Brandon Duke

Sometimes fantasy is a useful process for developing a better reality

Biblically, death is the loss of conscious human function. Jesus experienced this. He was dead for three days. God does not die.

Problems for the trinity that trinitarians claim are “not problems”. Day 46.

@KameronMazurek Yessir, that may be my favorite episode.

@Brandon_W_Duke Fellow West Wing fan I see

“The friend says, yeah, but I’ve been down here before, and I know the way out.”

Yes, I know, I know.... Jesus didn't suffer in his divine nature, he only suffered in his human nature... The whole argument is insufferable.

Just believe it.

@PracticalTheolo Mans gotta practice somewhere… 😆

I should create a Trinitarian sock puppet account so I can crash Unitarian threads and see how I do. 😂😂😂

Dustin Smith demonstrates that Phil 2:5-11 has nothing to do with preexistence.

Problems for the trinity that trinitarians claim are “not problems”. Day 45.

@DiscipleFidei I guess the triune God is to blame.

Enjoy John Piper explaining the “self love” of the triune God. Note: Please turn off your brain before listening.

Things are apparently not going well in Athanasius-land:

Problems for the trinity that trinitarians claim are “not problems”. Day 44.

@PracticalTheolo You used to be able to get that version of the Bible here. But they are going out of business it seems.

Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician. Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive. And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless. Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.” For five hundred years, the idea was the prize. The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed. That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for. Gone. A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses. A thousand of them. Before dinner. The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room. Now it is the cheapest. But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow. Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.” Sit with that. We automated creation. We did not automate truth. We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon. We cannot tell you which ones are real. That is not a gap. That is a chasm. And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now. Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.” The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce. Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate. That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it. Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output. They are now absorbing machine-speed volume. And they are cracking under it. Tao compared it to the internet. The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside. AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself. Infinite generation. Zero verification. The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less. The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more. That is the inversion nobody is processing. Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content. Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct. And that is the only system that matters. Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market. They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through. The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer. The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real. And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand. That is not a research problem. That is the race beneath the race. And almost nobody has entered it.

Navigating the Discourse is better then Avoiding the Discourse

Consider that the dumbest people you know are repeatedly being told "You're absolutely right!" by LLMs.

Problems for the trinity that trinitarians claim are “not problems”. Day 42.