So there I am on Facebook scrolling my feed, the source of Truth. I came across a notorious character in the Utah tech scene. His name is Dave Bateman. I have only met him briefly in large groups and had a few exchanges with him on Messenger. He has only been kind to me so I choose to not posit much about who he is as a person. Google will allow you to go deep on his very public opinions and statements.
Interesting how it resisted giving you a percentage for all the other topics but had no problem offering up a big fat 0% for flat earth theory. Just an observation.
Great job forcing ChatGPT to assign probability percentages. It doesn't like to do it, and neither do humans. For an interesting read on why this is important, check out (ChatGPT it), Superforecasters, by Philip Tetlock, Chapters 5 and 6. There's a great story about how US security groups were imprecise in their language and how that caused issues ("There is a high likelihood of WMD in Iraq" vs "There is a 60% likelihood of WMD in Iraq").
Hi Scott, first, thanks for all your creative and entertaining posts. I'm loving it. I don't agree with everything you say, but I agree with a lot of it and it's fun to read about someone who lives on the other side of the planet (I'm from South Africa).
Secondly, if you really want to do a deeper dive into whether Jesus was resurrected, I can recommend a book "The Case for Christ", or the movie by the same name.
It is the true life story of an award-winning, investigative journalist. He was an atheist. His wife becomes a Christian and he believes she has been brain-washed, so he sets out to disprove Christianity to save her from the "cult" she's entangled. The movie is really great, not one of those cheesy Christian movies of the past. I hope you'll give it a try. I loved it!
Scott, applying your same Chat GPT logic, I don’t think you can conclude from Dave Bateman’s post that he believes the flat earth theory. He clearly says, “you haven’t lived unless you do a deep dive…” indicating that the deep dive will be enjoyable, not that he necessarily believes. The part that confuses you into believing he believes is his statement about real truthseekers, but he might be saying that if you are a real truth seeker, you should make up your own mind about whether the earth is flat after you do your deep dive. So it looks to me like he was just being lazy/careless/fast in writing the post, as many of us sometimes are. I get it. These conspiracy deep dives ARE super fun. I went down the rabbit hole on the “inner earth people” for like a month, and absolutely loved telling my friends about it to the point that my domestic partner was ready to kill me if she heard me talk about it again. But I never believed. I just thought the whole thing was really cool, like watching “The Expanse.”. After reading about an NJ town official who embezzled money for years and then took off to Vegas OJ-style, in a white Cherokee, and got caught by stupidly using his credit card to buy gas all the way across the country, I became obsessed with thinking through how you would actually disappear in plain sight if you had to (the bottom line is that it’s nearly impossible). But I have no plans of embezzling money, or trying to disappear.
I am wildly entertained and … challenged by Dave’s posts. Some of them - actually make me stop, think, and consider possibilities and then some I just have to enjoy the entertainment of the comments.
As a person that challenges anlmost anything the government claims and forces upon us as truth - I appreciate just how far people will go sometimes. Being a military family and seeing and learning some crazy stuff through the years … I just really enjoy those who think outside of the boxes forced upon them.
9/11 was a total inside job and the big man upstairs totally rose from the dead - just never wondered what “they” did with his actual body 😋 I’ve seen and communicated with spirits after they passed so that one isn’t as far fetched for me as the flat earth one.
I so enjoy your posts, Scott. Maybe someday I’ll come back to Utah and meet you. Have not been back since I quit working for the company Dave used to own.
Interesting how it resisted giving you a percentage for all the other topics but had no problem offering up a big fat 0% for flat earth theory. Just an observation.
Great job forcing ChatGPT to assign probability percentages. It doesn't like to do it, and neither do humans. For an interesting read on why this is important, check out (ChatGPT it), Superforecasters, by Philip Tetlock, Chapters 5 and 6. There's a great story about how US security groups were imprecise in their language and how that caused issues ("There is a high likelihood of WMD in Iraq" vs "There is a 60% likelihood of WMD in Iraq").
Hi Scott, first, thanks for all your creative and entertaining posts. I'm loving it. I don't agree with everything you say, but I agree with a lot of it and it's fun to read about someone who lives on the other side of the planet (I'm from South Africa).
Secondly, if you really want to do a deeper dive into whether Jesus was resurrected, I can recommend a book "The Case for Christ", or the movie by the same name.
It is the true life story of an award-winning, investigative journalist. He was an atheist. His wife becomes a Christian and he believes she has been brain-washed, so he sets out to disprove Christianity to save her from the "cult" she's entangled. The movie is really great, not one of those cheesy Christian movies of the past. I hope you'll give it a try. I loved it!
Have a great day, and thanks for all the fun!
Scott, applying your same Chat GPT logic, I don’t think you can conclude from Dave Bateman’s post that he believes the flat earth theory. He clearly says, “you haven’t lived unless you do a deep dive…” indicating that the deep dive will be enjoyable, not that he necessarily believes. The part that confuses you into believing he believes is his statement about real truthseekers, but he might be saying that if you are a real truth seeker, you should make up your own mind about whether the earth is flat after you do your deep dive. So it looks to me like he was just being lazy/careless/fast in writing the post, as many of us sometimes are. I get it. These conspiracy deep dives ARE super fun. I went down the rabbit hole on the “inner earth people” for like a month, and absolutely loved telling my friends about it to the point that my domestic partner was ready to kill me if she heard me talk about it again. But I never believed. I just thought the whole thing was really cool, like watching “The Expanse.”. After reading about an NJ town official who embezzled money for years and then took off to Vegas OJ-style, in a white Cherokee, and got caught by stupidly using his credit card to buy gas all the way across the country, I became obsessed with thinking through how you would actually disappear in plain sight if you had to (the bottom line is that it’s nearly impossible). But I have no plans of embezzling money, or trying to disappear.
I am wildly entertained and … challenged by Dave’s posts. Some of them - actually make me stop, think, and consider possibilities and then some I just have to enjoy the entertainment of the comments.
As a person that challenges anlmost anything the government claims and forces upon us as truth - I appreciate just how far people will go sometimes. Being a military family and seeing and learning some crazy stuff through the years … I just really enjoy those who think outside of the boxes forced upon them.
9/11 was a total inside job and the big man upstairs totally rose from the dead - just never wondered what “they” did with his actual body 😋 I’ve seen and communicated with spirits after they passed so that one isn’t as far fetched for me as the flat earth one.
I so enjoy your posts, Scott. Maybe someday I’ll come back to Utah and meet you. Have not been back since I quit working for the company Dave used to own.