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AI and Directives

September 21, 2023

Interesting conversation about the developments in AI here:   ‎The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Should we press pause on AI? on Apple Podcasts Some of

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Luke 13 and 14

September 21, 2023

Reading through Luke in my Bible time and I’m noticing a theme jumping out at me.  Luke 13 Fig tree that doesn’t produce fruit- give it

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.