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BTC157: Personal AI Models and Bitcoin w/ Jeff Booth (Bitcoin Podcast)

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:Why is Jeff training an AI agent to personify himself?How could such an agent potentially be used in the future?Wha...

Fascinating. I do see a disturbing trend though. I forget the time stamp, but Jeff (who is one of my favorite thinkers in this space, just brilliant) discusses the “Jeff AI bot” he is building to help make company decisions and same time. Like a “mini Jeff booth”. It attends meetings, takes notes, looks like Jeff. Creepy enough. But probably common in near future. Then they discuss how the models will make our mini me AIs more and more like us. After 20 years, they will almost be us. Then they discuss when we die, our families will have a “copy of us” to ask questions to, talk with. Forever. They discuss that, without mentioning that it is…crazy, creepy, unhumam, wrong? Bizarre. We are not our knowledge. We are not our ideas. We are not our image. We are body/souls (must have both to be human) made in the image of God. We are physical, corporeal. It’s why God took in a body to save us. We die, but we were not made to die. We will live forever with Him, and He has risen from the dead, and all will rise one day. AI bots are NOT us. Not even close. Even if it looks, talks and thinks like you. Just 1s and 0s. That ain’t you. I fear the Christian truth of what it means to be human is getting lost in the conversations. And when Jeff mentions this I realized many people might be starting to get comfy with insane ideas. We are going to be dealing with some crazy stuff very soon. Let’s not get lost in the false promises. Live forever on the chip? No, no, no.

Sunday 7 January 2024 The Epiphany of the Lord - Solemnity  About Today Year: B(II). Liturgical Colour: White. The Epiphany of the Lord — The Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c.1657.   In other years: St Raymond of Peñafort (c.1175 - 1275) — Fresco by Tommaso da Modena (1352) in the church of San Niccolò, Treviso.   He was born near Barcelona somewhere between 1175 and 1180. He was educated at the University of Barcelona, where he taught canon law for fifteen years. After a spell at the University of Bologna he returned to Barcelona in 1222 and became a Dominican. At the command of Pope Gregory IX he organised, codified and edited canon law, which, when he started, was nothing better than a chaotic accumulation of isolated decrees. He was elected to be General of the Dominicans and gave the order an excellent set of regulations for its better governance. He died in 1275. Among his works, the Summa casuum is noteworthy. This gives guidance as to how the sacrament of Penance may be administered justly and with benefit to the penitent. Other saints: Saint Cnut the Duke, Martyr Denmark ________ Collect O God, who on this day revealed your Only Begotten Son to the nations by the guidance of a star, grant in your mercy, that we, who know you already by faith, may be brought to behold the beauty of your sublime glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. ________ About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings: Second Reading: Pope St Leo the Great (- 461) Leo was born in Etruria and became Pope in 440. He was a true shepherd and father of souls. He constantly strove to keep the faith whole and strenuously defended the unity of the Church. He repelled the invasions of the barbarians or alleviated their effects, famously persuading Attila the Hun not to march on Rome in 452, and preventing the invading Vandals from massacring the population in 455. Leo left many doctrinal and spiritual writings behind and a number of them are included in the Office of Readings to this day. He died in 461. ________ Liturgical colour: white White is the colour of heaven. Liturgically, it is used to celebrate feasts of the Lord; Christmas and Easter, the great seasons of the Lord; and the saints. Not that you will always see white in church, because if something more splendid, such as gold, is available, that can and should be used instead. We are, after all, celebrating. In the earliest centuries all vestments were white – the white of baptismal purity and of the robes worn by the armies of the redeemed in the Apocalypse, washed white in the blood of the Lamb. As the Church grew secure enough to be able to plan her liturgy, she began to use colour so that our sense of sight could deepen our experience of the mysteries of salvation, just as incense recruits our sense of smell and music that of hearing. Over the centuries various schemes of colour for feasts and seasons were worked out, and it is only as late as the 19th century that they were harmonized into their present form.

Father Mike is brilliant in this homily. Worship is everything. We were Mede to worship God. And, Catholics believe, the worship he asks for is the Mass. Are we giving God what he desires of us when we worship. Blessings this Sunday.

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01/07/24 Worship is the Only Proper Response

Homily from the Epiphany of the Lord. We give God our best, our heart, and what He has asked for. As we know, the heart of religion is worship. Bu...

Intriguing https://news.gab.com/2024/01/gabs-vision-for-2024-an-uncensored-ai-platform/

Happy and Blessed New Year friends! Happy Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. May she intercede for us and for all this new year. Monday 1 January 2024 Mary, the Holy Mother of God - Solemnity  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Mary, the Holy Mother of God From a letter of St Athanasius The Word took our nature from Mary The Word took to himself the sons of Abraham, says the Apostle, and so had to be like his brothers in all things. He had then to take a body like ours. This explains the fact of Mary’s presence: she is to provide him with a body of his own, to be offered for our sake. Scripture records her giving birth, and says: She wrapped him in swaddling clothes. Her breasts, which fed him, were called blessed. Sacrifice was offered because the child was her firstborn. Gabriel used careful and prudent language when he announced his birth. He did not speak of “what will be born in you” to avoid the impression that a body would be introduced into her womb from outside; he spoke of “what will be born from you,” so that we might know by faith that her child originated within her and from her. By taking our nature and offering it in sacrifice, the Word was to destroy it completely and then invest it with his own nature, and so prompt the Apostle to say: This corruptible body must put on incorruption; this mortal body must put on immortality. This was not done in outward show only, as some have imagined. This is not so. Our Saviour truly became man, and from this has followed the salvation of man as a whole. Our salvation is in no way fictitious, nor does it apply only to the body. The salvation of the whole man, that is, of soul and body, has really been achieved in the Word himself. What was born of Mary was therefore human by nature, in accordance with the inspired Scriptures, and the body of the Lord was a true body: It was a true body because it was the same as ours. Mary, you see, is our sister, for we are all born from Adam. The words of St John, the Word was made flesh, bear the same meaning, as we may see from a similar turn of phrase in St Paul: Christ was made a curse for our sake. Man’s body has acquired something great through its communion and union with the Word. From being mortal it has been made immortal; though it was a living body it has become a spiritual one; though it was made from the earth it has passed through the gates of heaven. Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is for ever perfect. In the Trinity we acknowledge one Godhead, and thus one God, the Father of the Word, is proclaimed in the Church.

This is so excellent. Brilliant woman. https://pca.st/episode/cc94d89f-db5f-4541-9031-9873261dbc92

Was listening to this. Pretty insane. Will finish later but got a bit freaky.

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Excellent BTC explanation. His book is great. https://pca.st/episode/add75ce6-da58-4468-87e5-7239923e07d4

Thursday 28 December 2023 The Holy Innocents, Martyrs - Feast  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: The Holy Innocents, Martyrs The Massacre of the Innocents (c.1585) by Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. A sermon of St Quodvultdeus Even before they learn to speak, they proclaim Christ A tiny child is born, who is a great king. Wise men are led to him from afar. They come to adore one who lies in a manger and yet reigns in heaven and on earth. When they tell of one who is born a king, Herod is disturbed. To save his kingdom he resolves to kill him, though if he would have faith in the child, he himself would reign in peace in this life and for ever in the life to come. Why are you afraid, Herod, when you hear of the birth of a king? He does not come to drive you out, but to conquer the devil. But because you do not understand this you are disturbed and in a rage, and to destroy one child whom you seek, you show your cruelty in the death of so many children. You are not restrained by the love of weeping mothers or fathers mourning the deaths of their sons, nor by the cries and sobs of the children. You destroy those who are tiny in body because fear is destroying your heart. You imagine that if you accomplish your desire you can prolong your own life, though you are seeking to kill Life himself. Yet your throne is threatened by the source of grace, so small, yet so great, who is lying in the manger. He is using you, all unaware of it, to work out his own purposes freeing souls from captivity to the devil. He has taken up the sons of the enemy into the ranks of God’s adopted children. The children die for Christ, though they do not know it. The parents mourn for the death of martyrs. The child makes of those as yet unable to speak fit witnesses to himself. See the kind of kingdom that is his, coming as he did in order to be this kind of king. See how the deliverer is already working deliverance, the saviour already working salvation. But you, Herod, do not know this and are disturbed and furious. While you vent your fury against the child, you are already paying him homage, and do not know it. How great a gift of grace is here! To what merits of their own do the children owe this kind of victory? They cannot speak, yet they bear witness to Christ. They cannot use their limbs to engage in battle, yet already they bear off the palm of victory.

Next up on my reading list. Looking forward to it. Recommended by several people. Howard was also instrumental on my path to the Catholic Church with his Evangelical is Not Enough book.

Saint John the Apostle, pray for us.

St Stephen, the first martyr, pray for us!

This really is an excellent brief summary of Saylors orange pilling ideas! View quoted note →

Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄🎅🎁 There is so much to be thankful for! Big things and little things…God is good and the truth shines in the darkness.

I am not as familiar with the Bible as I should be. Typical Catholic? Sorry… I heard this reference on a recent podcast, to Revelations 6:5. It seems clear, in the end times food prices for the masses, among other things, will inflate to very high prices. While the “wine” for the elites will be fine. Just seemed…timely…and something I hadn't noticed. Thank God for bitcoin.

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And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying,

I love my podcasts. And surprisingly I listen to some non bitcoin ones even! Been looking for Catholic ones that are trying to grapple with the psy ops and confusion of the last 3 years. When nobody even mentions the craziness of the last few years I start to question their intelligence and authenticity to be honest. Also to be effective out faith has to be applied in the real world, and current events. Don’t get me wrong - the theology and liturgy ones are great and essential. But looking for new ones too. I stumbled upon Avoiding Babylon. Highly recommended! Looks like they were jarred awake from the psy ops going on and aren’t afraid to discuss, from a Catholic take. Excellent. I’m also checking out A Catholic Take, Crisis Point, John Henry Westen show along with the ones I check into regularly: Rules for Retrogrades, Taylor Marshall, Thank God for Bitcoin. Any recommendations?