{"id":7167,"date":"2023-03-31T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:28:58","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/03\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-396","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 396"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">396 is <a href=\"https:\/\/oeis.org\/wiki\/Annotated_version_of_%22What%27s_Special_About_This_Number%3F%22_(Part_0)\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oeis.org\/wiki\/Annotated_version_of_%22What%27s_Special_About_This_Number%3F%22_(Part_0)\">appar\u00adent\u00adly<\/a> the num\u00adber of 3x3 slid\u00ading puz\u00adzle posi\u00adtions that require exact\u00adly 11 moves to solve start\u00ading with a hole in the cen\u00adter. I have not ver\u00adi\u00adfied that claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/26\/opinion\/christianity-global-demographics.html?unlocked_article_code=ZuJ1HjYP2zuy2LzBKTmU4cpuyzl_4N94cNL5dBCNui-MbqO7cESJlRCu076b04wSNqL4tJ8LRe96TTMTtog4QpQuvLxfhBnFzhZapOmYFZcXCIDbjTCSFtESHAWaG5mTv8MBgVInDl6oMH14CBoeIgesvHbkmA5t1WsH9g5RVDSZqEyPvQMee7jtwk74U6Us4SdRuEDn_F1Uu2G0t-osGvPe_of7njQLQ4lM45Vp1NnFAI9Cw7bxZb7kLT-h2Bp7vCRWHS_w8tqSfjywT6RkilTi_f8G5B15_BvKPQnmOaSkfdyGqHjtbUxKVGcFvOdES_8K5m0_QXnIANxGQG540M7QlrD6Yv-GCPU&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">The Glob\u00adal Trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Is Here<\/a> (Tish Har\u00adri\u00adson War\u00adren, The New York Times): \u201cMul\u00adti\u00adple schol\u00adars point to West\u00adern Europe as an exam\u00adple of what\u2019s to come in the Unit\u00aded States. Today, the three largest Protes\u00adtant church\u00ades in Paris are Afro-Caribbean evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal megachurch\u00ades of a charis\u00admat\u00adic or Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal bent. A study last year exam\u00adined Chi\u00adnese church\u00ades in Britain that were expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading expo\u00adnen\u00adtial growth, some\u00adtimes dou\u00adbling or tripling in size in a few years. Last April, the Ital\u00adian Chi\u00adnese The\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Sem\u00adi\u00adnary opened in Rome to train Man\u00addarin- and Can\u00adtonese-speak\u00ading pas\u00adtors. Some of the largest megachurch\u00ades in metro Lon\u00addon are led by Africans, includ\u00ading Kingsway Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Chris\u00adt\u00adian Cen\u00adter, which is led by a Niger\u00adian, Matthew Ashimolowo, and is most like\u00adly the largest church in Europe.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I have unlocked this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The school shoot\u00ading in Nashville was the defin\u00ading news event of the week. This sto\u00adry is a tragedy fea\u00adtur\u00ading three hot-but\u00adton top\u00adics: trans issues, Chris\u00adt\u00adian per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion, and guns. A lot more is going to come out about this and peo\u00adple on the left and the right are going to lose their minds try\u00ading to spin it. If you see some\u00adthing that thought\u00adful\u00adly explores one or more of these ele\u00adments let me know. Here are some reflec\u00adtions on it that I have found inter\u00adest\u00ading so far.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/march\/covenant-school-mass-shooting-nashville.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pres\u00adby\u00adter\u00adian School Mourns 6 Dead in Nashville Shoot\u00ading<\/a> (Daniel Sil\u00adli\u00adman and Kate Shell\u00adnutt, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cAt Wood\u00admont Bap\u00adtist, not long after they heard the sirens whir by, pas\u00adtors and staff read reports of a shoot\u00ading at Covenant. When they saw on Twit\u00adter that their church was named as the reuni\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion site, they didn\u2019t ques\u00adtion it\u2014they just put on their nametags, met police in the park\u00ading lot, and pre\u00adpared to open their doors to bus\u00ades of sur\u00adviv\u00ading chil\u00addren and par\u00adents des\u00adper\u00adate to see their kids safe and sound, senior pas\u00adtor Nathan Park\u00ader told CT. The chil\u00addren gath\u00adered in the fel\u00adlow\u00adship hall, where the stu\u00addent min\u00adis\u00adter hand\u00aded out col\u00ador\u00ading sheets and began pro\u00adcess\u00ading the shoot\u00ading with them.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/27\/us\/nashville-shooting-covenant-school.html\" target=\"_blank\">Heav\u00adi\u00adly Armed Assailant Kills Six at Chris\u00adt\u00adian School<\/a> (Emi\u00adly Cochrane, Ben Shpigel, Michael Lev\u00aden\u00adson and Jesus Jim\u00e9nez, New York Times): \u201cChief Drake said that the assailant was \u2018at one point a stu\u00addent\u2019 at the school.\u2026 There was con\u00adfu\u00adsion about the gen\u00adder iden\u00adti\u00adty of the assailant in the imme\u00addi\u00adate after\u00admath of the attack. Chief Drake said the shoot\u00ader iden\u00adti\u00adfied as trans\u00adgen\u00adder. Offi\u00adcials used \u201cshe\u201d and \u201cher\u201d to refer to the shoot\u00ader, but, accord\u00ading to a social media post and a LinkedIn pro\u00adfile, the shoot\u00ader appeared to iden\u00adti\u00adfy as male in recent months.\u2026 Chief Drake said it was too ear\u00adly to dis\u00adcuss a pos\u00adsi\u00adble motive for the shoot\u00ading, though he con\u00adfirmed that the attack was tar\u00adget\u00aded.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2023\/3\/29\/heeding-the-nashville-shooters-own-voice-do-journalists-want-the-manifesto-released\" target=\"_blank\">Heed\u00ading the Nashville shooter\u2019s own voice: Do jour\u00adnal\u00adists want the \u2018man\u00adi\u00adfesto\u2019 released<\/a>? (Ter\u00adry Mat\u00adting\u00adly, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): \u201cUnder nor\u00admal cir\u00adcum\u00adstances, jour\u00adnal\u00adists would be doing every\u00adthing that they can to answer the \u2018why\u2019 ques\u00adtion in this case, includ\u00ading call\u00ading for the release of Hale\u2019s man\u00adi\u00adfesto text and oth\u00ader mate\u00adri\u00adals linked to the attack. But these are not nor\u00admal cir\u00adcum\u00adstances.\u2026 Unless I have missed some\u00adthing, the AP cov\u00ader\u00adage \u2014 the news mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal that will appear in most local news\u00adpa\u00adpers \u2014 have made zero ref\u00ader\u00adences to the shooter\u2019s own social-media mate\u00adri\u00adals. Under nor\u00admal cir\u00adcum\u00adstances, these online sources are one of the first places that reporters raised in the Inter\u00adnet era go for insights into this kind of sto\u00adry.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/blogs\/dispatch\/at-a-loss-for-words\" target=\"_blank\">At a loss for words<\/a> (Joshua Katz, The New Cri\u00adte\u00adri\u00adon): \u201cI am sor\u00adry, there\u00adfore, that <em>The<\/em><em>New York Times<\/em>, in its above-the-fold front-page sto\u00adry yes\u00adter\u00adday, names the shoot\u00ader before the vic\u00adtims.\u2026 Until we know more about the killer, it would be unwise to speak of her motives, though it is obvi\u00adous\u00adly note\u00adwor\u00adthy that a stan\u00addard data\u00adbase of mass shoot\u00adings in the Unit\u00aded States since 1966 does not record a sin\u00adgle female shoot\u00ader at a K\u201312 school. (Bizarrely, the main arti\u00adcle in the <em>Times<\/em> ignores this fact, instead stat\u00ading that the shoot\u00ading was \u2018unusu\u00adal\u2019 because Covenant is a pri\u00advate ele\u00admen\u00adtary school rather than a pub\u00adlic high school.)\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Author sound famil\u00adiar? Katz was a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Prince\u00adton and is now a fel\u00adlow at AEI and he\u2019s been men\u00adtioned in these week\u00adly roundups before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/29\/opinion\/nashville-shooting-prayer.html?unlocked_article_code=BMfk-aKo4--LO0BVdjX3Twki-0QSEQxWROftx7bP_LURUM6Kb8V8QFLWjX-cuJc8DNZfA02x3MhcXozzslp1teiop4ACH0xeMshbRrwQawKmylAyPQLR_pNMQm5A4yqovrOJbVGYQ7Y07bgFJPq9cGLWGymj6BcyrnK2CWnCcDfY04HPcHDI77y4zT7c8A_MhjJtJJ5_L1eXlhw7ekeJEZjacJugpFgN_imsntEjKyRdCAxcUQBaUQwApIkLVeww1c1O2QgZ70kEaqKjoQnHhijkjXUuXEKpZKLkpINHtO0o82ktjZxe_1O8hOXIxI575L7A9fqcXHWr-VgzZ-epG3RM4w&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">In the Face of Tragedy, Peti\u00adtion\u00ading God Is an Act of Faith<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cIt is a ter\u00adri\u00adble sign of our polar\u00adized times that the very con\u00adcept of prayer in the midst of tragedy has itself become con\u00adtentious. \u2018Spare us your prayers,\u2019 some will say. \u2018We demand action.\u2019 But what if peo\u00adple need prayer? What if griev\u00ading neigh\u00adbors are <em>des\u00adper\u00adate<\/em> for prayer?\u2026 For the faith\u00adful believ\u00ader, prayer isn\u2019t a sub\u00adsti\u00adtute for action, it\u2019s a pre\u00adreq\u00adui\u00adsite for action. It grounds us before we move to serve oth\u00aders. It grounds us before we speak in the pub\u00adlic square.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I\u2019ve unlocked the pay\u00adwall on this one. Well worth your time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/roddreher.substack.com\/p\/nashvilles-satanic-theophany?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville\u2019s Satan\u00adic Theo\u00adphany<\/a> (Rod Dreher, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cLis\u00adten to me: this has been the strat\u00ade\u00adgy of LGBT advo\u00adcates for more than twen\u00adty years now: con\u00advince the normies that if they don\u2019t give the activists what they want, that they will have blood on their hands. At the turn of the cen\u00adtu\u00adry, activists con\u00advinced schools that in order to com\u00adbat bul\u00adly\u00ading \u2014 a wor\u00adthy endeav\u00ador \u2014 they had to teach gay ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy. You might have thought, \u2018Real\u00adly? Why isn\u2019t it enough to teach that bul\u00adly\u00ading is wrong, and to pun\u00adish bul\u00adlies?\u2019 The ques\u00adtion itself reveals the real moti\u00adva\u00adtion behind the cam\u00adpaign.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dreher recent\u00adly moved entire\u00adly to Sub\u00adstack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not about the shoot\u00ading at all, but rel\u00ade\u00advant to think\u00ading about issues sur\u00adround\u00ading trans\u00adgen\u00adder ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/understanding-the-sex-binary\" target=\"_blank\">Under\u00adstand\u00ading the Sex Bina\u00adry<\/a> (Col\u00adin Wright, City Jour\u00adnal): \u201cWhen biol\u00ado\u00adgists claim that \u2018sex is bina\u00adry,\u2019 they mean some\u00adthing straight\u00adfor\u00adward: <em>there are only two sex\u00ades<\/em>. This state\u00adment is true because an individual\u2019s sex is defined by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) their pri\u00adma\u00adry repro\u00adduc\u00adtive organs (i.e., gonads) are orga\u00adnized, through devel\u00adop\u00adment, to pro\u00adduce. Males have pri\u00adma\u00adry repro\u00adduc\u00adtive organs orga\u00adnized around the pro\u00adduc\u00adtion of sperm; females, ova. Because there is no third gamete type, there are only two sex\u00ades that a per\u00adson can be. Sex is there\u00adfore bina\u00adry.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also not about this shoot\u00ading but con\u00adcern\u00ading guns in gen\u00ader\u00adal, the most infor\u00adma\u00adtive thing I\u2019ve seen is this debate between two pas\u00adtors on guns that I shared back in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/05\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-48\">vol\u00adume 48<\/a> (you have to click through to see it since it\u2019s mul\u00adti\u00adple links). Many more relat\u00aded arti\u00adcles I\u2019ve shared through the years can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/tag\/guns\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/tag\/guns\">https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/tag\/guns<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alexmurrell.co.uk\/articles\/the-age-of-average\" target=\"_blank\">The age of aver\u00adage<\/a> (Alex Mur\u00adrell, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cThe inte\u00adri\u00adors of our homes, cof\u00adfee shops and restau\u00adrants all look the same. The build\u00adings where we live and work all look the same. The cars we dri\u00adve, their colours and their logos all look the same. The way we look and the way we dress all looks the same. Our movies, books and video games all look the same. And the brands we buy, their adverts, iden\u00adti\u00adties and taglines all look the same. But it doesn\u2019t end there. In the age of aver\u00adage, homo\u00adgene\u00adity can be found in an almost indef\u00adi\u00adnite num\u00adber of domains. The Insta\u00adgram pic\u00adtures we post, the tweets we read, the TV we watch, the app icons we click, the sky\u00adlines we see, the web\u00adsites we vis\u00adit and the illus\u00adtra\u00adtions which adorn them all look the same. The list goes on, and on, and on.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. The accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading pho\u00adtos are strik\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2023\/04\/03\/how-christian-is-christian-nationalism\" target=\"_blank\">How Chris\u00adt\u00adian Is Chris\u00adt\u00adian Nation\u00adal\u00adism?<\/a> (Kele\u00adfa San\u00adneh, The New York\u00ader): \u201cIf Amer\u00adi\u00adca was once bet\u00adter than it is now, why did our Chris\u00adt\u00adian fore\u00adbears allow it to get worse? In answer\u00ading this ques\u00adtion, Wolfe some\u00adtimes sounds more like a crit\u00adic of the faith than a defend\u00ader of it.\u2026 Wolfe thinks that there is some\u00adthing \u2018weird\u2019 about the way in which the U.S. and oth\u00ader West\u00adern nations reject eth\u00adnic chauvinism\u2014officially, anyway\u2014in favor of an \u2018ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy of uni\u00adver\u00adsal\u00adi\u00adty.\u2019 But this weird uni\u00adver\u00adsal\u00adi\u00adty is part of what sets Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty apart from most oth\u00ader creeds.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An insight\u00adful arti\u00adcle in the New York\u00ader. The author is the son of a famous the\u00adolo\u00adgian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/hollywoods-great-awakening?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood\u2019s Great Awak\u00aden\u00ading<\/a> (Olivia Rein\u00adgold, The Free Press): \u201cMade by Chris\u00adt\u00adian pro\u00adduc\u00adtion house King\u00addom Sto\u00adry Com\u00adpa\u00adny and backed by mega dis\u00adtrib\u00adu\u00adtor Lion\u00ads\u00adgate, [Jesus Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion] earned back its $15 mil\u00adlion bud\u00adget the week\u00adend it opened, when crit\u00adics pre\u00addict\u00aded it would gross clos\u00ader to $6 or $7 mil\u00adlion. That\u2019s a tri\u00adumphant per\u00adfor\u00admance com\u00adpared to the week\u00adend debuts of recent block\u00adbusters, like <em>65<\/em>, a sci-fi flick with a $91 mil\u00adlion bud\u00adget that made just $12.3 mil\u00adlion, and M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s thriller <em>Knock at the Cab\u00adin<\/em>, which brought in $14.1 mil\u00adlion. Since its release on Feb\u00adru\u00adary 24, <em>Jesus Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/em> has grossed $49 mil\u00adlion in tick\u00adet sales\u2014besting many of this year\u2019s Oscar nom\u00adi\u00adnees com\u00adbined at U.S. box offices.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some AI-relat\u00aded per\u00adspec\u00adtives\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2023\/03\/existential-risk-and-the-turn-in-human-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Exis\u00adten\u00adtial risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human his\u00adto\u00adry<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cI am remind\u00aded of the advent of the print\u00ading press, after Guten\u00adberg. Of course the press brought an immense amount of good, enabling the sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic and indus\u00adtri\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions, among many oth\u00ader ben\u00ade\u00adfits. But it also cre\u00adat\u00aded writ\u00adings by Lenin, Hitler, and Mao\u2019s Red Book. It is a moot point whether you can \u2018blame\u2019 those on the print\u00ading press, nonethe\u00adless the press brought (in com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion with some oth\u00ader inno\u00adva\u00adtions) a remark\u00adable amount of true, mov\u00ading his\u00adto\u00adry. How about the Wars of Reli\u00adgion and the bloody 17th cen\u00adtu\u00adry to boot? Still, if you were redo\u00ading world his\u00adto\u00adry you would take the print\u00ading press in a heart\u00adbeat. Who needs pover\u00adty, squalor, and recur\u00adrences of Ghenghis Khan-like fig\u00adures?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thezvi.substack.com\/p\/response-to-tyler-cowens-existential?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Response to Tyler Cowen\u2019s Exis\u00adten\u00adtial risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human his\u00adto\u00adry<\/a> (Zvi Mow\u00adshowitz, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIf you cre\u00adate some\u00adthing with supe\u00adri\u00ador intel\u00adli\u00adgence, that oper\u00adates at faster speed, that can make copies of itself, what hap\u00adpens <em>by default? <\/em>That new source of intel\u00adli\u00adgence will rapid\u00adly gain con\u00adtrol of the future. It is <em>very, very dif\u00adfi\u00adcult <\/em>to pre\u00advent this from hap\u00adpen\u00ading even under ide\u00adal cir\u00adcum\u00adstances.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A rebut\u00adtal to the Cowen piece. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2023\/03\/thursday-assorted-links-398.html\">Cowen defends his views<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): he is defend\u00ading his views against a Scott Alexan\u00adder piece which I did\u00adn\u2019t find as inter\u00adest\u00ading as the Mow\u00adshowitz piece I linked above. The rejoin\u00adder is broad enough to be use\u00adful on its own.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is inter\u00adest\u00ading to think about AI risk as a Chris\u00adt\u00adian who believes in demons which seem to be smarter than humans and who are described sev\u00ader\u00adal times in the Bible as run\u00adning sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant parts of this world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/reading_room\/free-will-is-real\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free Will Is Real<\/a> (Stu\u00adart T. Doyle, Skep\u00adtic): \u201cHere I will try to con\u00advince you that free will is real and not an illu\u00adsion. I\u2019ll argue that far from being exem\u00adplars of ratio\u00adnal\u00adi\u00adty and skep\u00adti\u00adcism, the main argu\u00adments against free will make unjus\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adable log\u00adi\u00adcal leaps and are na\u00efve in the light of cut\u00adting-edge sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic findings.Throughout the philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, resolv\u00ading the ques\u00adtion of whether or not we have free will has often revolved around two cri\u00adte\u00adria for free will: (1) We must be the true sources of our own actions. (2) We must have the abil\u00adi\u00adty to do oth\u00ader\u00adwise. I argue that humans meet both cri\u00adte\u00adria through two con\u00adcepts: scale and unde\u00adcid\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/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=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YourCalvinist\/status\/1639252677530996738\" target=\"_blank\">If The Princess Bride Char\u00adac\u00adters Were Church\u00ades<\/a> (Twit\u00adter video)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2755\/\" target=\"_blank\">Effect Size<\/a> (xckd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lzXD4A0V4c4\" target=\"_blank\">Ama\u00adzon\u2019s Alexa Is A Man<\/a> (Dry Bar Com\u00ade\u00addy, YouTube): one minute<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/turing-test?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Tur\u00ading Test<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cThe year is 2028, and this is Tur\u00ading Test!, the game show that sep\u00ada\u00adrates man from machine! Our star tonight is Dr. Andrea Mann, a gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtive lin\u00adguist at Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia, Berke\u00adley. She\u2019ll face five hid\u00adden con\u00adtes\u00adtants, code-named Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spir\u00adit. One will be a human telling the truth about their human\u00adi\u00adty. One will be a human pre\u00adtend\u00ading to be an AI. One will be an AI telling the truth about their arti\u00adfi\u00adcial\u00adi\u00adty. One will be an AI pre\u00adtend\u00ading to be human. And one will be a total wild card. Dr. Mann, you have one hour, start\u00ading now.<em>\u201d<\/em> This is a fun read.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2756\/\" target=\"_blank\">Qual\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7aEqxAxwRuw&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">The Biggest Prob\u00adlem With Dat\u00ading A Reli\u00adgious Per\u00adson<\/a> (Dry Bar Com\u00ade\u00addy, YouTube): five min\u00adutes. Uneven but quite fun\u00adny at times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KOOP7-qeA5U\" target=\"_blank\">Can Preg\u00adnant Pussy\u00adcat Doll Kim\u00adber\u00adly Wyatt Do The Splits<\/a>? (Would I Lie To You?, YouTube): five min\u00adutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sIgaqKAaUoM\" target=\"_blank\">3 Lies to Escape a South\u00adern Good\u00adbye<\/a> (Matt Mitchell, YouTube): three and a half min\u00adutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicscientists.org\/idea\/on-what-atheists-say-there-is\" target=\"_blank\">On What Athe\u00adists Say There Is<\/a> (M. Antho\u00adny Mills, Soci\u00adety of Catholic Sci\u00aden\u00adtists): \u201cAccord\u00ading to the athe\u00adist, the theist\u2019s error is believ\u00ading in one too many things. Yet, for the the\u00adist, the dis\u00adagree\u00adment is not about the exis\u00adtence of one par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar thing, but \u2018about every\u00adthing,\u2019 as Mac\u00adIn\u00adtyre puts it.\u201d The begin\u00adning and end are excel\u00adlent. The mid\u00addle mud\u00addles unless you have very pre\u00adcise philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal inter\u00adests. The author has a Ph.D. in phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy. From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/11\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-275\" target=\"_blank\">vol\u00adume 275<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded 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 Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. 396 is appar\u00adent\u00adly the num\u00adber of 3x3 slid\u00ading puz\u00adzle posi\u00adtions that require exact\u00adly 11 moves to solve start\u00ading \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/03\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-396\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 396\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Lamentable news this week, along with several topics that are merely intellectually interesting.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[219,140,195,161,114,160,113],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-global-christianity","tag-hollywood","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-lgbtq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1RB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7170,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}