That it is a monetary fine is really crucial as one of two ways of establishing that the Mosaic law that Christians leverage for their legalism does not consider an unborn fetus a person.
First, as noted, the fine for a miscarriage is monetary only if no harm comes to the woman. If the woman is hurt, the Mosaic concept of reciprocal justice (eye for eye, etc), which was likely borrowed from the code of Hammurabi, kicks in. The death of an unborn fetus has no reciprocal punishment because that form of justice applies to people.
The second way of establishing that an unborn fetus is not considered a person in the hebrew bible is right in the second version of the creation story in Genesis 2:7
then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being
(emphasis mine)
So here first, and in various other places in the bible (and in the broader Greco-Roman culture in which the nascent Christianity would later form), life began at first breath.
It’s these priests who are maybe accelerating this by their usage - an LLM can’t rape an alter boy, or not directly. If God is speaking through ChatGPT and they are just delivering the message, that increasingly seems like a messy and unnecessary middle man.
I genuinely think that there is nothing in any form of Christianity that really prevents that type of “adaptation”, or even adds much friction to its incorporation into doctrine. It’s one of the scarier things about Ai, especially when I see a guy like Peter Thiel getting interested in eschatological matters and religion in general.
Whatever one thinks about any ultimate truth a given religion holds, religion in general and Christianity in particular has been used to pacify, influence, and control masses since its inception. It’s arguably one of its original purposes.
So knowing that, and knowing how fundamentally malleable it is - and I mean fundamental; malleability is built in - I fear that God will increasingly speak through Ai.
On the one hand it is so straightforward it is pedestrian; tech bros are basically building a new Great and Powerful so they can be behind the curtain. But I do worry that it may be one of the more potent latent Ai threats.
Certainly I am here to tell you as someone raised in evangelical Christianity, the ‘vangies are primed for this, and that should scare us.
I want to get into 3D printing before it’s outlawed and I’ve been gravitating to Bambu because I’m novice enough that marketing works. Where should I be looking? Price is a consideration but not my first.
The feeling that I’ve helped someone or something feel safe and loved. Usually that is cats but in any case it feels nice to know you’ve put more of those foundational good feelings into the world somehow.
There is a cat in the crook of my arm right now, and I know she feels safe and loved and in return she’s basically radiating mental health at me.
I’m actually just now realizing that I’ve been assuming that archive.today is affiliated with archive.org, like a url specific to link sharing in the way it is commonly used.
So I’m not necessarily making a statement about the veracity of what is alleged in this article, but I definitely view the service differently than I did.
“These legislators, myself included, are now guilty until we can prove that we’re innocent. How is that right in this country? Isn’t that a little bit backwards?”
It really is.
This dude was so close to accidentally having empathy for immigrants.
I hope they never recover. No ill will to the working level who would be impacted, but it needs to be clear to companies that this shit is TOXIC to your brand to even consider in 2026.
Do you really think we can count on that to persist?
We know tech companies lie if they can get away with it and the fashies are destroying all of the checks and balances that would prevent them getting away with it
That it is a monetary fine is really crucial as one of two ways of establishing that the Mosaic law that Christians leverage for their legalism does not consider an unborn fetus a person.
First, as noted, the fine for a miscarriage is monetary only if no harm comes to the woman. If the woman is hurt, the Mosaic concept of reciprocal justice (eye for eye, etc), which was likely borrowed from the code of Hammurabi, kicks in. The death of an unborn fetus has no reciprocal punishment because that form of justice applies to people.
The second way of establishing that an unborn fetus is not considered a person in the hebrew bible is right in the second version of the creation story in Genesis 2:7
So here first, and in various other places in the bible (and in the broader Greco-Roman culture in which the nascent Christianity would later form), life began at first breath.