Viewing profile — agaj-nimm

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 …

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 th…

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 w…

[dead]

[dead]

[dead]

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 exampl…

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 a…

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…

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 'canaani…

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 primogen…

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 astrophysic…

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.

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…

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…

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 g…

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 o…

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 cognitive, social…