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Boils down to this: We STILL want the fruit from that one tree.

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"Until we know what that job is"... Challenge accepted: Micah 6:8 is my first thought.

This comment section is full of wisdom and humor; I love reading everyone's responses!

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I am pleased to know Spencer is fluent in Spaceballs and South Park. My wife considers that type of entertainment as low brow and often says things like, "You're an educated man. How can you watch stuff like that?". Now I can say, "Spencer watches this stuff!".

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Cartman doesn’t miss a beat when poor Kenny meets his demise yet again.

The gnomes “plan” in which step two is grossly lacking sounds much like those seeking to tear down the existing institutions, values, civilization, and even reality itself. They focus on the deconstruction with no proposals on how to reach the promised utopia which will magically come forth from the ruins.

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Dear Misters Klavan,

Spencer Klavan’s remark that “Yet to my mind this is the essential fact: our humanity is good, is miraculous, is the point of it all,” in immediate context with the discussion of a robotic alternative to humanity, is well taken. Does Ecclesiastes give us the ultimate context? It puts pawns, players, and kings in place.

Tholepin

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Humans are still trying to build the tower of Babel. That won't end well. I just came across this verse from a commenter on another Substack: Ezekiel‬ ‭28:2‭-‬9‬ ‭NIV‬‬

[2] ....‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.

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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

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I watched a Rogan episode a few years ago where he interviewed Musk. I think it was his first Musk interview, but regardless, what I gleaned from that interview was that Elon was essentially a humanist who saw technology as inevitable. He basically uses it to make things better for us though, and that was his guiding principle. I could be wrong here about everything but this was the impression I got from an interview I saw with him a few years ago, so take my observations with a grain of salt. Anyway, he talked about Neurolink there too, and his argument for it was that A.I. was going to happen. There were too many interested parties all over the globe working on it for it not to happen. When it finally happens he made an analogy of us talking to chimps, that it was going to so surpass us that the only chance we would have at all was linking up with it and going along for the ride. Neurolink was made to link up with A I. so we wouldn't be surpassed to our own extinction. I think that's misguided, I think that it will be the linking up with it that will be the source of the most problems, but I do think he's trying to help individual human beings. I think he's on the right side, has the right intentions, but I think he's misguided and wrong about how to go against this awful technology we're hell bent on making. Personally, I think we should just eschew it as much as possible and roll the dice of our future. If we're going along for a ride either way, I have more confidence in fate than tech. I guess we'll get to see which of us has the better tactic.

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I just had a horrifying thought. I wonder what effect a Neurolink chip would have were one implanted in POTUS. Of course, when one becomes a houseplant, the question may be moot.

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God isn't a bumbling middle manager, and He knows how ridiculous we are as a group, so even if it is a bumpy ride, ultimately we'll be OK... but even so, the drill a hole in my head pull back the fibrous meninges and PLUG SOMETHING DIRECTLY INTO MY BRAIN is also freaking me out a little.

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