Posts by TonusOH

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Hawaii- Victim Abused by JW Elder Awarded $40 Million

by Newly Enlightened in

https://youtu.be/h0fwwtemmvi.

TonusOH

Plaintiff's lawyer: "The case was initially against the Jehovah's Witnesses and that part of the case settled"

The $40 million judgment is against the individual, not the WTS. Even if it's upheld, she probably won't see much. The settlement with the WTS would almost certainly include an NDA, so she cannot reveal the particulars, including any amounts paid.

The settlement avoids the risk of a large award and (more important to the WTS) a precedent being set regarding their liability in such cases. The publicity hurts a lot, though. More victims may be encouraged to step forward and speak up, or file civil suits of their own.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses Open Historic Museum in Edo

by Bangalore in

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friends

jehovah’s witnesses open historic museum in edo .. https://punchng.com/jehovahs-witnesses-open-historic-museum-in-edo/.

TonusOH

Atlantis: When did Jesus have a Museum?

Maybe someone misread "mausoleum."

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Is AI going to change the world?

by Reasonfirst in

jw
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.

TonusOH

TD: Human writers, both male and female struggle to create believable characters of the opposite gender.

Oh, I don't expect AI to completely replace human writers/actors for a while (or, possibly, ever). But there is a lot of derivative and awful work being produced by people today (sometimes at considerable expense). AI could be used to produce "filler" work- derivative crap designed mostly to earn a bit of cash with a relatively tiny expenditure. And all the while, it can be refined and upgraded and improved.

I'm not sure that AI can ever replace human writers and actors from a standpoint of creative uniqueness, so to speak (see my comment previous to this one). But it can produce waves of canned content that might generate enough profit to keep production companies solvent, which will allow them to churn out even more content. I'd despair for our future, but a perusal of YouTube reminds me that unoriginal crap is not in short supply even now.

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Is AI going to change the world?

by Reasonfirst in

jw
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.

TonusOH

This could work out for certain creative people, in that there are plenty of options for building a support structure that is uniquely yours. If my art or animations or writing generate interest and I can build a following, that can provide an artist/writer with income even when their work appears to be drowned out by AI-generated spam. Even if your work gets incorporated into the algorithms somehow, you still have a way to monetize your work and grow your following.

Meanwhile, the people and companies generating massive amounts of poor-quality content that all begins to look the same are only able to generate very small amounts of income, since the money is split so many ways and begins to dry up as potential buyers decide that it's not worth it to pay repeatedly for the same content. So perhaps this is a problem that will, for a short time anyway, fix itself.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

pr0ner: He is so delusional right now he thinks a big win is making some Hollywood style shots and slapping them on a banner.

I agree with LMsA that it looks like he is rebuilding his brand, so it is less about JW-specific content and more about him and his interests. It is possible that he is realizing that a following largely made up of people who were/are religious fundamentalists is not going to accept his casual approach to marriage and promiscuous sex. It is also possible that he doesn't realize that any other group he might try to attract will see him in much the same way.

If he thinks that he can build a following of atheists and that they'll be fine with the way he treats people, he is likely in for a rude surprise. It's not only exJWs who don't like to be around obnoxious, self-centered blowhards. Any new direction he takes will go the same way- he will mistreat people and burn bridges and cry persecution when they expose him. It's just a question of how many communities he can alienate before he's done.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

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

jw
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.

TonusOH

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

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

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

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.

TonusOH

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

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?.

TonusOH

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?