agaj-nimm

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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
If whoever wrote the stretches of the Exodus that might read as genealogies in current translations, in a jarring discontinuity between fluent narrative just before and after them actually meant them as genealogies, I have my doubts. Did th
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
The fact that 100k years ago we could have seen 7 Pleiades with the naked eye but angles shifted since and now only 6, but unconnected traditions speak of 7 entities in tales of their origins may indicate we have had language far sooner tha
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
Let's start with "time period in which the old testament was composed" When was that exactly? I believe the oldest extant versions are from around 300 AD. We have a rough idea of when certain books might have been written, bu
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
El and Baal both mean something like 'lord'. We don't really know much about these entities. There are fragments of inscriptions that could be read as 'lord of the city' for example just as easily as naming some dei
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
I still see obvious mistakes, so not eliminated. The number of mistakes are also about the same. But more mistakes are harder to catch. The output is more polished and convoluted and that make errors harder to catch. I don't want that.
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
May be getting harder to catch the mistakes but that makes them worse in my view. I'd much rather they make easy to spot mistakes because I don't expect factuality from them anyway just speedy transformation of information I alrea
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
Ancient history scholarship is very accessible, most of it is published on periodicals that offer free download of articles. I recommend searching books and articles about 'canaanite religion' - the cult of El, Baal and Yaveh have
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
That's a bit of an oversimplification. I understand the historical value of genealogy but don't assume all past societies were uniformly practicing some form of entail and primogeniture. There is no definitive reading of scripture
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
Appreciate it but I'm already deeply into bible authorship. Many of my professors in college were bible scholars. Fascinating field really. Ancient history is much like astrophysics and cosmology. We know so very little and there are s
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
My read is that cor 13:12 is about seeing life from both sides, flesh and spirit. Some things are clearer on either side, and we learn from alternating.
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
Four years ago LLMs were sometimes amazing, sometimes wrong, sometimes a huge time sink when it's almost there and you try to herd the tokens but it's like herding cats. Just today I had the exact same experience. Every single tes
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
Have you read Patton's poem by that title? It's not great but it's a fascinating window into the beliefs of a major historical figure. In my experience there's a lot of support for reincarnation in judeo-christian script
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
It's been eye opening to read books from the Old Testament in the word-by-word translation of ancient Hebrew. A lot of the semantic accretion over the millennia comes off and you get a more raw iron age tribal wisdom glowing through. O
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
Trouble is, could take weeks or decades to play out. The entire human economy is a make believe system. I feel the need to state the obvious at times like this for the sake of my own sanity, not because I believe I can time the markets...
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by agaj-nimm 2mo ago
LLMs fudge. They don't "hallucinate", they don't "lie, cheat and steal", they don't "hack". There are no "agents" or "AI". It's a fuzzer exposing deep bugs in our cogniti