Hey
@ZNP
Is there a blood connection between you and Chicken Little, or has her anxiety just rubbed off on you?
So is it Americans using 3d printers that are putting people in China out of work, or is it the Chinese? And yes, I absolutely agree with you that AI holds some scary possibilities. However, I don't know that either of the presidential candidates are against the development of AI.
Donald Trump
As former president, Trump has an actual track record with AI: His administration created a
Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, and he signed an
executive order in early 2019 that mostly
ordered agencies to invest in AI products and research and created a data-sharing partnership with the private sector.
But that was then, and in the midst of this year’s hype about generative AI and AI risk, Trump hasn’t said very much about it at all. He did, however, share an
AI-generated image of himself in prayer on his social media platform Truth Social. There’s also
an X account (unaffiliated with his campaign) that features AI-generated images of the former president at various signal moments in human history, which has become a tongue-in-cheek, deeply surreal rallying point for very-online Republicans.
So, you're not voting for him on the basis of his stand on AI.
While I do agree fully that the things you see coming will be coming, I'm not necessarily in agreement with the circumstances that you see today as being correctly identified as those 'things'.
But the U.S. economy is strong. Nearly every indicator shows that. Just because prices have gone up across the board does not make the U.S. economy weak or strong. It's just a reset in prices and as wages, which most have already adjusted, complete adjusting we'll settle into another period of calm for a while. As I understand it, the largest driver of this recent bout of inflation came about because 4 years ago we raised a lot of wages all across the nation. Employee wages are usually the largest line item expense for any business. If you jack that cost up 15-25%, then prices are going to go up for finished products. It's just a simple economic fact that when costs of production go up, prices also go up.
So, we jacked up wages pretty heavily across the board and we're now finishing the adjusting for that process. Inflation will settle down and we will go on with our lives until Jesus returns just as he said. We will be living pretty normal lives when he returns. But there will certainly be days of great tribulation ahead. We are currently in the birth pains and I don't know how long those will last. The Scriptures give no instruction as to the length of the 'time of the birth pains'. Just that they will be times of great earthquakes in diverse places and wars and rumors of war. But Jesus is preparing to come!! Selah!
I try not to read your posts and this one reminded me why. I don't like to be insulting, but you are clueless. I am not afraid of AI, nor do I encourage anyone to try and stop it's development. That is a fool's errand and you would be crushed by the word of God. Since we were told it would be here you would be fighting against God. It does not make me anxious, rather it means I can see the day approaching and so I am looking up because my redemption is drawing near. It is obviously not an issue in the election so you trying to make it one just makes you look even more ignorant. Trying to tie this to the election may be important to you but not to me, and so this only makes me wonder why it is so important for you to tie everything to this election? You have been on this forum for three weeks and I can see why many have been alienated by you.
I enjoy a discussion with someone who disagrees with my assessment as long as they bring something to the table. I read this post because it was addressed to me but after reading it I am encouraged to ignore your posts as much as possible.
We also disagree on what the scriptures say, which is fine, I don't know of anyone who has identical beliefs on eschatology. But the principle I do hold dear is summed up in one of my favorite hymns, and you have violated that principle when you say the scripture gives no instruction as to the length of time. That is patently false and flies in the face of many scriptures. This is the hymn by George Rawson.
1
We limit not the truth of God
To our poor reach of mind,
By notions of our day and sect,
Crude, partial and confined.
Now let a new and better hope
Within our hearts be stirred:
The Lord hath yet more light and truth
To break forth from His Word.
2
Who dares to bind by his dull sense
The oracles of heaven,
For all the nations, tongues and climes
And all the ages given!
The universe how much unknown!
That ocean unexplored!
The Lord hath yet more light and truth
To break forth from His Word.
3
Darkling our great forefathers went
The first steps of the way;
’Twas but the dawning yet to grow
Into the perfect day;
And grow it shall, our glorious Sun
More fervid rays afford:
The Lord hath yet more light and truth
To break forth from His Word.
4
The valleys past, ascending still,
Our souls would higher climb,
And look down from supernal heights,
On all the bygone times;
Upward we press, the air is clear,
And the sphere-music heard!
The Lord hath yet more light and truth
To break forth from His Word.
5
O Father, Son and Spirit, send
Us increase from above;
Enlarge, expand all Christian hearts
To comprehend Thy love;
And make us all go on to know
With nobler powers conferred:
The Lord hath yet more light and truth
To break forth from His Word.