New Year, Old AKMA
AKMA is a priest, lecturer (New Test., Greek, Early Church, Crit Theory), writer, gamer; Glasgow, Oxford, now parish ministry in Abingdon-on-Thames. Will not try [in vain?] to take away the pain of being a hopeless unbeliever.
http://akma.disseminary.org
- Loot that drops after defeating me: -Several fountain pens, including at least one with +1 or better against puzzles and translation problems -A Bod card - A hat (+1 charisma) (still leaves me below 10, but at least it's a plus)
- Hey, my brilliant daughter is teaching an high school art class elective on comics art/graphic novels, and asked me about a library shelf (as it were) of artists/novels. I relayed some of the obvious, but I am not a voracious reader of HS-appropriate graphic works. Any nominations for deep cuts?
- I just realised that one way of characterising my research might be ‘how does “biblical interpretation “ (as done by humans) differ from the results of a LLM?’
- Once that occurred to me, I thought that a lot of essays in biblical interpretation actually do read as if they were produced by (a very sophisticated) AI contrivance.
- The discipline is so old, and so bound by powerful conventions (both within and outwith religious discourses), that the *trajectory* of any given essay is likely to be narrowly constrained by precedent and acceptable methods.
- So as I write my next essays in criticism, I will be asking myself as I compose my thoughts, ‘How can I write in a way that reflects my human authorship and minimises any probability of AI generation?’
- January listening accordin to last.fm 1 The Beatles 35 scrobbles 2 XTC 15 3 Joni Mitchell 13 4 The Band 12 5 Talking Heads 10 6 Adele 9 7 Bruce Springsteen 9 8 Jethro Tull 9 9 Juliana Hatfield 8 10 Lou Reed 8 (the Mountain Goats excluded)
- Because of the September Hard Drive Catastrophe, my iTunes music library had to repopulate from scratch; so the figure for the Beatles this month reflects the fact that they were an easy choice to sift through, re-fave (high), therefore show up a lot in a month where most cuts are flat-rated.
