Simone

thanks for this, I am now imagining John of Patmos, Joichim of Fiore and John Nelson Darby being yoinked from their various time periods only to be implicated in Iran-Contra

and even the stuff that follows which is about land is explicitly about a relationship to the land that is explicitly conditional on good behaviour and adherence to the mitzvot, and makes explicit what happens if that doesn't occur. There's a reasonאם שמע תשמעו opens with אם

but the idea that an LLM can develop consciousness is predicated on that idea, no? So if Sellars was right, then that is an impossibility, and can safely be discarded. That's the point. If no one can demonstrate how one can infer reference and semantics purely from syntax, the question is answered

serious question though: do you have an answer to the application of the Chinese Room to LLMs, or more broadly mathematically governed recombination can even produce knowledge of reference? Because it seems like you need that prior to asking this question

that's fair, I wasn't so much saying that you were wrong on that but rather that I think slavery is so normal for Paul that even his talk of salvation is dependent on it - I think the idea of a imagined slavery-free heaven is even a stretch for him

"born for slavery" and "the child of enslaved woman will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman." What I think this shows is that, just as for the Hebrew Bible, slavery and the language of slavery is as natural for Paul as it is in the infamous first book of Aristotles' Politics.

Paul's soteriology is not "slavery free" but rather Slavery shifts in his rhetoric - one one hand, it is good, as his followers are "slaves of Christ" who have been "bought for a price" - but OTOH the Jews who do not accept his message are themselves slaves, Children of Hagar who are...

I think there's something important missing here which is that, while Tanakh is replete with slave language (including the language of "redemption" which is the restoration of Israel to their rightful place as slaves of G-d, this doesn't substantially change in the NT, but rather warps....

reminds me of this, from Simone Weil, an ethnically Jewish Woman (despite her complicated religion) writing to a Catholic priest in occupied Marseilles in 1942

Poem from a funeral today:
Return
This heap of words
Ashen-haired

Erupt
On pages onward Where this black comes from

Does it ward
Some
Thing
To
Ward time
Tenant of the impeccable

Yes, fifty odd books pile on each other
Ply weave
O cesurae return
-ing

Black on white
Staccato stitch on stitch
Bound as celebrant arcane apprentice
The weight of the page turns back, its heft
in the turning light
To re-read
For instance each
hand witnesses the work of the hand
Ear hears on air
To follow a round
About
Time and turn

Poem from a funeral today:
Return
This heap of words
Ashen-haired

Erupt
On pages onward Where this black comes from

Does it ward
Some
Thing
To
Ward time
Tenant of the impeccable

Yes, fifty odd books pile on each other
Ply weave
O cesurae return
-ing

reminds me of this, from Simone Weil, an ethnically Jewish Woman (despite her complicated religion) writing to a Catholic priest in occupied Marseilles in 1942

oh yeah, that was very much an "and" not a "instead of" statement to be clear

it's also the legacy of culturally protestant 19th C perennialists who dismissed everything they didn't like as being later "corruptions" of the tradition, I think

aside from everything else saying this in a country whose population was nearly halved during the 30 years war following the reformation is a decision, and tells you a lot about how genuine these people's appeals to history are

their fight is for an phantasm, though we already knew that

I've read nearly all of this in the past week and boy is this rough going (open access)
muse.jhu.edu/book/75386

Red morph eastern screech owl from yesterday
#birding #owl #screechowl

The entry from Clines' Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (I think? either that or HALOT) for גֵא, the adjectival form of pride, conveniently vocalized like "gay"

it is pride month here now, so, in the spirit of the season:

terrified
howling in horror

Vish is good people, if you're able to help please do 👇

*really austere morality, I mean (as in parts of this are no less that vibe that Ezekiel - like, there's a coldness there, if you get what I mean)

nevertheless, it is quite something when a G-d says this:
הַזְכִּירֵ֕נִי נִשָּׁפְטָ֖ה יָ֑חַד סַפֵּ֥ר אַתָּ֖ה לְמַ֥עַן תִּצְדָּֽק׃
Remind me, let us argue together, speak for yourself that you may be [vindicated/proven righteous]
(I haven't decided how to translate that last verb)

it's a getting teary while reading the latter half of Isaiah type evening
the mixture of hope, anger and a really moral austerity is something to struggle with, but it's hard when texts that are often quoted for the hope become more difficult

But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...

It's the Chaim Rabin translation of the Damascus Document, published as The Zadokite Documents, OUP, 1958. MS B, p20, lines 27-34

(this page has two sentences on it)

of righteousness and do not reject the righteous ordinances when they hear them - they shall overcome all the inhabitants of the universe, and G-d shall make conciliation for them, and they shall witness salvation, for they have taken refuge in his holy name.

covenant, righteousness and truth are your judgements upon us; who do not act highhandedly against his holy ordinances and his righteous judgements and his true testimonies; and who learn from the former judgements by which the men of the community have been judged; and who give ear to the teacher

But all they that hold fast to these rules, inasmuch as they go out and go in according to the law; and listen to the voice of the teacher of righteousness, and confess before G-d saying "indeed we have acted wickedly, both we and our fathers, by walking contrariwise against the ordinances of the...