Conley Owens 🦡
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Conley Owens 🦡
@SiliconConley
🧔 Father of 10. ⛪ Pastor of Silicon Valley Reformed Baptist Church. 💻 Software Engineer.
Sunnyvale, CA Katılım Nisan 2014
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How bad would AI-generated code be if it wrote large systems in assembly? That’s AI art today: generating pixels, not structures.
Art and video capabilities will leap with the shift to higher-level outputs. Critics of AI art tend to miss this.
Try ArtCraft@get_artcraft
@ImKingGinger We make AI tools for *ARTISTS*. We also make them Open Source We're doing the hard work to show folks that creative, long-form AI is a tool and an artistic medium It's just a new way to express your vision and view. And you have to learn how to do it. Nobody starts off good
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@JLSteffaniak I’m not sure the point of your previous comment. I haven’t refused to give an account in our discussion, and I’ve also done so elsewhere:
sellingjesus.org/articles/shoul…
Re: giving all possessions to the poor, neither of us believe that is a universal command.
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@SiliconConley Conley, I encourage you to give of your possessions to the poor and remove yourself from gainful employment to avoid staining yourself with monetary possessions. For as you know, the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
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Amazon says I'm better than Irenaeus but worse than Enoch.
Take that for what it's worth.
amzn.to/4kVuilz
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@JLSteffaniak It really does surprise me how little obligation people feel to have some meaningful account for how they aren’t violating the repeated commands of Scripture not to peddle divine truth (2 Cor 2:17; Mat 10:8; etc.)
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@JLSteffaniak I have found that dismissal is the best argument that people have. However, if you think you may have a better argument—either historically or biblically—why the sale of Christian teaching should not be regarded as simony, I’m open to further discussion.
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Conley Owens 🦡@SiliconConley
It’s been 3.5 months since I posted this debate challenge; still no takers.
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View from my desk.
The lines are drawn for me in pleasant places.
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@JLSteffaniak No, I think you signed over those rights.
We should all be offering our teaching without money and without price! (As did the theologians of generations past.)
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Conley Owens 🦡 retweetledi
Whenever someone says using AI to create art takes no effort, it's a sure sign they have made no effort to use AI
to make art.
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@SpencerWall509 It’s not awkward. Fathers don’t hesitate to tell their children their role; why should pastors their flocks? But living in an egalitarian society will do that to you. Learn to see your unease as a result of imbibing the world’s perspective, then you can mortify it appropriately.
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It’s really awkward being a pastor and preaching a passage on how the congregation is supposed to treat pastors (1 Thes. 5:12-13).
Just curious: do you have a particular approach for these kinds of passages?
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Stop sending me your AI music, people.
I am begging you. 😂
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@LexhamPress You have an amazing opportunity to release them all for free! Please do! (Matt 10:8).
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“Hi Lexham fans, my name’s Jesse and I am the CEO of Baker Publishing Group, but before that job I was the publisher of Lexham Press. Late last year, Baker acquired Lexham from Logos Bible Software. So, Lexham’s books are now being integrated into the Baker system. Most of them will become either Baker Books or Baker Academic titles. There was also a large number of Lexham titles under contract, and those will eventually be published by Baker. We also welcomed some key staff over from Lexham.
I know for some of you it may come as a surprise, but both for the books and for the authors, this is great news. Lexham’s books will live on within the larger Baker ecosystem, we maintain a close relationship with Logos, and those books are still a part of that platform.
Lexham published books that loved the word, loved the faith, and loved the church. That spirit is very much alive at Baker. So please watch this space as we continue to talk about the great books that we are all bringing to the world.”
--Jesse Myers, CEO of Baker Publishing Group
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POLL: For those who have thought about this, broadly speaking, the precious promise that we will “see God” is …
(1) Direct intuition of divine essence
(2) Mediated sight of divine glory
(3) Vision through Christ’s glorified face
(4) Mystery / Symbol for total fellowship
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@JLSteffaniak @dokimazete It’s a serious (and ancient) position. Rather than dismiss, why not schedule a public convo?
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When I researched sermon plagiarism last year, I omitted Jordan Steffaniak’s 2021 article for The London Lyceum from serious consideration. Despite his positive reception among some Christians, the piece proved disappointing:
thelondonlyceum.com/sermon-plagiar…
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@StatlerMatthew @dokimazete In short, it’s the apostolic method. But there’s a mountain of 19th century literature that argues this. (I recommend starting with Broadus’s text on preaching, but it’s likely you have already read it.)
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@SiliconConley @dokimazete I'll have to hear your arguments for Preaching ought to be extemporaneous sometime!
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After reviewing several critiques of AI-assisted sermon preparation earlier this year, I’ve refined my position: I really don’t think there is a functional difference in the ethics of AI use between the preparation phase and the writing phase.
neoluddite@dokimazete
I spent the past week reviewing and refuting the main Reformed/Evangelical arguments against AI in sermon prep so you don't have to. Here is a curated index of the main critics and why their arguments miss the mark: 🧵
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@StatlerMatthew @dokimazete There’s probably a ton of other things to say, but yes:
1) The command to meditate requires we don’t use technology as a replacement for memory
2) Preaching ought to be extemporaneous, which also would keep one from relying too much on technology
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@dokimazete @SiliconConley I also wonder about the oral preparation with AI in conversation, the way some talk through a passage in rehearsal but getting instant feedback. It would take a carefully modulated AI but I wonder if it would return to more oral preparation than written.
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@gymbrall Where fellow man includes both the coerced giver and receiver; and these are just the pre-Genesis 3 issues with the objective.
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@SiliconConley Anyone working toward an environment that provides or "requires" universal basic income is working to destroy the fundamental well-being of their fellow men.
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Thread on William Perkins on dreams🧵🧵🧵
These following statements are from William Perkins' book "A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft" chapter 3 'Of the Kinds of Witchcraft, and First of Divination' roughly quoted and paraphrased without my own thoughts or interpretations.
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safari 🦡@safariwillii
From the limited amount of puritans I have read they were open to the possibility of supernatural dreams, they also seemed to be very skeptical of them generally. William Perkins in "A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft" says: "... it must be remembered, that howsoever there are and have been distinct sorts of dreams, yet those which are from God, were only in ordinary use in the O.T., and in the Church of the New are ceased, and take no place ordinarily." William Perkins explicitly disagrees with your statement that these things take place *ordinarily* in the lives of Christians. The full John Owen quote you shared is: "How far God is pleased to continue this ministration of angels unto this day is hard to determine: for as many have pretended unto revelations by angels, which have been mere delusions of Satan or imaginations of their own brains, so to say that God doth not or may not send his angels unto any of his saints, to communicate his mind unto them as to some particulars of their own duty, according unto his word, or to foreshow unto them somewhat of his own approaching work, seems, in my judgment, unwarrantably to limit the Holy One of Israel. Howbeit such things in particular are to be duly weighed with sobriety and reverence." Both are pretty clearly not in principle against extraordinary revelation but carry a skepticism that leads them to conclude that majority of those claiming to receive dreams from God/angels are not legitimate. If we (confessionally reformed) don't carry the same healthy skepticism we will very quickly fall to witchcraft like the papists and charismatics.
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@ZacharyGarris @saltedsaint @ABereanOne The rainbow is still in the sky for all to see.
Even if you don’t accept the universal scope of the Noahic covenant, DVD does, so this isn’t a valid internal critique as framed.
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@SiliconConley @saltedsaint @ABereanOne The Noahic covenant was made with Noah (a believer) and his children. That was “all men” at the time lol.
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