{"id":7504,"date":"2024-08-23T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T22:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T22:40:42","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/08\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-467","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 467"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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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 way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is volume 467, a number which has strictly increasing digits when written normally as well as when written in bases 7 (12357<\/sub>) and 9 (5689<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Colleges Can\u2019t Say They Weren\u2019t Warned<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cIn the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, a number of universities were taken by surprise by the sheer sustained disruption and by the antisemitic animosity on their campuses. They struggled to respond effectively. As the war continues \u2014 and as the conflict with Hezbollah escalates on Israel\u2019s northern border \u2014 universities can no longer claim to be surprised. They know what might happen this school year, and this knowledge has legal significance. If they fail to protect the free speech of students or to protect students from antisemitic or Islamophobic harassment, there will be consequences.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Stranded in Space? NASA Doesn\u2019t See the Starliner Astronauts That Way.<\/a> (Kenneth Chang, New York Times): \u201cIf you go somewhere expecting an eight-day trip and end up not being able to leave for eight months, most people would consider that \u2018stranded.\u2019\u2026 All summer, NASA and Boeing officials have been reluctant to use the words, \u2018stuck\u2019 and \u2018stranded,\u2019 which would add another black mark to a spacecraft that has been delayed for years by technical setbacks.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Augustine, AI, and the Demon Heuristic<\/a> (Robert Cotton, Mere Orthodoxy): \u201cOne does not have to dig deep into the comments section of a ChatGPT demo video to find someone convinced that there\u2019s something demonic about it. At the risk of keeping company with the most paranoid of the terminally online, I would like to add another point which makes this position plausible\u2013that there is something of the demonic to recent AI developments.\u2026 I think we should be quite alarmed by how we are approaching Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and how it appears to look. If this theurgic vision of idolatry is Biblically true, we should be worried that there are malignant actors attempting to gain a foothold. The veneer of disenchantment to which technology so effectively pretends is, in fact, quite capable of hiding a very old and very magical stratagem.\u201d