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Honored to contribute an article to the latest issue of @Themelios_TGC. “Baptist Catholicity in the Ecclesiology of John Gill.”
thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/arti…
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Christopher Green
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Christopher Green
@ParticularGreen
PhD Student @MBTS - Researching Scholasticism & John Gill - opinions are my own
شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2022
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@ParticularGreen @itsmejono What do you think of the Gollem movie?
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@bytelynx @itsmejono Agreed! Adapting a plot, not making a new plot out of a few chapters.
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@ParticularGreen @itsmejono Neither is Peter Jackson but he did a good job
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Christopher Green ری ٹویٹ کیا
New books coming this year. 💯
More to come. 🚀
Pre-orders available in due course. ✅
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@reformedtexan One thing I have found in reading and translating primary sources is that authors do unexpected things. If Burgersdijk does something unexpected with syntax or content, and Claude, an LLM operating off of probability, normalizes it, how would your process catch it?
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@ParticularGreen Spot-checking. Because I know what I expect to read linguistically and with regard to content, I read through and check places where I have questions. That’s what I mean. Good question!
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@jonathanramont Gotta say, I’m wary of the degree to which AI factors into the workflow here.
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It's great to see Burgersdijk get more attention. One of the most important protestant philosophers of his day.
Michael J. Lynch@reformedtexan
Link below.
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Was Adam made with supernatural graces? (Yes)
Here I address a few questions about merit and grace, the relationship between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, and more.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathanra…
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@reformedtexan Hey @reformedtexan. Quick question based on your note - are you hand-checking every word of the translation against the original Latin, or are you only spot-checking? If you’re only spot-checking, what is your process for determining what to spot-check, and how often you do so?
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@warne Gotta love that he’s still in a suit in the first picture.
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@glennbutner Good points. My thoughts are half-baked, but a possible point four is that AI is always tempts one to abuse and cognitive offloading. E.g. ChatGPT, *defaults* to rewrites. You have to be very careful with prompting to get it to *only* proof for you and even show changes.
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How is generative AI different from grammarly in terms of ethics?
1) theft: the former is trained on authors’ writings without citation or payment.
2) truthfulness: AI doesn’t intend, so can’t quite lie, but it’s hallucinations are not truthful, though common.
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@NeilShenvi @JLSteffaniak Well pract. likelihood for misuse is a correlate, and matters in classroom policy. AI is so good at what it does that it powerfully incentivizes cognitive offloading. Navigating that well requires a level of virtue and wisdom that cannot be broadly expected from a student body.
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@ParticularGreen @JLSteffaniak It's possible, but many people who are arguing against AI based on the practical likelihood of its misuse say so explicitly.
And many others are quite clear that they think AI itself is unethical, not merely its misuse.
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"AI is unethical!"
"Why?"
"Because students will use AI to cheat!"
Friend, this argument entails that pencils are unethical.
Neil Shenvi@NeilShenvi
In particular, if your argument against AI pushes you into a reductio ad absurdum like "spell-checkers are unethical" or "thesauruses are unethical," you need to rethink your objections.
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@NeilShenvi @JLSteffaniak Conceding AI’s considerable benefits, I would challenge you to consider that some of your interlocutors come off that way not because they view AI as a “homework machine,” but because many students do, and that turns out to be the decisive factor for how they end up using it.
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See my response below. I wonder if part of the problem is that many people concieve of AI as nothing more than a "homework machine" because they haven't used it much.
Of course, we shoul be mindful of how AI use will shape the user (same with books, movies, social media, computers, internet, etc.).
But there's still a big gap to "no AI at all."
x.com/NeilShenvi/sta…
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@NeilShenvi @JLSteffaniak *To the techs at play*, sorry
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@NeilShenvi @JLSteffaniak Do they? E.g. the “reductio” above seems to rely on an equivocation on the term “use,” whereas to “use” a pencil and to “use” an LLM are entirely different kinds of activities. To @JLSteffaniak’s point, we need to dig deeper to at play and how they shape the “user.”
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On campus this week @MBTS for a seminar on philosophical theology and here is what I am seeing:
*Happy students - I am blown away by how happy the students seem to be here. They are engaged and energized.
*Accessible faculty - I ran into multiple professors today just being with students. Talking with them, sitting with them.
*Hospitality - @drandrewmking invited me to come train jiu jitsu with him this week, @KodyGibby ran into me and suggested lunch. This seems normal here.
*Professors are interested in ideas - This might sound obvious, but I've been in three different seminaries and let me tell you: It's not. The professors at MBTS are interested in serious engagement with ideas. They are neither dismissive nor disinterested.
If you are looking to jump into seminary education, take it from someone who has degrees from three other strong seminaries: Nobody is doing what MBTS is doing like they are doing it. They are operating at a different level right now.
Dive in.
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Where have we seen this before?
Pre-Christian Rome.
You have no idea how much Christianity did for children.
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000
In Pakistan, girls are considered a family burden, so Muslim fathers often discard newborn babies by throwing them into garbage piles. Headlines periodically emerge about this horrific practice after local residents hear cries and pull out the babies. Indeed, Pakistani Muslim fathers don’t even bother killing the infants before throwing them away. Almost all the dead babies suffered until their last breath, either from suffocation, being crushed under garbage, or dying of thirst. In Islam, women and girls are treated worse than animals. Not all cultures are equal!
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Can’t think of a more important cultural talking point for Christians than the *joy* of parenthood, and the acceptance of children in society. It confronts:
- The sexualization of society
- The destruction of the family
- The rudderlessness of young men
- Hyper-individualism
Josh Wood@J_K_Wood
After this moment, these men will statistically earn more, live longer, nearly halve their substance use, commit far less crime, and have their brains literally rewired for protection. Men need children. Children need fathers. Society needs both.
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If the culture wars come down to Bad Bunny vs. Kid Rock, then it's already over, because there is no culture worth the name. The biggest mistake the conservative movement ever made was letting pop culture become the only culture.
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