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@groundruled

All I need is the Stars and Stripes, a pickup truck, and some Zach Bryan. I don't get offended. While you were Jester Gooning we were woke maxxing

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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@Jiii_16 @SpeedWatkins Both are true you have free will, but God chose every free will decision you’ll ever make. He knew every choice you’d make in every world and chose this combination of free will choices. To say otherwise is to limit His power or foreknowledge
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John Read
John Read@Jiii_16·
@groundruled @SpeedWatkins And free will was granted because he didn’t want robots. The world in which salvation for all is fully predetermined is NOT a world of true free will.
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@Jiii_16 @SpeedWatkins You’re treating God’s power like it’s bounded by human limits. At creation, He saw every possible world to its end and chose this one. In some, you’re saved; in others, you aren’t. He chose the one where you are. That was the ultimate act of grace
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Brianna Wu
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu·
I sure disagree with Owen on Palestine. But I appreciate that he’s willing to speak out on what’s happening to trans women in the UK, which is literally stripping them of basic civil rights and making it impossible for them to live lives with dignity.
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno

Britain is now only just above Russia and Hungary on trans rights. We are below Armenia, Romania, Kosovo, Turkey, Serbia and Belarus. The anti-trans movement has, for now, won a decisive victory in Britain. It will not last. This historic injustice will be rectified.

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Daniel Han
Daniel Han@danielhanchen·
Qwen3.6 MTP Unsloth GGUFs now run 1.8x faster, increased from 1.4x just two days ago! This is due to llama.cpp adding --spec-draft-p-min 0.75! Args have also changed from --spec-type mtp to --spec-type draft-mtp Also increase --spec-draft-n-max 2 to 6 We also released Qwen3.6-0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B MTP GGUFs! We'll be providing more soon! For folks who find the new updated branch to have some perf regression, set --spec-draft-p-min to 0.0 to get the old behavior - we provided a plot of the old branch (red) vs the new branch (blue / green) as well. Also you can use 2 speculative decoding algos - you can add ngram via --spec-type ngram-mod,draft-mtp - the perf isn't yet optimized so I'll do more benchmarks to find better numbers - see github.com/ggml-org/llama… Guide for MTP: #mtp-guide" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unsloth.ai/docs/models/qw…
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@trivialorfalse @HistoryBoomer If you highly value internal consistency changing one view could be an arduous review of your other views. Usually it means your world model is missing something. I could see that being a good but time consuming thing that might not even result in other changes
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I ❤️ thought experiments
I ❤️ thought experiments@trivialorfalse·
@HistoryBoomer How reluctantly? I don't know if this is rare but I LOVE the feeling of being persuaded...persuaded to something I disbelieved before. I find it thrilling. Is that not so with you?
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Carl
Carl@HistoryBoomer·
Not having a theory of mind for people one disagrees with is a common problem, but so is being unable to consider the possibility that you might be wrong on an issue. I try to have a corner of my brain always wondering, "But what if I'm wrong?" At a minimum, it helps with seeing things from someone else's point of view. At best, it sometimes leads me to change my mind (reluctantly, of course!).
Carl@HistoryBoomer

I’m a liberal who can model that pro-life conservatives think abortion is murder. I agree that not all liberals can, but plenty of conservatives can’t model liberals for crap either. Lacking a theory of mind for opponents is common across the entire political spectrum.

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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@Yayay82827 @SpeedWatkins Totally valid argument. I do think the theoretical existence of a valid theodicy would be a defeater for the problem of suffering (even the evidential version). The problem would evolve some combination of divine hiddenness with that theodicy I assume. Or doctrinal issues with it
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Ego Eimi
Ego Eimi@Yayay82827·
@groundruled @SpeedWatkins Yeah but if a theodicy exists its absurdly complicated, and there's gotta be an argument that if a theodicy existed, for the good of the suffering, it would be very easily accessible. the lack of a theodicy is a bit of suffering that a theodicy would have to explain i suppose
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@real_dreamr @SpeedWatkins As an old earther I found the ice rings for polar or high altitude ice going back up to 800k yrs and the seasonal rings lining up with decay rates interesting. Annual laminated lake sediments go back to 50k yrs. Volcanic rocks can go back millions with potassium/argon ratios
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Benjamin Blake Speed Watkins 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Benjamin Blake Speed Watkins 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@SpeedWatkins·
I would add that certain, mundane facts are much more likely given naturalism than theism: 4. The success of methodological naturalism 5. My mind is here and yours is there 6. The Earth is very old
Real Atheology@RealAtheology

1. The Argument from the Simplicity of Atheism + Failure of Natural Theology (Mackie, Sobel, Oppy, Draper) 2. Arguments from Evil (Rowe, Russell, Draper Tooley, etc) 3. Arguments from Divine Hiddenness (Schellenberg). J.L. Mackie's "The Miracle of Theism" is a great start.

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Cameron@groundruled·
@Yayay82827 @SpeedWatkins In theory if one theodicy is valid then all faith could be justified in it. Rare doctrines could build a valid theodicy grounded in the religion. Maybe some mix of liberation + theosis + universalism could in theory justify a whole religion facing suffering. Why the problem lives
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@ektromati @SpeedWatkins An all good all powerful God as D describes likely falls into the perfect world issue no matter what theism you follow. A perfect being God would likely pass on morality in some form. If not that would be unlikely to be a perfect being God. Tweet length limits make it hard to say
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@groundruled @SpeedWatkins This is a somewhat related but different matter. I sort of get what you are getting at, but some clarification would help. That said, the argument I asked about is a more general perfect-being theism argument. One can be a perfect-being theist without being a Christian.
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@Yayay82827 @SpeedWatkins The theory relies on the idea that perfectly following God’s instruction would lead to these things being resolvable. People couldn’t follow basic hygiene instruction how can we expect following revelation to cure bone cancer? Though, I don’t think humanity can follow those laws
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@Yayay82827 @SpeedWatkins Liberation theology gets close. Blame natural evil on avoiding God’s commands to be healthy, care of the poor, relocate against natural disaster risk, and common good. Transfers blame of world from God to humanity. Theosis as a goal can require suffering or free will logically
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@tensorproducer @SpeedWatkins You’re not self described as perfect. If you did that would be a lie based on your own imperfections. The same scrutiny needs be applied to God who has claimed perfection. Arguably, you can make arguments that perfection is an anthropomorphic lens of God. Though that’s hard to me
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Daniel Cloud
Daniel Cloud@tensorproducer·
@SpeedWatkins So is it your position that you would be better off dead, or having never existed? Do you really object to your own existence as an imperfect but still good person? Because I think there is some good in me, and I do not regret my own existence despite my many flaws.
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@SkyAnomalies05 @SpeedWatkins Thomas Aquinas would argue. God’s not a creature and is pure act and his nature is goodness that set in stone. God has no deliberative will. How could something without time choose? To avoid the Euthyphro dilemma God is not free to change, add, subtract, feel. God necessarily is
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Craft.Beard
Craft.Beard@SkyAnomalies05·
@SpeedWatkins Which just raises the question "well then does that mean there are certain goods God is unable to bring about since he is not a free creature?"
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@ektromati @SpeedWatkins Short answer, no. Avoidance costs. If a perfectly good God implies the morality in the Bible is a limited/flawed guide of true morality (selecting this known specific world of suffering; is inflicting morally perfect suffering) or that morality is inherently whatever God desires
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@Yayay82827 @SpeedWatkins According to open theists God tried to do this and failed with Eden. Eden is the proof a theodicy is needed to build heaven. That’s a God that can fail but that’s arguably more plausible than a God that intentionally failed. Interesting
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Ego Eimi
Ego Eimi@Yayay82827·
@SpeedWatkins Per Christians, God can create a realm of perfect beings with free will. He knows what everyone would do in every scenario, since most say omniscience includes middle knowledge. Soooo why not only create those who would say yes in some scenario, in heaven, and skip this vale.
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@SpeedWatkins Perfect world isn’t possible; you can always add saints. The greatest conceivable being argument for God is visualizing something nothing can be added to. Can’t apply to a world. Perfection is impossible in a world. Premise D fails. Arguably a perfect being wouldn’t create at all
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@DaveBl4ck @SpeedWatkins This is an internal critique of our own position. We claim God is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving. From that, the moral sense written on our hearts should line up with the world we live in and the scripture we read. Slavery is wrong. Genocide is wrong. Suffering is wrong
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Dave Black
Dave Black@DaveBl4ck·
@SpeedWatkins This is really weird. Christians don't claim this world is perfect or that God's perfection entails the world being perfect. It's like you don't know anything at all about Christianity and are attacking a strange straw man.
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@Jiii_16 @SpeedWatkins How does the mechanism work? Perfection shares God’s incorruptibility. A perfect pre-fall world, perfectly foreknown, contains its own rupture from the start. Corruption becomes impossible by definition
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John Read
John Read@Jiii_16·
@SpeedWatkins Your basic facts are wrong, since God did create a perfect world. It was the fall of the devil and mankind that corrupted it and brought about death, disease and suffering.
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Cameron
Cameron@groundruled·
@PrayPuffPlay @markgamache @SpeedWatkins I think it’s fair to say Hebrews highly anthropomorphized divinity. Regretting is probably part of that. Only open theism argues otherwise. That’s a creature divinity that is really ancient
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BQM
BQM@PrayPuffPlay·
@markgamache @SpeedWatkins I’ve always thought it was pretty interesting God regretted making humans. You could say that is a major problem to an omnipotent and omniscient being. I don’t think it *necessarily* does and actually adds some really great insights to Ben’s concerns.
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