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  Top AI inventor Geoffrey Hinton reluctantly concluded that AI will probably humanity fairly soon

  by slimboyfat in

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  geoffrey hinton, major inventor of artificial intelligence: .

  “if you take the existential risk seriously, as i now do—i used to think it was way off, but now i think it’s serious, and fairly close—it might be quite sensible to just stop developing these things any further, but i think it’s completely naïve to think that would happen.

  there’s no way to make that happen.

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  Want to check a scary movie, with all of that hype about AI?

  Watch The Landmower Man from 1992....
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  Silicon Valley Bank bankruptcy....

  by mikeflood in

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  didn't know silicon valley bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.

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  system seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. thoughts?.

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  First Republic Bank, third bank failure this year (last weekend) , largest since 2008, there's a couple more of regional banks in trouble, I hope it gets fixed
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  Hailstone message.....June 23 WT

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  new jun 23 wt....elders to follow gideon example, even if instructions doesn't seems practical, gideon reduced army by 99 % and he obeyed, it could be changes in theocratic direction similar to this.

  what that means?.

  elders will need the courage to follow instructions "may relate to delivering a symbolic hailstone message...".. in another section "major world events may raise some from spiritual slumber".

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  It's kind of official : "How we will respond if we are asked to preach a hard-hitting judgement message and unbelievers oppose us?"

  It is a quote from WT July 2023....so the Borg is preparing the RF for a final message and then perhaps.... they're going to stop preaching
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  Betty Georges - The Female Helper to the Governing Body

  by MillennialDawn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  betty georges is listed as a helper to the governing body service committee, according to this page on the website: https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body-jw-helpers/.

  anybody know anything about her?.

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  Just wait until GB 3.0 is fully in charge.... I'll bet $ 100 that is gonna be nu-light (remember Anna the prophetess in the NT and Deborah the judge in the OT), and presto, women would at least MS !

  There's no way the could fill the ranks of elders and MS without women!
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  Hailstone message.....June 23 WT

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  new jun 23 wt....elders to follow gideon example, even if instructions doesn't seems practical, gideon reduced army by 99 % and he obeyed, it could be changes in theocratic direction similar to this.

  what that means?.

  elders will need the courage to follow instructions "may relate to delivering a symbolic hailstone message...".. in another section "major world events may raise some from spiritual slumber".

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  New Jun 23 WT....elders to follow Gideon example, even if instructions doesn't seems practical, Gideon reduced army by 99 % and he obeyed, it could be changes in theocratic direction similar to this. What that means?

  Elders will need the courage to follow instructions "may relate to delivering a symbolic hailstone message...".

  In another section "major world events may raise some from spiritual slumber". And "we may lose with local branch or world headquarters...". ?

  Also "God's opposers will in some sense declare peace and security"

  The last (covering their tracks, as always), "whether we live through the great tribulation or die before"
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  Silicon Valley Bank bankruptcy....

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  didn't know silicon valley bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.

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  system seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. thoughts?.

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  CNN...."UBS agree to buy Credit Suisse for $ 3.25 billions, about 60 % less than the bank was worth when markets close Friday."

  I wonder what's gonna happen with the other handful of banks tomorrow Monday. Lucky guess, the government is taking the complete deposits (over $250 k) as insurable.

  Kinda weird how fast this situation is evolving.
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  What novels would you recommend?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).

  three by john ajvide lindqvist:.

  let the old dreams die.

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  Light reading? All the Agatha Christie novels, you know detective novels.

  More difficult, like "Brave New World" by Huxley.

  If you have the time (is always the time...) "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky...or "Light of August" by Faulkner...
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  Silicon Valley Bank bankruptcy....

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  didn't know silicon valley bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.

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  system seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. thoughts?.

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  mikeflood

  Didn't know Silicon Valley Bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.

  System seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. Thoughts?
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  Prediction of Watchtower in a Few Years

  by Foolednomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  kingdom halls will be the thing of the past.. conventions (mini assembly halls will still be going on) but will charge for attending and parking and always a donation.

  elders will play a much smaller role since csa.

  cart preaching will replace door to door.

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  Ohh...just one weekly meeting, as a consequence less KH. A bonus, one month your meeting is gonna be midweek, next Sundays. Preaching is gonna be mandatory as always, but just for campaigns several times a year.

  A wild guess, you are gonna be able to celebrate birthdays again, of course being circumspect.

  A big no, no for people to being in the WT is the amount of meetings and the celebration of birthdays
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  No more public WT & Awake?

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

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  Have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...I wonder how they are gonna spin that fact