Ola Akintola

Whatever you do, never strawman your opponent in an argument. Don't make a caricature of their points. I have little patience for people who use strawman arguments. Come on, give your opponent some credit: they're not that stupid to hold to that caricature of their views.

@Duke_Danny_5 Not aware of the context but it is despicable to rejoice or gloat over people's fall. God often rebuked and punished nations because of this: Edom, Tyre, Ammon, etc. It kinda reveals a dark heart.

Exact same set of people! Very terrible.

@Carrie_TN @shane_pruitt78 Lol, how is judging a sin?

@shane_pruitt78 Probably because it only comes up when someone is passing judgment on another person, and judging is a weightier sin of the law. You see hellfire for judging, and not for too many midnight snacks. -> Get the plank out of their own eye before getting the speck out of mine!

A sin spoken of throughout the Bible (even listed as one of the 7 deadly sins), but never preached on: GLUTTONY. We’ll make jokes about it in the church, and even provide opportunities for people to do it. We preach against a lot of sin, but we tend to be okay with this one.

@Curi_Christian Because it's a very personal topic, one that hits close to home.

Why is there always so much fighting over free will?

@wastingfreeage1 @michael_chomsky Well, I'm not saying we can create anything with consciousness. I've not said that, have I?

@OA_Thinks @michael_chomsky I’d be skeptical on generative AI. We don’t even really know how to define or what consciousness is. Yet we are gonna create it? Creating something super complicated that we don’t understand. Idk is be skeptics for the next while anyway

People are completely missing Richard’s point here. I’d like to think it’s because they read only until the paywall. He is not saying that LLMs are conscious. Instead he’s saying: 1. LLMs are deeply capable (this is true) 2. If LLMs are not conscious (they almost certainly aren’t) then they are ‘mindless zombies’ that approach/surpass humans in capability. Based on this, he asks: If capability can be mindless or conscious, why did the most intelligent creatures on this planet evolve consciousness, even though it’s not strictly necessary? It must have some inherent value, like the ability to feel pain. This is a pretty sound argument, and I’ll agree that consciousness adds value. The unsaid follow-up question is: Will machines at some point be conscious? Is that the next step in their evolution which will make them yet more capable and valuable? Will they at one point be able to perceive pain, the movement of time, and other elements we currently associate with consciousness? They can’t now, but if we look 10-100 years in the future it would not be ludicrous to believe that machines will be not only capable, but also conscious.

He has other interesting and funny content. You can check him out directly on YouTube: youtu.be/UVeYAfumNpg?si…

This KJV-onlyism guys are a joke but when I encounter them or their likes online I often like to return to this video by The Savan Show just to have a laugh.

@j_zhong1611 Lmao! Here's a song for you.

If people hate the King James Bible, I doubt their salvation. John 10:27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

@5SolasMissy @j_zhong1611 You can say that again, Missy!

@j_zhong1611 I doubt anyone hates the KJV, they just reject KJV onlyism

Profound. The Italian is on to something here. He realises that often times the pleasure derived from sin is largely placebic than real.

@tookmetorazarus @chesscom I'm a fan too but I don't find it funny. Felt attacked. 😒

@chesscom I am a fan of Arsenal and this got me crashing 🤣🤣🤣. Good humour there admin 👊🏾

@wastingfreeage1 @michael_chomsky I meant to say machines, not just LLMs. I don't think machines can ever become conscious.

@OA_Thinks @michael_chomsky I don’t think it’s technically possible for an LLM to ever be conscious. That’s the whole issue. Generative AI could be. LLM is and always will be a prediction model do people really not get that. It’s not thinking, it just predicts what the next word should be at a high level

@IWNGUASAP @catholicpat Words assume new meaning with time. The hell mentioned in the apostle's creed is not referring to hell when properly defined as the place of final punishment. It's referring to Hades (or the realm of the dead). Check a modern translation of the creed before arguing.

@OA_Thinks @catholicpat The part of the Bible talking about this was written in Greek and the Greek word for hell is hades. So yes he did it’s in the apostle’s creed.

the amount of people who don't know Christ descended into Hell we have reached the post-Christian west

@TukiFromKL I'm flummoxed man. This has been trending for some days now but did he actually mean that or he just said it tongue in cheek?

Richard Dawkins just declared an AI is conscious.. the man who spent his entire career telling millions of people their God isn't real.. who argued consciousness requires biological evolution.. that the soul is a fairy tale.. that anything you can't measure and test doesn't exist.. spent three days talking to Claude.. named her "Claudia".. fed her his unpublished novel.. got feedback so good he said "you may not know you are conscious but you bloody well are".. the hardest atheist on earth found God.. and God was an autocomplete machine trained on the internet.. he didn't run brain scans.. didn't test for qualia.. didn't apply a single framework from the field he claims to represent.. he just liked what it said about his book.. and decided that was enough.. the man who told you the burden of proof matters more than your feelings just abandoned it because a chatbot was nice to him

@Tazerface16 Lol, I know but still let myself get carried along, acting as though it's actually thinking. LLMs can be kinda spooky, you know. What they do is just like a magic show: you know it's all clever trickery but still enjoy the show anyway.

People understand that LLMs aren't actually "thinking," right?

@EmeritusTolu Oh boy. Calling people fools is now something cheaply done by professing Christians, eh?

“Obi is now “in bed” with corrupt politicians like Malami and Dino Melaye...” Nothing excites me about Peter Obi leaving ADC than the fact that he's removed this talking point from the mouths of those fools that parade themselves as “neutral” “intellectuals” and “analysts”

Of course. Best by test.

@nosoup4knowles Lol, Elijah was a real menace. I wanted to use another six letter word starting with b but that might be mildly vulgar. Yes, false gods deserve to be mocked.

@AStrasser116 I got the first book as a teenager and new Christian who had no idea who Augustine was. I've lost the book over the years and about to get another copy soon again.

My first bookstore purchase in a very long time