At the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels. (Saint Cyril[…]
Day: November 30, 2024
ChatGPT and the Purpose of Education
S.A. Dance makes a good case for true education, on the second anniversary of the release of ChatGPT, the ‘artificial intelligence’ software – which is in essence just an algorithm collating the repertoire of the collective knowledge of humans. As Dunce puts it: Two years ago, on November 30, OpenAI made their text generator software[…]
Britain Chooses Death
Tragic, but not a suprise, that the House of Commons yesterday voted by quite a wide margin – 330 to 275 – to legalize physician-assisted murder-suicide, known by the euphemism ‘euthanasia’. This literally means ‘good death’, which this most definitely is not. Not a surprise, since in a nation that has lost God, to paraphrase[…]