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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  He told the photographer "make me look good." So the photographer said "stand in those heavy shadows."
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

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  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  AI will definitely impact content creation, everything from music to art to cinema, to video games.

  Right now, there supposedly exists AI that can mimic a voice based on only a few seconds of "listening" to a person's speech. So if you are making an animated film, you would no longer need to hire voice actors for dozens -or hundreds- of hours of reading lines. You might only need them for a few hours. The cost savings would be significant.

  And, once you have a large enough database of live recordings, how long would it take to program an AI to create new and unique voices and speech patterns? How long before voice actors would be unnecessary?

  And with graphics engines like Unreal 5.2, you are close to having photorealistic video footage that renders in real-time, with the ability to apply rotoscoped facial animation to any characters you create. Again, build a library of faces and use AI to create unique faces from that library. Now you don't need actors at all.

  Do the same with music or even scriptwriting. How long before movie studios produce endless streams of content with little to no input from humans, allowing them to produce "entertainment" with almost no up-front cost?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  He can't kill himself. He promised Kim he'd still be taking her to court when he was in his 80s.
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  What Did the Following People Have in Common?

  by no-zombie in

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  2. bible

  what did the following people have in common?.

  1 job2 the widow of zaraphath3 naaman4 the samaritan leper (one of the 10 lepers)5 the roman army officer of capernaum6 cornelius and his guestsnone were ...israelitesjewish convertspart of the abrahamic covenantchristianspart of a christian congregationin a dedicated relationship with godorbaptizedhowever ...all were directly given holy spirit or individually blessed by god ... even though, they were not part of 'jehovah's organization'.take time to think what this really means.luke 4:24-29acts 10:34-35.

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  I think the GB would say that those were all "early JWs", in the sense that they served Jehovah faithfully or at least sought him out on their own. I do think it throws a wrench into the idea that only those who are baptized JWs have a hope for salvation.
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  Only baptised JWs will make it?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  i think it was a john cedars video or someone else’s where the point was brought up that only baptised jws will be saved?

  then one talk about kids of baptised jws hope they will make it but even them don’t know.

  most jws probably think that some good people who are not baptised may make it through, but this is not official teaching?.

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  I don't think I ever had that impression. People who had shown interest and were studying with JWs would be expected to survive Armageddon and get a chance to earn salvation.

  I wondered about the "only JWs" part because there were people out there who were good people, but they weren't JWs. Was Jehovah really going to wipe them out because they didn't answer the knock at the door?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Well, it turns out he was right about one thing: the Croatian court system has definitely slowed down.
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  If most labor is going to be done by robots, humans won't have to work.

  Except for the ones who design and build robots and program the AI.

  ...until they are replaced by robots.

  I think this is how the Matrix was actually born...
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  I guess Mome Wraths was right- there are more important things than Lloyd's lawsuit to worry about.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Maybe he is not mentioning it in order to give the Croatian Commando Units time to ambush the defendants before they have a chance to hide. Lloyd's next video will be the "perp walk" as the magnificent seven are paraded into criminal court!

  But --in the event that the impossible happened, and the case has been dismissed-- remember that Evans can still proceed with civil suits against the seven (or even the TWELVE) rapscallions who willfully and blatantly defamed his good and honorable name. He will need to start a gofundme, though, because paying for a Croatian Commando Unit on your own dime is QUITE expensive!
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  Why does a loving God need to settle moral issues with the Devil?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  bible teachings.

  bible questions answered.

  why did god allow the holocaust?.

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  That's a thorny question for me. Can we survive if god allows us to have free will? In the Bible, we are told that god wishes for all to be saved, but we are also told that the path to salvation is long and narrow, and that few walk it. So god, who wishes for all to be saved, knows that very few will be saved. Isn't this a failure on his part?

  The track record of free will is not encouraging. Apparently, every human being has sinned against god and at least a third of the angels, Satan included. Over a long enough time frame, the odds that everyone will cross god at some point are pretty even. Heaven will be a very lonely place.