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Cake day: December 26th, 2023

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  • Gnostic / Agnostic is simply a claim about knowledge.

    I’m agnostic as to whether my bread is stale. (I don’t know if my bread is stale).

    I’m gnostic about the planets shape (I know it’s a dodecahedron).

    Theist / Atheist is a claim about belief.

    Every person fits into one of the following:

    • A Gnostic Theist claims to know God exists (therefore implicitly believing)

    • A Gnostic Atheist claims to know God doesn’t exist.

    • An Agnostic Theist believes in God but doesn’t have sufficient evidence to make definitive claims.

    • An Agnostic Atheist doesn’t have sufficient evidence to make claims about God, and therefore doesn’t believe.

    In terms of rationale, both Gnostic groups make definitive claims without sufficient evidence and should not be trusted.

    The Gnostic Theists believe in something without evidence, this is a fallacy, but it’s something we all do every day. For example, I don’t know if it will rain, but I believe it might, so I bring an umbrella.

    An Agnostic Atheist is the most rational. If you don’t have sufficient evidence to make a definitive claim, then why would you believe it?








  • Had this explained once, I might miss a detail, but it’s like this:

    The only way not to drain your battery is to program in selective key words.

    “But then its always listening” yes, but also, no.

    Imagine someone speaking into a microphone, and seeing their voice bounce around on a oscilloscope.

    This compresses the audio a LOT, and makes it very difficult to discern the differences between words.

    But if you were trained to notice the pattern for a specific word, like “Siri”, then you could ignore all the other shapes, conserving your battery.