zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
That’s cool and all, but I don’t see how that changes anything. Christian Satan is different from Jewish Satan.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but I’m talking about Satan within Christian mythology, not Judaism.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
You should read Revolt of the Angels.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
Have you read the Bible? The only evil shit that Satan does is when he fucks up Job’s life, and that’s in collusion with God. Meanwhile, God is doing evil on almost every page of the Old Testament.
The reason we’re supposed to hate Satan is because he rebelled against God. Again, if you’ve read the Old Testament, you have dozens of good reasons to rebel against God.
This train of thought is what lead to the creation of Satanism as a literary movement in the 19th century and then as a religion in the late 20th century.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
Speaking as a Satanist: we don’t believe in Heaven, Hell, or an afterlife, so we’re very much anti-apocalypse. This world is the only one we’ve got, so we don’t want it to end.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
The only good that prayer can do is as a mindfulness exercise, and there aren’t any shortcuts for those.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
So that’s what those are for? That’s like saying “I don’t need to go running. Look, I can just draw a stick figure in this book, flip the pages, and he runs for me!”
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
That thing would make me want to start praying if it’s very existence didn’t prove that there was no god.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with effective altruism?
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how you could read the Bible and not think that’s where those are fuckers are going.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
Apocalyptic religions? Where the apocalypse is a good thing? Those are scary.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
These are conservatives. They won’t tolerate a woke AI.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
Because they think that they’re going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
This is Christianity.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
Never forget that Christians think that the apocalypse is a good thing.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking of another word that starts with S.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.
Danger. Danger.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 3 weeks ago:
It is the most popular one. If somebody wanted to start a competitor, they’d have a hard time.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 3 weeks ago:
Esperanto still exists and there is a worldwide community of speakers.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 3 weeks ago:
Are you not using an adblocker?
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 5 weeks ago:
I guess one person’s “clunky” is another person’s “crisp”. You want precise, pixel-perfect controls for games that hard.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 5 weeks ago:
They already said that Legend of Zelda was “too old-school and clunky” for them, so it’s a good bet they’ll hate these, too.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 5 weeks ago:
You don’t even need to hire a “troll farm” now. You can just do it all with AI.
- Comment on Trump Brands Dems the ‘Party of Satan’ in Unhinged Rant 1 month ago:
Once again, Republicans making Democrats sound so much cooler than they actually are.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
I’m mainly talking about celebrities and other “taste-makers”.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
That’s why decentralized platforms have to be the answer. They might not be impossible to co-opt, but they’re certainly more difficult.
I’ve been warning people about this stuff for years, and they wouldn’t listen. I’m not happy about being right. It sucks!
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
What does it take to get people to switch, though? The owner of X did a Nazi salute in front of a national audience. Twice. And most people are still on there.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 month ago:
They do hire women, and people of color, which is a great start for a restaurant so steeped in “Southern values,”
I’d say that having women and people of color cook for you has been a Southern value for a long time.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 1 month ago:
It isn’t too difficult, but you should use a VPN, too, or else you might get an angry letter from your ISP.
Or you can avoid all that and just use Soulseek.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You mean you couldn’t care less.