Ben Kreiter

"The witness is not given to a pre-determined outcome. The witness testifies to the truth, come what may, often at great expense. The witness has no other outcome in mind than speaking the truth, and is not directed to hold back parts of the truth which are inconvenient."

My daughter told me on the way to school that each morning they watch a video of someone doing something nice for someone else and talk about it. Yesterday was about how a class set up a visitation and food schedule for a classmate (and family) in long term ICU. That's a good curricular decision.

"It seems to me that those who yearn for the Singularity, who live in perpetual pursuit of an infinitely far-away destination—respectable—seem to envy those who have found a love so deep for something that they’re willing to stop the world to keep it." www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/the-month-...

Really good game. I just hope how close it is doesn't keep the broadcast from letting me know which celebrities are in attendance.

I think back to all the times as a kid in church and we talked about there weren't really literal idols any more. Our idols were money or looks. Now pastors are worshiping massive golden idols of Trump on his lawn and he'll still have 80%+ evangelical approval. Dan 3 in the flesh. Wild stuff.

I'm not unfamiliar with the level of support Trump has among evangelicals, but I got to be honest. The number of my former theology professors in the last few months who explicitly excuse his moral failings has hit me harder than I would have expected.

Lots of debate over angles and milliseconds. Matters in court, but for the rest of us it boils down to: Should people that get in the way of ICE die? Its an extension of, "should someone without the right papers die at CECOT?" Angles aren't changing minds. Your heart has grown cold or it hasn't.

I sniffed the theobros turning towards Fuentes after the Carlson interview. There was a lot of "I'm not saying we agree on everything, but..." Even so, it's certainly strange to see them sit down with him for a "We have been too hard on Hitler..." talk just a few months later.

The age of men is over, the time of wet rat winter has come

For the Christian I don't think much separates this from consulting a medium. Something besides the resting dead speaks using their image. While a chatbot doing it feels better than a demon, I'm not sure the distinction is meaningful enough to make the former acceptable practice within the faith.

Vance unintentionally putting immigrants in good company "Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them." Luke 12:37 (among many many references)

"Think about it, you walk into a bank and you see 50 year mortgage sitting there–there's 51 year mortgage right beside it. Which one are you gunna pick?"

AI's primary use case for writing is cheating at school. For images its making stock imagery, and for video its commercial. Well and for all three pornography. Its best at the kinds of communication we would be better off without.

My LLM take of the day is that GPT-4o like sycophantic responses are pornographic even if OpenAI doesnt allow it to be sexually explicit. Pornography has more to do with experiencing faux intimacy via control of media than it does actual intercourse (even though intercourse is the preferred form)

I wrote for Adventist Today on Zohran Mamdani's appearance at an Adventist Evangelistic series. It looks at why this is a surprising venue for a campaign stop given the denomination's history, and how we got to this point. atoday.org/sickness-in-...

FL schools are spending $600k for a 3 school pilot program to have "30-90" drones per campus with less-lethal weaponry and a 100mph top speed. They will be piloted from TX by "the best drone racing pilots in the world." Surely violent machines piloted by hobbyist racers will make schools safer.

The first 2 times the leader of a non-covenant nation are divinely judged in scripture (Gen 12, 20) is because of sexual immorality. They take a woman who isn't theirs to be with. Their repentance spares the nation, but God's people suffer for encouraging this behavior. May those with ears hear.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Social Media made us more desperate for attention. Now with LLM chatbots offering attention whenever and however we want it, it will create a desperation for trust, even if you don't use them. How many times already have you asked if you are reading someone's words or what an LLM said for them?

An entire article on replacing seminary instruction with AI because AI will be able to "do it better," and not a single bit of reflection on how God used Spirit-filled humans to write the Bible, and how teaching is one of the spiritual gifts. How do you miss this? mereorthodoxy.com/ai-seminaries

"After all, if we hardwire conscience into tools, we shouldn’t be surprised when the wrench decides who’s guilty." www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-to-do...

"We have discovered a new thing that no one has ever thought of before. It will change your life dramatically." - Every new silicon valley startup What it actually means: "We have created a way to collect more of your personal information to sell" Every single time.

Old people have a reputation of not wanting to learn new tech. When I was young, I was excited about it because of what I could gain. As I age I am starting to see more clearly what I will lose. LLMs are remarkable, but they mostly do things I want to keep doing myself. It can be that simple.

I've been stressing in my education circles that we need to expand our focus focus on cheating to also deeply consider the relational impact of "algorithmic companionship" on students. Great piece by @josemarichal.bsky.social

Algorithmic content delivery like from Google, Meta, and TikTok trends toward shopping & conspiratorial thinking (see @lmsacasas.bsky.social's theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/dots-will-...) When new algorithmic content service comes out—like generative AI—you can predict at least two outcomes.

“As an American, I would hope that the U.S. would be the last place that someone who’s fled religious persecution is afraid for their life.” thedispatch.com/article/afgh...

I knew I should have gotten a new everything before the tariffs kicked in.

Excited to try generative AI for lesson planning so I can get back to doing what I love checking assignments for cheating and the follow up conflict Thank you Silicon Valley!

Despite initial fears of AI content being mistaken for real, I think the greater long term impact will be how often real things get dismissed as AI.

There's a non-zero chance that eventually we will discover that a bunch of Venezuelan immigrants' social media was fed through an AI image recognition tool and all the ones with tattoos or making hand signals were flagged and arrested with little to no human investigation.

Sacrilege

Chatbots are not bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. They are not suitable for companionship.

Read an article recently with the line "Move slow and repair things," in contrast with Silicon Valley's "Move fast and break things." That's a proverb that immediately settled right on down in my soul.

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