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Discussing Christianity, science, and sometimes philosophy (mind & epistemology) on the internet. ex-Christian. God-fearer. Pandeism stan.
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Taking a hiatus. Be back maybe in 2 or 3 months

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The shroud of Turin is an embarrassment to the entire enterprise of Catholicism. A clear demonstration of the ability to twist and deny data to embrace a tradition that has no traceable tradition. Taking any possible empirical result against and twisting it into a supernatural argument for.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I had never heard of this book but the combination of people in it is really making me consider it. I mean, Alex Honnold???

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The mere-est form of Christianity that I can conceive of would be trusting the creed in Philippians 2 and nothing more.

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When scientists make neurons-on-a-chip platforms to do things like play pong, do you know how they train their neurons to do what they want? They give sine waves for positive reinforcement learning, and send white noise for negative reinforcement.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Oops this short post turned into a thread that consumed my whole lunch break... 🙃

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