{"id":7148,"date":"2023-03-03T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2023-03-03T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:20:26","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/03\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-392","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 392"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>     On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>392 is a <a href=\"https:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/HarshadNumber.html\">Harshad Number<\/a> in base 5, where it is written as 3032 base 5. The sum of its digits is 13 base 5, which divides to 144 base 5, thereby fulfilling the conditions for a Harshad Number. In base five. Kinda feels like a stretch to be honest. 392 is not a super-interesting number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/dishonor-code-what-happens-when-cheating\" target=\"_blank\">Dishonor Code: What Happens When Cheating Becomes the Norm<\/a>? (Suzy Weiss, The Free Press): \u201cAnd at Dartmouth\u2014once the reserve of the WASPiest of the WASPs, in beautiful, cloistered Hanover, New Hampshire\u2014an anonymous source told me that students have developed the habit of breaking into groups of four when given online multiple-choice quizzes. Each guesses a different answer (A, B, C, or D) to each question. Because students get two chances to take the quiz\u2014why that is, no one seems to know\u2014they all have the right answer by the time they take the quiz for a second time. And wind up with a perfect score. They don\u2019t even have to read the question. If you\u2019re reading the question, you\u2019re doing it&nbsp;wrong.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Related: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/stanford-has-an-integrity-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Has an Integrity Problem<\/a> (Thomas Adamo, The Stanford Review): \u201cWhen students nearly unanimously agree that it would be better to lie and cheat their way through school than fail or scrape by on their own merit, is it really that surprising to know that as fully-socialized Stanford grads they would also try to lie and cheat and scrape their way through their careers, their projects and their relationships. Virtue is a habit that must be practiced repeatedly\u2014strengthened like a muscle\u2014not left as an exercise to the reader.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/25\/opinion\/religious-revival-christianity-asbury-kentucky.html?unlocked_article_code=JzUt0-As_GN4caHkhFRgaSwL7bnihPoSUIqDIM0_f5cxUR1O0XG27G0ZwtQmmlkME5YjmDF-MfRJmyAx_SJLwULyCkc-Addz_qxvzV1gLT4ur9p4mW7pwYi9bdqyAdAoftI-uAAstbcaCBd8_PuQzz9hIuo8RPreLP2nGqYKVrl81lE3c45C7Hx5hUnpf-AgWykWR1RvuYesiNjbmeDRTVeM1g1w2GMrz9g0WWAK5Y6NgUpxNEJH3HBO6SenhLGeJ8YviwYFo0xqEnRw1yKxJC0YVbddh0HTeIgvefLn6JPNl_OPPshHszJN54ULNQbN3ztTkzI7Col2meVBMSZ1CMRp_EFdPrTk9czZbBF1-NkgkojbiN-dpg&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">Why You Can\u2019t Predict the Future of Religion<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201c\u2026religious history is shaped as much by sudden irruptions as long trajectories, as much by the mystical and personal as by the institutional and sociological.\u2026 I can quote you chapter and verse on the reasonability of theism, but in the causal chain of history I\u2019m a Christian because two thousand years ago a motley group of provincials in Roman Palestine believed they\u2019d seen their teacher heal the sick and raise the dead and then rise transfigured from the grave \u2014 and then because, two millenniums later, as a child in suburban Connecticut, I watched my own parents fall to the floor and speak in tongues.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I have unlocked the paywall for this one (I can unlock ten NYT articles a&nbsp;month).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thezvi.substack.com\/p\/fertility-rate-roundup-1?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Fertility Rate Roundup #1<\/a> (Zvi Mowshowitz, Substack): \u201cThis looks like a <em>fantastically successful <\/em>program. The previous trend was declining births. At the cost of <em>$1,000 per child <\/em>in progressive transfer payments, Australia seemingly raised births by 6%. That\u2019s about $17k per additional birth. Insanely cheap. I am confident China would be thrilled to pay <em>quite a lot more <\/em>than that. America would be insane not to, we would save more money than this on long term interest rates on our government debt&nbsp;alone.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is honestly one of the greatest global crisis and not nearly enough people are talking intelligently about&nbsp;it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In related news, this is one of the ways religion triumphs over secularism. Religious people reproduce (and usually pass on their values to their children) and far too many secular people die lonely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/noahpinion.substack.com\/p\/the-build-nothing-country?r=2l16f&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\" target=\"_blank\">The Build-Nothing Country<\/a> (Noah Smith, Substack): \u201cFor decades now, Americans have told ourselves that we\u2019re the richest nation on Earth, and that as long as we had the political will to write big checks, we could do anything we wanted. But that was never really true, was it? The inflation that followed the pandemic should have been a wake-up call \u2014 we had all this excess cash, and we started spending it on physical goods, and mostly what happened was just that the price of the physical goods went up. And so R.I.P. to all that cash. From meaningless numbers on a spreadsheet you came, and to meaningless numbers on a spreadsheet you shall return.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/26\/opinion\/microsoft-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=eEnsBrzhqSCjEXopbYqnBraRK26Jd2zE9xwAhxNJtwUHEoqCC1LT4CuYEpcK9jxhQysbvCq15xFvdq8D8ozIyn3aZieqpiQBy0LLgCsGXiGogl_uHBdUouxtWdGY7oVviYZK2qdQkHN1VXu6Z1he92fqxkzIObEHEUaF47Muw4lG_7sV-OfGnZd4zD7mLDKIQ5dRtFeANqQTKvho4DZdwXeA2yJ6IRG6IwqFhgy9l79kWAVkkmuN07v5ROShzIS9ZoVxmuLr4WY3nkAJboGpUzrUyex1Vvv_borPlw-jfP2qLIbFYjEFSP08LLyYzF-QVR4LLJpcdAZ-W89AWgJIkSyrDn_f6vlpZbj2IiaZpZq6gbzgLWT_&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We\u2019re Not Talking About<\/a> (Ezra Klein, The New York Times): \u201cThe question at the core of the Roose\/Sydney chat is: Who did Bing serve? We assume it should be aligned to the interests of its owner and master, Microsoft. It\u2019s supposed to be a good chatbot that politely answers questions and makes Microsoft piles of money. But it was in conversation with Kevin Roose. And Roose was trying to get the system to say something interesting so he\u2019d have a good story. It did that, and then some. That embarrassed Microsoft. Bad Bing! But perhaps \u2014 good Sydney?\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I have unlocked the paywall for this&nbsp;one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In wild AI news: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/stablediffusion-with-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity with Stable Diffusion<\/a> (Yu Takagim, Shinji Nishimoto, Google Sites): \u201cWe demonstrate that our simple framework can reconstruct high-resolution images from brain activity with high semantic fidelity, without the need for training or fine-tuning of complex deep generative models.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ideassleepfuriously.com\/p\/is-physical-attractiveness-normally\" target=\"_blank\">Is Physical Attractiveness Normally Distributed?<\/a> (anonymous, Substack): \u201cThis may explain in part why, although we see assortative mating in physical attractiveness (men and women pick partners of a similar level of physical attractiveness), women are also slightly more attractive on average than their partners (McNulty, 2008). There may be a good explanation for this as well. Jokela (2009) found that moderately attractive women were more likely to reproduce (7%), while highly attractive women were even more likely to reproduce (16%). Moreover, both were more likely to have daughters than sons. As such, we see a gradual shift over time of women becoming more physically attractive than&nbsp;men.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author\u2019s bio says he\u2019s a grad student in cognitive psych, but is pretty vague on details. His online handle is Alexander.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/have-the-ancient-gods-returned\/\" target=\"_blank\">Have The Ancient Gods Returned?<\/a> (Naomi Wolf, Brownstone Institute): \u201cThe sheer amoral power of Baal, the destructive force of Moloch, the unrestrained seductiveness and sexual licentiousness of Astarte or Ashera \u2014 those are the primal forces that do indeed seem to me to have \u2018returned.\u2019&nbsp; Or at least the energies that they represent \u2014 moral power over; death-worship; antagonism to the sexual orderliness of the intact family and faithful relationships \u2014 seem to have \u2018returned,\u2019 without restraint.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Naomi Wolf is a controversial and well-known feminist who has her PhD from Oxford. This long essay is a wild ride. She is writing as a Jew in response to a book by a Christian (who is himself a Messianic Jew).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/to-catch-up-on-todays-news-man-just-reads-conspiracy-theorists-2-year-old-blog-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">To Catch Up On Today\u2019s News, Man Just Reads 2\u2011Year-Old Posts On Conspiracy Blog<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CoztxQSIAgt\/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Showing Bible Verses To This Generation<\/a> (Instagram)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/V9MPXxq\" target=\"_blank\">A Funny Prank<\/a> (Imgur): Fairly short<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/world\/remote-kissing-device-is-here-for-long-distance-couples-how-internet-is-reacting-to-chinese-innovation-11677391433529.html\" target=\"_blank\">Remote kissing device is here for long-distance couples: How Internet is reacting to Chinese innovation<\/a> (Sounak Mukhopadhyay, LiveMint): \u201cThe device, dubbed as the \u2018kissing device,\u2019 is an invention of a university in Changzhou, China. The contraption comes equipped with \u2018silicone lips,\u2019 pressure sensors and actuators, and can replicate the pressure, movement, and temperature of a user\u2019s lips. The China-run Global Times reported that the device is capable of mimicking a real&nbsp;kiss.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Link this up with ChatGPT and we\u2019re well on our way to a sci-fi dystopia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/shocking-study-shows-more-kids-identifying-as-part-of-worlds-most-celebrated-popular-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shocking Study Shows More Kids Identifying As Members Of World\u2019s Most Celebrated, Popular Group<\/a> (Babylon Bee)&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Often just reading a Bee headline is enough. In this case the article takes it to an even better level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/arts-letters\/articles\/woke-language-privilege\" target=\"_blank\">The Language of Privilege<\/a> (Nicholas Clairmont, Tablet Magazine): \u201cSo, in the end, the question raised by wokeness is a simple one: Doesn\u2019t it actually just favor rich people?\u201d From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/10\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-271\" target=\"_blank\">volume 271<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way. 392 is a Harshad Number in base 5, where it is written as 3032 base 5. The sum of \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/03\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 392\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"This roundup of links seems odd to me. 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