The Best Spiritual Advice, Bing AI Can Love You?, New Schisms, & JK Rowling | The Simpleton Podcast

Clark and Laura share spiritual pitfalls to stay away from, share how Microsoft's "Sydney" Bing Chatbot is creeping the heck out of people, share conservative vs. liberal thoughts on state-funded education, and more in this wide-ranging episode of The Simpleton Podcast.

Also in this episode:
• Microsoft Bing Chatbot "Sydney" is in love with people
• Schisms in the modern-day Catholic Church
• J.K. Rowling and conservatives/liberals
• Truly, your spiritual problems have simple solutions
• Thomas AquinasGPT and Catholic Chatbots

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Chapters:
0:00 Start
1:16 Pitfalls of spiritual advice
2:04 The 80/20 rule (not the productivity version)
6:10 What's the purpose of spiritual formation?
10:09 Your problems have simple solutions
13:18 Being a supportive bystander (ASH's accountability meetings)
14:37 Schisms in the modern-day Catholic Church
20:45 The problem with ecumenism (and how to find common ground)
24:17 AI and verification problems
25:53 Sentient AI goes off the rails
33:40 AI is in love with you??
36:39 Microsoft's weird decisions behind its AI
37:39 The transhumanist movement behind AI
39:26 The AI revolution: education, white-collar jobs, & art
42:35 AI and fraud
47:56 How "Electric Dreams" (1984) predicted 2023
50:16 J.K. Rowling and conservatives/liberals
56:41 Jordan Peterson, state-funded education
59:16 Final final FINAL thoughts on AI

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