Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Sterling College. keywords: Christian; Rhetoric; Composition; Electracy Check out my blog: it's better.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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This will be challenging for the actors to learn (and obviously require subtitles) but would be really cool if he pulls it off. If anyone can, it's Eggers
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What is happening in English departments right now should concern everyone. We are on the verge of dismantling anthropocentrism and according a mysterious form of pulsating subjecthood to material things. This research must stop until appropriate safeguards are in place
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“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
-Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 | @nytimes
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I wrote about why I’m proud @TGC has drawn a line in the sand on AI usage in the writing we publish.
In short: We don’t want AI’s tentacles on any of the written works we publish. thegospelcoalition.org/artic…
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"literally nothing deeper than that; it's a personal conceit masquerading as a timeless principle."
LOL he's using it to write his tweets.
If you can't write a tweet without an AI maybe you SHOULD consider becoming a "neo-luddite" or whatever
Most of the "conservative Christian" academics (professors, theologians, etc) see "writing" and becoming a "respected writer" as their only real path to any clout and recognition both within their small bubbles and from the broader world (something they deeply crave as validation).
They all imagine themselves as the next Wendell Berry.
Thus, staking out an aggressive, virtue-signaling, and purist anti-AI stance on "writing" is a necessary response to preserve their idealized dream.
Their celebration of now becoming a "neo-luddite" is literally nothing deeper than that; it's a personal conceit masquerading as a timeless principle.
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Despite considerable cultural, financial, and social momentum/support, video games have produced surprisingly few artifacts of moral or aesthetic significance.
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There's no way for this not to sound rude, but y'all need to go read an actual poem by a human. This machine poem is awful, and it's embarrassing that you like it.
Fable: "write me a rhyming poem with six four line stanzas, each stanza removes another vowel. the first has no u, the second no u or i, etc."
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I had this exact experience as well!
As a kid I thought “two’s company, three’s a crowd” meant it’s more fun to have more people. So I’d always invite a third person along somewhere and go “three’s a crowd!” Wasn’t until I was like 17 that my mom told me it’s meant to be a bad thing. Sorry I’m an extrovert at heart.
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I know this is all engagement bait or whatever, but why does Dostoevsky always get put down as some kind of depressing nihilist, when his two most famous works are about everlasting love and the potential of mankind?
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This will include papers from @SterlingCLife's own Chair of Language and Literature, Dr. @LukeBrake and familiar IFF faces @GCSalter and Elizabeth Jennings, as well as a wonderful reflective paper from Dr. Wilhelm.
Today, at 3pm (CT) some of our presenters from our Spring conference will be reprising their papers for this encore event entitled "Sterling Treasure". All are welcome to join the zoom call whether you want to hear the papers again or for the first time!
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I do not mind the Disney Adult too much (not my cup of tea, but it seems fine).
I am pretty tired of how threatening some public spaces are to my children in terms of public indecency, especially with pornographic images on t-shirts/cars.
Okay. Ban childless adults from Disney World and other kid-centric spaces and let’s have a chat.
And while we’re at it, let’s talk about the number of times I’ve had to sit next to a table of adults loudly spewing profanity, which has become more common than a free bread basket.
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