{"id":7483,"date":"2024-07-26T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2024-07-26T19:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:11:19","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/07\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-463","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 463"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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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

This is vol\u00adume 463, a prime num\u00adber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Why your smart\u00adphone might be stop\u00adping you from fol\u00adlow\u00ading Jesus<\/a> (Mar\u00adtin Saun\u00adders, Pre\u00admiere Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty): \u201c[Haidt] argues that smart\u00adphones actu\u00adal\u00adly dri\u00adve spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal degra\u00adda\u00adtion: \u2018[social media] trains peo\u00adple to think in ways that are exact\u00adly con\u00adtrary to the world\u2019s wis\u00addom tra\u00addi\u00adtions: Think about your\u00adselves first; be mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adis\u00adtic, judge\u00admen\u00adtal, boast\u00adful, and pet\u00adty; seek glo\u00adry as quan\u00adti\u00adfied by likes and fol\u00adlow\u00aders.\u2019\u2026 <\/em>our dig\u00adi\u00adtal cul\u00adture isn\u2019t neu\u00adtral; it\u2019s offer\u00ading a kind of anti-dis\u00adci\u00adple\u00adship.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Move Over, Math\u00ade\u00admati\u00adcians, Here Comes AlphaProof<\/a> (Siob\u00adhan Roberts, New York Times): \u201cA pair of Google Deep\u00adMind mod\u00adels tried their luck with the prob\u00adlem set in the 2024 Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal Olympiad, or I.M.O., held from July 11 to July 22 about 100 miles west of Lon\u00addon at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Bath. The event is said to be the pre\u00admier math com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion for the world\u2019s \u2018bright\u00adest math\u00adletes,\u2019 accord\u00ading to a pro\u00admo\u00adtion\u00adal post on social media. The human prob\u00adlem-solvers \u2014 609 high school stu\u00addents from 108 coun\u00adtries \u2014 won 58 gold medals, 123 sil\u00adver and 145 bronze. The A.I. per\u00adformed at the lev\u00adel of a sil\u00adver medal\u00adist, solv\u00ading four out of six prob\u00adlems for a total of 28 points. It was the first time that A.I. has achieved a medal-wor\u00adthy per\u00adfor\u00admance on an Olympiad\u2019s prob\u00adlems.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Stand\u00ading Out, Craft\u00ading Hooks, and Acci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly Reveal\u00ading Every\u00adthing That\u2019s Wrong With You<\/a> (Max Nussen\u00adbaum, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t think that people\u2019s nat\u00adur\u00adal instinct would be to reveal their full litany of psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues in their pro\u00adfiles, but it actu\u00adal\u00adly is. They just don\u2019t real\u00adize that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing.\u201d About a year old.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Online opt-in polls can pro\u00adduce mis\u00adlead\u00ading results, espe\u00adcial\u00adly for young peo\u00adple and His\u00adpan\u00adic adults<\/a> (Andrew Mer\u00adcer, Court\u00adney Kennedy & Scott Keeter, Pew Research): \u201c\u2026sev\u00ader\u00adal recent stud\u00adies have doc\u00adu\u00adment\u00aded large errors in online opt-in sur\u00adveys due to the pres\u00adence of so-called \u2018bogus respon\u00addents.\u2019 These respon\u00addents do not answer ques\u00adtions sin\u00adcere\u00adly; instead, they attempt to com\u00adplete sur\u00adveys with as lit\u00adtle effort as pos\u00adsi\u00adble to earn mon\u00adey or oth\u00ader rewards. Stud\u00adies have shown that bogus respon\u00addents can cause opt-in sur\u00adveys to over\u00ades\u00adti\u00admate rare atti\u00adtudes and behav\u00adiors, such as ingest\u00ading bleach to pro\u00adtect against COVID-19, belief in con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcies like Piz\u00adza\u00adgate or sup\u00adport for polit\u00adi\u00adcal vio\u00adlence.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Patron\u00adage vs. Con\u00adstituent Par\u00adties (Or Why Repub\u00adli\u00adcan Par\u00adty Lead\u00aders Mat\u00adter More Than Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Ones)<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c\u2026many dis\u00adcus\u00adsions of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pol\u00adi\u00adtics assume that that the struc\u00adtures and oper\u00ada\u00adtional norms of the two par\u00adties are the same. If these par\u00adty dif\u00adfer\u00adences were more wide\u00adly rec\u00adog\u00adnized, I sus\u00adpect we would see few\u00ader evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals frus\u00adtrat\u00aded with their lim\u00adit\u00aded influ\u00adence over the GOP par\u00adty plat\u00adform, few\u00ader jour\u00adnal\u00adists shocked with J.D. Vance\u2019s jour\u00adney from nev\u00ader-Trump land to MAGA-max\u00adi\u00admal\u00adism, and greater alarm among cen\u00adtrist Democ\u00adrats about the longer-term influ\u00adence that the Pales\u00adtine protests will have on the con\u00adtours of their coali\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Must Stop Their Pref\u00ader\u00aden\u00adtial Treat\u00adment of the Left<\/a> (James R. Wood, First Things): \u201cToday, cen\u00adtrists and those on the right are more fer\u00adtile soil, I believe, because they are more open to real\u00adi\u00adty. They rec\u00adog\u00adnize that the cul\u00adtur\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adar\u00adies\u2019 projects to rewrite real\u00adi\u00adty are destroy\u00ading civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion. These refugees crave clar\u00adi\u00adty about basic moral real\u00adi\u00adties because of how much con\u00adfu\u00adsion the neg\u00ada\u00adtive world has pro\u00adduced. They are look\u00ading for voic\u00ades who stand up to the civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion\u00adal destroyers\u2014maybe even voic\u00ades who bold\u00adly pro\u00adclaim super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal truths.Like the \u2018god-fear\u00aders\u2019 that ear\u00adly church mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies often tar\u00adget\u00aded, we today need to con\u00adsid\u00ader the \u2018real\u00adi\u00adty-respecters\u2019 in our mis\u00adsion.\u201d\n