is, in my view, a plausible candidate for the best philosopher in the world. He’s started a Substack! His first post was about the argument from undesigned divergences which, in my view, totally torpedoes Biblical inerrancy and the “maximal data” resurrection argument. His second post is about applying to incubate impactful animal charities—deadline is today! I’ve been literally trying for years to get Dustin to start a Substack, so now that he has, you should all go Subscribe.
, another very good philosopher, has also started a Substack. Many interesting things to come.
Reminder as I said in my last post that there are opportunities to incubate an impactful animal charity or AI safety startup. Do it!
Another apparent sun miracle, this time in Puerto Rico, occurring with the sun high in the air. Still tracking down information on it. Tantalizingly, it’s ▶on video, and also discussed here, in a single sentence that links to a source I can’t track down.
The Miracle of the Sun is a common, albeit fantastic, event at many apparition sites. At dozens of locations, literally millions have reported the sun miracle. It happened before a crowd of 100,000 in Puerto Rico on April 23, 1991, which was the 38
thanniversary of the apparitions there.[[36]]It happened again in the Philippines on March 5, 1993, in front of a crowd of 300,000.[[37]]In El Cajas, Ecuador 120,000 pilgrims were in attendance when the miracle of the sun occurred there in the late 1980’s. Similar events have been recorded at such apparition sites as Medjugorje, Bosnia; Denver, Colorado; Lubbock, Texas; and Conyers, Georgia.
Speaking of which, there’s a new sun miracle that occurred at high elevation in Agoo! The Agoo sun miracle was discovered by who appeared from nowhere and published two of the most thorough and well-researched Fatima pieces written anywhere! His piece on Ghiaie was especially good.
“Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons.” Spooky stuff. AI safety legislation is desperately needed!
covers the very interesting case of Prahlav Jani, whose apparent miracle seems way more impressive than all of the Catholic ones; it also, if true, would appear to vindicate Hinduism.
My friend summarizes the total collapse of the pro-Fatima case.
has another good post about miracles. The point in a sentence: the case for Catholicism, even if miracles happen, rests on dubious theological assumptions, so Catholics can’t maintain that you should become Catholic by casting aside debatable theology for overwhelming empirical evidence.
Should We Hand Off the Most Important Decisions to AI? I did a podcast about this when I was working for Forethought. Speaking of which, they’ve continued to churn out banger research reports!
Scott summarizes mechanistic interpretability. He also explains why Nick Decker is, unfortunately, in hell.
Speaking of and being hellbound, Scott had some good posts about theism.
My friend Rajat Sirkanungo has a paper about eternal hell. The basic point is a good one: if you think God might make people suffer for all of eternity, why are you so sure he wouldn’t lie?
is one of the most prolific eucharistic miracle investigators in the world, but I find a lot of her posts pretty hard to follow without much context. However, she recently had a post responding to Joe Schmid.
My friend Joe Schmid has been making the rounds recently. I recommend his video ▶making the cumulative case for theism, as well ▶as his ▶Catholicism videos. See also the ▶debate on veganism and his interview ▶with me on veganism (we’re both vegan). Fun fact: I was moderately inebriated in that video!
As of 2024, the median AI researcher thinks 𝕏there’s a 10% chance that AI will cause extinction or serious disempowerment. Scary stuff.
I think I’ve linked this before, but outrageously good paper by Ken Olum.
Timelines are short, linkposts are short, God bless.
