{"id":7230,"date":"2023-07-07T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T02:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2023-07-07T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T02:04:54","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/07\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-410","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 410"},"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\">This is vol\u00adume 410, which hap\u00adpens to be <a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/seo\/glossary\/410-gone\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/seo\/glossary\/410-gone\">the HTTP sta\u00adtus code for a resource being per\u00adma\u00adnent\u00adly gone<\/a>.<\/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.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/07\/05\/ai-apocalypse-college-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">How elite schools like Stan\u00adford became fix\u00adat\u00aded on the AI apoc\u00ada\u00adlypse<\/a> (Nitasha Tiku, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cStu\u00addents who join the AI safe\u00adty com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty some\u00adtimes get more than free boba. Just as EA con\u00adfer\u00adences once meant trav\u00adel\u00ading the world and hav\u00ading one-on-one meet\u00adings with wealthy, influ\u00aden\u00adtial donors, Open Philanthropy\u2019s new uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty fel\u00adlow\u00adship offers a hefty direct deposit: under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adate lead\u00aders receive as much as $80,000 a year, plus $14,500 for health insur\u00adance, and up to $100,000 a year to cov\u00ader group expens\u00ades.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bro \u2014 what? Stan\u00adford won\u2019t even let us pay for a guest speak\u00ader with out\u00adside funds. It\u2019s not clear that the under\u00adgrad stu\u00addents lead\u00aders at Stan\u00adford are mak\u00ading $80k a year, but it\u2019s not clear that they\u2019re not, either. Some stu\u00addent some\u00adwhere is, and that\u2019s wild.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/wheres-waldo-how-to-prove-you-found-him-without-revealing-where-he-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Where\u2019s Wal\u00addo? How to Math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly Prove You Found Him With\u00adout Reveal\u00ading Where He Is<\/a> (Jack Murtagh, Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Amer\u00adi\u00adcan):&nbsp; \u201cAmaz\u00ading\u00adly, every claim that I can prove to you with a tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal proof can also be proved in zero knowl\u00adedge. Take your favorite result in math, and you could in prin\u00adci\u00adple prove it to a friend while show\u00ading them bup\u00adkes about how it works. This is a pro\u00adfound dis\u00adcov\u00adery about the nature of proof itself. Cer\u00adtain\u00adty does not require under\u00adstand\u00ading.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zero-knowl\u00adedge proofs are wild. That last sen\u00adtence \u201ccer\u00adtain\u00adty does not require under\u00adstand\u00ading\u201d helped me real\u00adize that there are inter\u00adest\u00ading par\u00adal\u00adlels to how peo\u00adple come to faith.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is usu\u00adal\u00adly an inter\u00adac\u00adtive process. God begins to draw some\u00adone repeat\u00aded\u00adly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a prob\u00ada\u00adbilis\u00adtic process. Things keep hap\u00adpen\u00ading to the soon-to-be con\u00advert that don\u2019t make sense. I mean, sure they could have hap\u00adpened by chance because any\u00adthing can hap\u00adpen by chance. But they keep hap\u00adpen\u00ading in a way that is exceed\u00ading\u00adly improb\u00ada\u00adble.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The new con\u00advert\u2019s con\u00adfi\u00addence in God far exceeds their under\u00adstand\u00ading of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God \u2014 the orig\u00adi\u00adnal zero-knowl\u00adedge prover. To wax Aris\u00adtotelian, He is the unproved prover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/protectdemocracy.org\/work\/dousa-case-authoritarian-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pas\u00adtor Dou\u0161a\u2019s case shows the U.S. is not immune to author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan crack\u00addowns on dis\u00adsent<\/a> (Scott Welder, Pro\u00adtect Democ\u00adra\u00adcy): \u201c\u2026DHS retal\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded against Pas\u00adtor Dou\u0161a for min\u00adis\u00adter\u00ading to migrants and refugees in Mex\u00adi\u00adco in Decem\u00adber 2018 by restrict\u00ading her Trust\u00aded Trav\u00adel\u00ader priv\u00adi\u00adleges; sub\u00adject\u00ading her to extra screen\u00ading at the south\u00adern bor\u00adder; and telling Mex\u00adi\u00adcan author\u00adi\u00adties, false\u00adly, that there was \u2018a great pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty\u2019 that she did not have \u2018ade\u00adquate doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion to be in Mex\u00adi\u00adco\u2019 and sug\u00adgest\u00ading that the Mex\u00adi\u00adcan gov\u00adern\u00adment \u2018deny [her] entry to Mex\u00adi\u00adco\u2019 and \u2018send [her] back to the Unit\u00aded States.\u2019 A CBP offi\u00adcial lat\u00ader admit\u00adted that the request to Mex\u00adi\u00adcan author\u00adi\u00adties was \u2018cre\u00adative writ\u00ading,\u2019 \u2018with\u00adout any basis.\u2019 But DHS\u2019s actions made it more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult for Pas\u00adtor Dou\u0161a to con\u00adtin\u00adue her min\u00adistry, even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly caus\u00ading her to lim\u00adit her activ\u00adi\u00adties in the Unit\u00aded States and to end her min\u00adistry in Mex\u00adi\u00adco alto\u00adgeth\u00ader.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On some of the recent Supreme Court deci\u00adsions:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/why-the-champions-of-affirmative-action-had-to-leave-asian-americans-behind\" target=\"_blank\">Why the Cham\u00adpi\u00adons of Affir\u00adma\u00adtive Action Had to Leave Asian Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Behind<\/a> (Jay Caspi\u00adan Kang, The New York\u00ader): \u201cAsian Amer\u00adi\u00adcans, the group whom the suit was sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly about, have been odd\u00adly absent from the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions that have fol\u00adlowed the rul\u00ading. The repet\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adness of the affir\u00adma\u00adtive-action debate has come about, in large part, because both the courts and the media have most\u00adly ignored the Asian Amer\u00adi\u00adcan plain\u00adtiffs and cho\u00adsen, instead, to relit\u00adi\u00adgate the same argu\u00adments about mer\u00adit, white suprema\u00adcy, and priv\u00adi\u00adlege. Dur\u00ading the five years I spent cov\u00ader\u00ading this case, the com\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtors defend\u00ading affir\u00adma\u00adtive action almost nev\u00ader dis\u00adproved the cen\u00adtral claim that dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion was tak\u00ading place against Asian Amer\u00adi\u00adcans, even as they dis\u00admissed the plain\u00adtiffs as pawns who had been duped by a con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive legal activist. They almost always redi\u00adrect\u00aded the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion to some\u00adthing else\u2014often lega\u00adcy admis\u00adsions.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/04\/opinion\/race-academia-preferences.html\" target=\"_blank\">On Race and Acad\u00ade\u00admia<\/a> (John McWhort\u00ader, New York Times): \u201cAs an aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic who is also Black, I have seen up close, over decades, what it means to take race into account. I talked about some of these expe\u00adri\u00adences in inter\u00adviews and in a book I wrote in 2000, but I\u2019ve nev\u00ader shared them in an arti\u00adcle like this one. The respons\u00ades I\u2019ve seen to the Supreme Court\u2019s deci\u00adsion move me to ven\u00adture it. The cul\u00adture that a pol\u00adi\u00adcy helps put into place can be as impor\u00adtant as the pol\u00adi\u00adcy itself. And in my life\u00adtime, racial pref\u00ader\u00adences in acad\u00ade\u00admia \u2014 not mere\u00adly when it comes to under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adate admis\u00adsions but also mov\u00ading on to grad school and job appli\u00adca\u00adtions and teach\u00ading careers \u2014 have been not only a set of for\u00admal and infor\u00admal poli\u00adcies but also the grounds for a cul\u00adture of per\u00adcep\u00adtions and assump\u00adtions.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is a very raw and vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble piece. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. His Ph.D. is from Stan\u00adford.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2023\/7\/4\/covering-the-303-creative-decision-why-do-reporters-keep-ignoring-the-fine-print\" target=\"_blank\">Cov\u00ader\u00ading the 303 Cre\u00adative deci\u00adsion: Why do reporters keep ignor\u00ading the fine print<\/a>? (Julia Duin, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): \u201cI wish reporters would be hon\u00adest in admit\u00adting that much of the anger expressed over the ver\u00addict stems from how Lorie Smith out\u00adwit\u00adted her oppo\u00adnents by fil\u00ading suit first, rather than endur\u00ading&nbsp; a string of law\u00adsuits like what Jack Phillips is hav\u00ading to endure. I\u2019m look\u00ading for that inves\u00adtiga\u00adtive piece on the Col\u00adorado Civ\u00adil Rights Com\u00admis\u00adsion that, after hav\u00ading been reproved twice now by the Supreme Court, hasn\u2019t changed its ways at all. Where is that <em>New York\u00ader<\/em> take-out on Autumn Scar\u00addi\u00adna, the trans\u00adgen\u00adder attor\u00adney whose per\u00adson\u00adal vendet\u00adta against Phillips just nev\u00ader ends because the courts have giv\u00aden her a free pass? I\u2019m wait\u00ading.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearreligion.org\/articles\/2023\/07\/03\/my_win_at_the_supreme_court_is_a_win_for_all_americans_963404.html\" target=\"_blank\">My Win at the Supreme Court Is a Win for All Amer\u00adi\u00adcans<\/a> (Lorie Smith, Real Clear Reli\u00adgion): \u201cI can\u2019t say every\u00adthing every\u00adone wants me to. I can\u2019t pre\u00adtend to agree with every idea pre\u00adsent\u00aded to me. None of us can. None of us should have to. Each of us should be free to pur\u00adsue truth, hold to our faith, respect\u00adful\u00adly speak our beliefs, and thought\u00adful\u00adly live them out day by day, with\u00adout the gov\u00adern\u00adment telling us what to believe or say. If that\u2019s the free\u00addom you want \u2013 for your\u00adself, for your fam\u00adi\u00adly and friends, for all of those who share your ideas and con\u00advic\u00adtions \u2013 then my vic\u00adto\u00adry is a vic\u00adto\u00adry for you. What\u00adev\u00ader you may think of me and my beliefs, we\u2019re all freer today than we were yes\u00adter\u00adday. I hope you find that cause for cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is the vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adous plain\u00adtiff in the gay wed\u00adding web\u00adsite case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/opinions\/the-states-authority-does-not-extend-to-the-human-mind-1688141801\" target=\"_blank\">The state\u2019s author\u00adi\u00adty does not extend to the human mind<\/a> (Kris\u00adten Wag\u00adgoner, World): \u201cThe deci\u00adsion means that gov\u00adern\u00adment offi\u00adcials can\u00adnot mis\u00aduse the law to com\u00adpel speech or exclude from the mar\u00adket\u00adplace peo\u00adple whose beliefs it dislikes.That\u2019s a win for all Americans\u2014whether one shares Lorie\u2019s beliefs or holds dif\u00adfer\u00adent beliefs. Each of us has the right to decide for our\u00adselves what mes\u00adsages we will communicate\u2014in our words, in our art, in our voice\u2014without inter\u00adfer\u00adence from the gov\u00adern\u00adment. The state\u2019s author\u00adi\u00adty does not extend to the human mind.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is the lawyer who argued this case before the Supreme Court. She is an Assem\u00adblies of God layper\u00adson, btw.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/christians-more-like-jesus-or-pharisees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris\u00adtians: More Like Jesus or Phar\u00adisees?<\/a> (Bar\u00adna Research Group): \u201cIn this nation\u00adwide study of self-iden\u00adti\u00adfied Chris\u00adtians, the goal was to deter\u00admine whether Chris\u00adtians have the actions and atti\u00adtude of Jesus as they inter\u00adact with oth\u00aders or if they are more akin to the beliefs and behav\u00adiors of Phar\u00adisees, the self-right\u00adeous sect of reli\u00adgious lead\u00aders described in the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment.\u2026 The find\u00adings reveal that most self-iden\u00adti\u00adfied Chris\u00adtians in the U.S. are char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by hav\u00ading the atti\u00adtudes and actions researchers iden\u00adti\u00adfied as Phar\u00adi\u00adsaical. Just over half of the nation\u2019s Christians\u2014using the broad\u00adest def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion of those who call them\u00adselves Christians\u2014qualify for this cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry (51%). They tend to have atti\u00adtudes and actions that are char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by self-right\u00adeous\u00adness.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This research is a decade old, but quite inter\u00adest\u00ading. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I do have some reser\u00adva\u00adtions about the method\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy. Some of the ques\u00adtions are just wrong. For exam\u00adple, cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adriz\u00ading \u201cI lis\u00adten to oth\u00aders to learn their sto\u00adry before telling them about my faith\u201d being Christ\u00adlike rather than Phar\u00adi\u00adsaical isn\u2019t real\u00adly a Bib\u00adli\u00adcal stance, it\u2019s just a per\u00adson\u00adal opin\u00adion. It may be a shrewd strat\u00ade\u00adgy and over\u00adall com\u00admend\u00adable, but I don\u2019t see Jesus lis\u00adten\u00ading to a lot of sto\u00adries in the Bible. It\u2019s a poor\u00adly cho\u00adsen ques\u00adtion for this scale. Quib\u00adbles like that aside, I think the over\u00adall vibe prob\u00ada\u00adbly sol\u00adid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2023\/07\/06\/religion-spirituality-affect-health-immune-system\/70383162007\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liv\u00ading on a prayer? How attend\u00ading wor\u00adship can improve your phys\u00adi\u00adcal and men\u00adtal health<\/a>. (Phil McGraw and John White, USA Today): \u201cDespite the proven health ben\u00ade\u00adfits, reli\u00adgios\u00adi\u00adty is on the decline in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. The fastest-grow\u00ading reli\u00adgious seg\u00adment of the U.S. pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion is now \u2018nones\u2019 \u00e2\u02c6\u2019 those who pro\u00adfess no reli\u00adgion. We\u2019re not here to evan\u00adge\u00adlize, but as a doc\u00adtor and a men\u00adtal health pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal, it\u2019s impor\u00adtant to note that a decline of reli\u00adgion and spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty seems to be asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with poten\u00adtial\u00adly neg\u00ada\u00adtive health effects.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I love that the authors are Dr. Phil and the chief med\u00adical offi\u00adcer at Web\u00adMD. To the aver\u00adage Amer\u00adi\u00adcan they\u2019ve prob\u00ada\u00adbly got more cred\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty than any med\u00adical asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion or even the NIH, FDA, and CDC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/greatwork.html\" target=\"_blank\">How to Do Great Work<\/a> (Paul Gra\u00adham, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cFour steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the fron\u00adtier, notice gaps, explore promis\u00ading ones. This is how prac\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly every\u00adone who\u2019s done great work has done it, from painters to physi\u00adcists.\u2026 What should you do if you\u2019re young and ambi\u00adtious but don\u2019t know what to work on? What you should not do is drift along pas\u00adsive\u00adly, assum\u00ading the prob\u00adlem will solve itself. You need to take action. But there is no sys\u00adtem\u00adat\u00adic pro\u00adce\u00addure you can fol\u00adlow. When you read biogra\u00adphies of peo\u00adple who\u2019ve done great work, it\u2019s remark\u00adable how much luck is involved. They dis\u00adcov\u00ader what to work on as a result of a chance meet\u00ading, or by read\u00ading a book they hap\u00adpen to pick up. So you need to make your\u00adself a big tar\u00adget for luck, and the way to do that is to be curi\u00adous. Try lots of things, meet lots of peo\u00adple, read lots of books, ask lots of ques\u00adtions.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is super-long but worth\u00adwhile. He ram\u00adbles and is mis\u00adtak\u00aden at points, but his core insights are sol\u00adid and impor\u00adtant.<\/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\/congratulations-study-finds-you-chose-the-only-100-correct-branch-of-christianity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions! Study Finds You Chose The Only 100% Cor\u00adrect Branch Of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/07\/07\" target=\"_blank\">Unin\u00adformed<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/07\/01\" target=\"_blank\">Two Kinds Of Peo\u00adple<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/people-hire-phone-bots-to-torture-telemarketers-2dbb8457?mod=hp_featst_pos3\" target=\"_blank\">Peo\u00adple Hire Phone Bots to Tor\u00adture Tele\u00admar\u00adketers<\/a> (Robert McMil\u00adlan, Wall Street Jour\u00adnal): \u201cHe has sev\u00ader\u00adal thou\u00adsand cus\u00adtomers pay\u00ading $24.99 a year for use of his call-deflec\u00adtion sys\u00adtem, called Jol\u00adly Roger. The sub\u00adscrip\u00adtion ser\u00advice gives peo\u00adple the choice of White\u00adbeard or oth\u00ader dig\u00adi\u00adtal per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adties, includ\u00ading Salty Sal\u00adly, the over\u00adwhelmed moth\u00ader, and the eas\u00adi\u00adly dis\u00adtract\u00aded Whiskey Jack. After answer\u00ading the phone, Jol\u00adly Roger keeps callers engaged with pre\u00adset expres\u00adsions from chat\u00adbots, such as \u2018There\u2019s a bee on my arm, but keep talk\u00ading.\u2019 Chat\u00adbots also grunt or say \u2018uh-huh\u2019 to keep things going. When Ope\u00adnAI released its Chat\u00adG\u00adPT soft\u00adware last year, Ander\u00adson saw right away how it could breathe new life into his time-wast\u00ading bots.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is glo\u00adri\u00adous.&nbsp; One of my favorite uses of AI to date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/07\/06\" target=\"_blank\">The Gold\u00aden Rule<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/pig\" target=\"_blank\">How Shop\u00adpers Think<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NOCsdhzo6Jg&amp;t=80s\" target=\"_blank\">How They Fool Ya (live) | Math par\u00ado\u00addy of Hal\u00adlelu\u00adjah<\/a> (3Blue1Brown, YouTube): four min\u00adutes of peak nerd (the song starts at 1:20, I think I linked direct\u00adly there)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3G1KBu6H6BM\" target=\"_blank\">Drag\u00adon Boat Show with 1500 drones in Shen\u00adzhen, Chi\u00adna<\/a> (YouTube): twen\u00adty beau\u00adti\u00adful sec\u00adonds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DpefYPLH67A\" target=\"_blank\">HIDARI (Pilot Film) \u2014 The Stop-Motion Samu\u00adrai Film<\/a> (YouTube): four and a half min\u00adutes of stel\u00adlar stop-motion ani\u00adma\u00adtion<\/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.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/01\/04\/what-thomas-jefferson-could-never-understand-about-jesus\/amp\" target=\"_blank\">What Thomas Jef\u00adfer\u00adson Could Nev\u00ader Under\u00adstand About Jesus<\/a> (Vin\u00adson Cun\u00adning\u00adham, New York\u00ader): \u201cIn the years before eman\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion, the best argu\u00adments against slav\u00adery were also argu\u00adments about God.\u2026 Jefferson\u2019s Jesus is an admirable sage, fit bed\u00adtime read\u00ading for seek\u00aders of wis\u00addom. But those who were weak, or suf\u00adfer\u00ading, or in urgent trou\u00adble, would have to look else\u00adwhere.\u201d This is quite an arti\u00adcle. From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/01\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-286\" target=\"_blank\">vol\u00adume 286<\/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. This is vol\u00adume 410, which hap\u00adpens to be the HTTP sta\u00adtus code for a resource being per\u00adma\u00adnent\u00adly gone. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/07\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-410\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 410\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":"Students get paid $80k a year, zero-knowledge proofs as a parallel to religious faith, and the health benefits of church.","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":[131,124,219,240,160,308,116,138,135,247],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-elite-colleges","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-mathematics","tag-race","tag-religious-freedom","tag-stanford","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1SC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","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=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7232,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}