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BTC157: Personal AI Models and Bitcoin w/ Jeff Booth (Bitcoin Podcast)

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Fascinating. I do see a disturbing trend though. I forget the time stamp, but Jeff (who is one of my favorite thinkers in this space, just brilliant) discusses the “Jeff AI bot” he is building to help make company decisions and same time. Like a “mini Jeff booth”. It attends meetings, takes notes, looks like Jeff. Creepy enough. But probably common in near future. Then they discuss how the models will make our mini me AIs more and more like us. After 20 years, they will almost be us. Then they discuss when we die, our families will have a “copy of us” to ask questions to, talk with. Forever. They discuss that, without mentioning that it is…crazy, creepy, unhumam, wrong? Bizarre. We are not our knowledge. We are not our ideas. We are not our image. We are body/souls (must have both to be human) made in the image of God. We are physical, corporeal. It’s why God took in a body to save us. We die, but we were not made to die. We will live forever with Him, and He has risen from the dead, and all will rise one day. AI bots are NOT us. Not even close. Even if it looks, talks and thinks like you. Just 1s and 0s. That ain’t you. I fear the Christian truth of what it means to be human is getting lost in the conversations. And when Jeff mentions this I realized many people might be starting to get comfy with insane ideas. We are going to be dealing with some crazy stuff very soon. Let’s not get lost in the false promises. Live forever on the chip? No, no, no.

Happy and Blessed New Year friends! Happy Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. May she intercede for us and for all this new year. Monday 1 January 2024 Mary, the Holy Mother of God - Solemnity  Spiritual Reading Your Second Reading from the Office of Readings: Mary, the Holy Mother of God From a letter of St Athanasius The Word took our nature from Mary The Word took to himself the sons of Abraham, says the Apostle, and so had to be like his brothers in all things. He had then to take a body like ours. This explains the fact of Mary’s presence: she is to provide him with a body of his own, to be offered for our sake. Scripture records her giving birth, and says: She wrapped him in swaddling clothes. Her breasts, which fed him, were called blessed. Sacrifice was offered because the child was her firstborn. Gabriel used careful and prudent language when he announced his birth. He did not speak of “what will be born in you” to avoid the impression that a body would be introduced into her womb from outside; he spoke of “what will be born from you,” so that we might know by faith that her child originated within her and from her. By taking our nature and offering it in sacrifice, the Word was to destroy it completely and then invest it with his own nature, and so prompt the Apostle to say: This corruptible body must put on incorruption; this mortal body must put on immortality. This was not done in outward show only, as some have imagined. This is not so. Our Saviour truly became man, and from this has followed the salvation of man as a whole. Our salvation is in no way fictitious, nor does it apply only to the body. The salvation of the whole man, that is, of soul and body, has really been achieved in the Word himself. What was born of Mary was therefore human by nature, in accordance with the inspired Scriptures, and the body of the Lord was a true body: It was a true body because it was the same as ours. Mary, you see, is our sister, for we are all born from Adam. The words of St John, the Word was made flesh, bear the same meaning, as we may see from a similar turn of phrase in St Paul: Christ was made a curse for our sake. Man’s body has acquired something great through its communion and union with the Word. From being mortal it has been made immortal; though it was a living body it has become a spiritual one; though it was made from the earth it has passed through the gates of heaven. Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is for ever perfect. In the Trinity we acknowledge one Godhead, and thus one God, the Father of the Word, is proclaimed in the Church.

Saint John the Apostle, pray for us.

Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄🎅🎁 There is so much to be thankful for! Big things and little things…God is good and the truth shines in the darkness.

I am not as familiar with the Bible as I should be. Typical Catholic? Sorry… I heard this reference on a recent podcast, to Revelations 6:5. It seems clear, in the end times food prices for the masses, among other things, will inflate to very high prices. While the “wine” for the elites will be fine. Just seemed…timely…and something I hadn't noticed. Thank God for bitcoin.

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And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying,

I love my podcasts. And surprisingly I listen to some non bitcoin ones even! Been looking for Catholic ones that are trying to grapple with the psy ops and confusion of the last 3 years. When nobody even mentions the craziness of the last few years I start to question their intelligence and authenticity to be honest. Also to be effective out faith has to be applied in the real world, and current events. Don’t get me wrong - the theology and liturgy ones are great and essential. But looking for new ones too. I stumbled upon Avoiding Babylon. Highly recommended! Looks like they were jarred awake from the psy ops going on and aren’t afraid to discuss, from a Catholic take. Excellent. I’m also checking out A Catholic Take, Crisis Point, John Henry Westen show along with the ones I check into regularly: Rules for Retrogrades, Taylor Marshall, Thank God for Bitcoin. Any recommendations?