as a waiter in a past life this doesn’t really help a lot. i didn’t double check your order, you are potentially in the way. if you drop shit you are fucking up so much i’d be kicking your ass out that door and you are on the list.

You apparently don’t understand the Problem of Evil. I’m not asking why would he kill his daughter. I’m saying why did God accept human sacrifice as payment for beefing up his army? God knew payment would be given and then performed the task. God could have not beefed up the army. He could have not rendered services, and yet he did. He accepted human sacrifice as payment plain and simple.

An eternity of bliss? I think you mean spending all eternity remembering how she was brutally murdered. Will see see her dad there? Because that is some PTSD triggering shit waiting to happen. And being around God all the time knowing that your last moments on earth could have been totally different but God needed a good story for his book so she gets her throat cut all for her dad to gain more riches. That’s horrible.

No I’m not blaming God in those instances. I’m saying that God steps in and causes punishment TO THE OFFENDERS. And yet in the case of Jephthah no only is he not punished, God grants his wish and then doesn’t reject payment.

It’s not really a Problem of Evil situation. Its about God taking payment for services rendered when the payment is evil. The fact God was with him before doesn’t matter because God already knew what the payment would be. It would be the equivalent of me telling someone I’m going to pay you to off someone and you overhearing. You decide to take the job before I actually ask you in person. When I ask you to do you you never say no, you perform the act and then I pay you. How is that not services performed for payment? You had the opportunity to not take the job. You had the opportunity to tell me you’d do it for free. Instead you did the job knowing fully well I’d pay you.

As for the heaven, you’re skipping the important part. Jephthah told his daughter he was going to kill her. Not in the moment but months before it would happen. She woke up every day knowing soon she was going to be killed by her father. Every time they saw each other they thought about that future moment. She couldn’t make plans because soon her father was going to kill her. She was a dead woman walking.

Then when the day came it wasn’t some quick, painless put you to sleep kind of act. Burnt offerings were a specific ritual. You bleed out the offering. She probably laid there choking on her own blood with her father looking down at her. All for the sake of allowing her father to win a war. He could have sacrificed himself, could have disobeyed God. But instead she was laying there dying for her father to win.

My point of the other scenarios, they are all examples where God stepped in and changed the natural order of things. None of those people were dying. God turn a woman to salt, took control of bears to eat children, smite a guy. God has the ability to step in and change reality and yet here he didn’t knowing full well before any of it happening what would transpire. To equate this to the image, God nudged the bullet knowing full well the firefighter was going to be killed. He could have nudged it in any other direction, could have given the shooter a heart attach, could have let it hit the Cheeto. But instead he performed the necessary action to make someone else be killed.

It is odd that God never stops these horrible acts. Especialy the ones where the one being harmed isn’t the one fucking up. The daughter is killed when she did nothing wrong.

The whole book of Judges is essentially “Here’s what not to do”.

Pretty messed up that the only way to teach this lesson is to kill an innocent girl and set her on fire. You would think an all powerful being was more capable than that.

Not once did God command him to offer up his daughter. He decided to try and work for God’s support, and to try and earn it. But it bit him back harshly.

Here is where the BS comes in. Throughout the book God stops people from doing things. He kills people who sin, makes them fall out of favor with their tribe, stops their actions. None of that happens here. God helps win the battle knowing an innocent girl will be murdered that serves no purpose and God is complacent.

Pull out early instead of impregnating your sister in law, God kills you. Make fun of a bald guy, God kills you. Turn around to look at your home being destroyed, God kills you. I guess having a warmongering father is worth your life too. There just wasn’t anything God could do.

You are skipping the part where God knows all before it happens and nothing can go against God’s plan. God beefed up that army knowing full well the eventual outcome, the human sacrifice in his honor. he did nothing about it.

first thing that came out of his house. (not his daughter

God knew what was coming through that door

Ican’t fathom how someone, even given a perfect model of every cell in my body, could predict whether or not I will scratch my nose within the next minute.

so your argument is just personal incredulity?

The issue is not about choice. It is about control. Your next action is purely dependant on the current state of your brain and the stimuli around you. Where is the part that isn’t controlled by this system? How did you cause your brain to be exactly how it is right this moment? Was it not a cause of your previous brain state and the stimuli in the previous moment? How can you shown it’s not turtles all the way down?

The chaos comment is not really relevant. Chaos isn’t choice, I only brought it up to show that at the level of our brains and the interactions we have there isn’t anything random. A world rewound would produce the same outcome.

30 Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

31 then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

– Judges 11

Then the dude kills his daughter and now modern Christians come up with silly excuses as to why they don’t worship evil.

Oh I was refering to Jephthah asking God to make his army win a war and in return he would kill his daughter and then set her on fire. God said hell yeah!

i have yet to see any evidence thatethere is anything that overcomes the deterministic nature of the universe. the rare bit of chaos we get from quantum mechanics is washed away by the law of large numbers.

I would expect nothing less from a god who sells power ups for the low cost of human sacrificing your daughter.

you just need to keep a shit list of brands that are now dead to you.

i think that is a very important observation. people want to gloss over that when it might be the most important thing to talk about.

I’m wondering when i go to the library and read a book, does this mean i can never become an author as I’m tainted? Or am I only tainted if I stole the book?

To me this is only a theft case.

That sounds like a setup to only go after those you can make money from and not actually protecting IP.

By definition if your song is a hit it is heard by everyone. How do we show my new song is a direct consequence of hearing X song while your new song isn’t due to you hearing X song?

I can see an easy lawsuit by putting out a song and then claiming that anyone who heard it “learned” how to play their new album this way. The fact AI can output something that sounds different than any individual song it learned from means we can claim nearly all works derivative.

So then anyone who uses a computer to make music would be in violation?

Or is it some amount of computer generated content? How many notes? If its not a sample of a song, how does one know how much of those notes are attributed to which artist being stolen from?

What if I have someone else listen to a song and they generate a few bars of a song for me? Is it different that a computer listened and then generated output?

To me it sounds like artists were open to some types of violations but not others. If an AI model listened to the radio most of these issues go away unless we are saying that humans who listen to music and write similar songs are OK but people who write music using computers who calculate the statistically most common song are breaking the law.

the slippery slope here is that you as an artist hear music on the radio, in movies and TV, commercials. All this hearing music is training your brain. If an AI company just plugged in an FM radio and learned from that music I’m sure that a lawsuit could start to make it that no one could listen to anyone’s music without being tainted.

my first linux install was on a 486 from a box of floppies we got at a computer convention in the late 90s. Back then you had to do all sorts of crazy setup steps like figuring out drive layouts and screen frequencies. It was craziness but when you’re 13 and want to tinker with computers that’s what you did.