal is to 'get victory points/favor points'.

At least theme the goal better.

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

More Rodeo!

Watch for flying cowboys.

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

Rodeo time!

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

@Andrewnsnyder Depends on spouse...onion breath.

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

My eyes!

[MarkyX 🌹 MafiaBlitz.com @Marky_X_]

Board game publishers have been quietly committing crimes against graphic design for decades.

A thread on the ugly side of board gaming. 🧵

[Trevin Wax @TrevinWax]

To be filled with wonder, we must first be humble creatures who believe it worth our time to bend low to examine this world, to get into the grit of it, and see it for what it truly is.
https://t.co/S5DdDVDdXS

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

@Marky_X_ To be fair I would play the hell out of CATAN Middle Earth...if there was such a thing.

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

@Penjammin “always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?"

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

Social media has made us all Professor De Worms.

Let the reader understand

[Ben Bishop @Windmillfighter]

We were warned about this a decade ago:

https://t.co/SzK2IRZR9N

[Warner Bros. @warnerbros]

Welcome to the hunt, Anya Taylor-Joy. The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum only in theaters 17 December 2027.