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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Minus -33 down to 474 just to give him a good fright. 🦇 👍
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  Did anyone really enjoy assemblies?

  by SydBarrett in

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  the twickenham post made me think of this.

  i have a few jw family members on facebook and being summertime, their pics of the convention have shown up in my fb feed.

  along with their comments about "i wished it would never end" or "what a glorious weekend".

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  I liked the book releases best. They are really missing something without the book releases. I guess they want to save money, but they are probably underestimating how much it motivated people to attend all the sessions and speculate on what themed talk was a book title.
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  Where Does Watchtower Doctrine Contradict Scripture?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  here are some areas that i have found:.

  not only is watchtower eschatology offbase, which is not critical, but so is watchtower soteriology … which is critical.

  the bible says not to put trust in men who cannot save.

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  Phil 2.11 says that everyone bending their knee to Jesus is “to the glory of God the Father.”

  I’ve yet to read any statement in scripture that even hints that worship of God is “to the glory of” an another. Clearly Jesus is distinguish from God in this verse because worship to God is his alone by right, whereas bending the knee to Jesus is for the purpose of elevating Jesus’ God and ours.

  God is the source of everything and the rightful recipient of worship.

  Jesus is God’s Son through who God created everything and through whom he will reconcile all creation. Thus all honour and praise to Jesus is, as scripture plainly says, “to the glory of God the Father.”

  Paul spells out the difference between God and Jesus extremely clearly again in 1 Cor 15.27 and 28:

  27 For “God has put all things in subjection under [Jesus] feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  I think that website scrapes the data from the Patreon site, so if it is no longer available on Patreon then the graph site might stick at the last known count of 508
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  It looks like the patron number has been removed from LE’s Patreon account?

  I guess he didn’t enjoy the monthly speculation about how far his support would drop, or the reminder that his boost from the begging video was only temporary.
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  Where Does Watchtower Doctrine Contradict Scripture?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here are some areas that i have found:.

  not only is watchtower eschatology offbase, which is not critical, but so is watchtower soteriology … which is critical.

  the bible says not to put trust in men who cannot save.

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  slimboyfat

  The Watchtower magazine bases its articles on Bible teaching. If you are questioning that then you are undermining the basis for believing it is the truth. Honestly, sometimes I think this discussion forum is beginning to develop apostate leanings. 😁
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

  1. jw
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  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  I got a lot of wrong answers from ChatGPT too.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6003458855927808/frustrating-discussion-chargpt

  1. Do you think AI gave better or worse answers to your questions than the average human? The percentage of humanity who could give the correct answer to the first question for example must be exceedingly tiny. The fact that we are testing it out on obscure pieces of knowledge already is testament to how far it has come. AI is already better than the average human in general, and better than specialists in some particular areas. That already makes it useful before the weak points are improved.

  2. Have you tried the same questions on GPT 4? Do you think you will get better answers? Because ongoing improvements are substantial. The “hands” problem in early AI image generation has already largely been fixed, for example. (See above) GPT 2 apparently spat out nonsense most of the time. If the trajectory of improvement continues then most of the issues you highlight may be resolved relatively quickly. People have also reported substantial improvements in output if you adjust the prompt slightly. For example, you could try prefacing your maths question with the stament: “answer the following question as if you are a mathematics professor”. It sounds stupid but it makes a difference.

  3. I think it’s fundamentally a mistake to assume that AI that makes errors is neither useful, nor a threat. AI could still be issuing “wrong” answers to basic questions right up to the day that it devises a new way for killing all humans on the planet in short order. It is apparently already very good at suggesting new pathogens, toxins, other weapons, and methods of delivery. Even if it’s singing the wrong lyrics to “Eve of Destruction” while doing it, we could all still be dead.
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  My own experience of Midjourney is that it has improved over the past few months. At first it made a terrible mess of human hands, but the latest images I have asked it to produce include pretty good drawings of hands. The fuzzy details are beginning to get clearer and the images are more and more accurate and usable. As it is the images that Midjourney and other programmes produce are useable and are already replacing the labour of artists.

  Take this image from a few weeks ago. I asked for a depiction of Joseph teaching Jesus how to be a carpenter. This was one of the results. The hands look pretty good.

  
  
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  If You Can Remember When This Was Displayed in the KH - You Ain't No Spring Chicken!

  by mikronboy in

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  slimboyfat

  No I can’t remember this. How old do you think I am? I can remember old timers talking about it as something that happened a long time ago.

  In my terms, if you can remember what an S8 form was, or food tickets for the convention, then you’re doing well. 😁
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  Geoffrey Hinton on how AI differs from human intelligence and why it is a concern.

  https://youtu.be/-9cW4Gcn5WY