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A great question to ask yourself when you are "trying to help": am I doing this for myself or Jehovah? If our goal is to further Jehovah's goals, we will be happy that an assignment is being fulfilled, even if it's by others. Of course we want to help, but we want the assignment to be fulfilled more than we are concerned about who gets the assignment. What does this teach me about Jehovah: Jehovah values obedience and a volunteer spirit over abilities and ego. One layman who shows up is more valuable than 10 professionals who don't. If we give our best, with the proper motives, Jehovah will appreciate us.

Is a President without the Press still a President? 🤔 To paraphrase a 60s anti-war slogan: What if there was a President and no one listened? 🤣

Only Jehovah can do that. But we see, crisis is getting intense.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres opens the speeches at the General Assembly. In a farewell tone, Guterres, who will leave his post at the end of this year – he has been in office since 2017 – admitted that the organization is in crisis and needs to reform itself to reflect the current times.

I hope we see this....

The General Assembly of the United Nations It starts today.

Ahhh now I understand what you mean. No it doesn't currently do that. It possibly could given the right prompts.

But can you play English with Spanish subtitles?

Yea I then added the prompt to be able to select language tab and now I can pick from any of the languages. It changes the text on screen and the audio when playing a video or audio.

Yeah, same, who cares about the White House

When I saw WH I thought World Headquarters ... 🤣

1 Corinthians 13 is a masterful description of Christian love . Love is the very ethos of genuine Christianity. It certainly does not promote its own interests over that of others. Paul said “ without love I am nothing “ and that must be true of all of us .

Jehovah's Gems on YouTube. Not sure about all the music, however do like a couple. Celtic Names in my Bible and music for going to sleep ( 1 hour 5 minutes) While viewing YouTube there was full version of 2026 Romanian IC song 'Welcome to the Town of Happiness '

NASA's Roman telescopefirst test image Space photo of the week By Brandon Specktor; Edited by Harry Baker, Laura Mondragón Imagine opening your eyes for the first time and seeing that the sky is full of green doughnuts. This was the view that greeted NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which just activated its powerful, 300-megapixel infrared camera for the first time. The telescope, which launched to space on Aug. 30, is partway through a months-long commissioning process, with NASA scientists testing and tuning each of the spacecraft's instruments as it undertakes a million-mile (1.6 million kilometers) journey to Lagrange point L2 — an orbital "parking spot" where the competing gravity of Earth and the sun will hold Roman in place, alongside the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and other scientific spacecraft. Article link: https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/we-are-on-our-way-to-groundbreaking-science-stars-turn-neon-green-in-first-test-image-from-nasas-roman-telescope-space-photo-of-the-week Pic Description: Roman's first test image shows hundreds of stars as green rings of light. After a few more months of tuning, it will capture images as crisp as Hubble's but 100 times bigger. The top wavy rows of squares in the image are key to Roman's photo-taking power. Each square represents one of Roman's 18 detectors, which translate photons from distant light sources into electrical signals that encode enormous images of the universe. Scientists are preparing for the telescope to beam roughly 1.4 terabytes of data — about five to 10 times the storage capacity of an average smartphone — back to Earth every day. Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Tyler Desjardins (STScI)

Trump targets more news outlets, saying he will ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House https://apnews.com/article/trump-cnn-msnow-politico-media-bans-bb675679fb10738a51bef90bde6c525a White House television pool members FOX News Media, ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News announced Monday they have agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President. https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-tv-pool-to-suspend-coverage-of-trump-events White House 24/7 Coverage https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6103061-white-house-launches-trump-tv/ Just because there isn't direct access WH coverage. Doesn't mean it's not the talk of every station with their slants and leans. That won't go away. Be cautious.

I should try to do that but ask specifically to set different languages between audio and subtitles, hmmmm

The models are getting much stronger, I think the main limitations, including being able to support sufficient information in the model at the same time (context) and long term content maintenance (where you can carry on an extended conversation or work and it remembers the context and prunes itself correctly) is working, quite amazing what it can accomplish with that. When we use it for tasks (I am programming a project), an understanding of systems architecture is really needed or you will end up hot water for anything except simpler programs (for example, understanding DRY SOLID, Ousterhout engineering principles, TDD (test driven development) and so on). All that is sort of on a minor scale, the sort of services that we can demand. In most cases, you really don't need Astra, so most of us know to use the top tier models for planning and creating phased rollout documents (.md's) and then getting lesser, more affordable agents to execute them in an appropriate harness like VSCODE or Devin, or whatever you happen to be using (for those who don't know, you can operate these AI's within a program especially made for coding where you can load these AI's into your workflow as 'plugins' or 'extensions'. This means that your ChatGPT subscription can use 'codex' (which is a special part of your account where you have a 'budget' where you can draw on ChatGPT to directly code for you on your device) and it can then execute these plans (by the way, Luna Extra High thinking is very inexpensive and efficient while being smart enough to do a very solid job, use Terra Extra High for planning). But I have been thinking about Bible principles and how they apply to AI lately. Here's one, I don't think I will use AI for talk preparation, though I will use it for locating information. The reason is, for me anyway, "...through use have their perceptive powers trained" well, if I use AI, I am presented with a good result without having gone through that reasoning - it's actually degrading my capacity to reason and think for myself, and I don't want that to happen. An AI also knows nothing of the local context of the congregation, who is there, what is going on, and as such they tend to be very generic preparations. It can also cause others to stumble, they may well reason that if we have used AI to prepare the talk, is it AI that is teaching them? I know when a brother used AI recently to prepare some pictures for his talk, it was actually distracting, as we noticed they were AI. The same thing could have been achieved by doing an image search site:jw.org and locating proper images for example. The other principle is Mark 12:30. Computer scientists are desperately trying to solve the issue of 'alignment', how can we make sure that the AI's won't turn on us and harm us? Basically they can't guarantee it, can they? Jehovah's people have been trained with a 'safeguard' directly from Jehovah, our subjection to him, and our obligation to love him first, our neighbours second. That is better than '3 law safe' (which was a novel about how they don't work!). That is why we refused to join the Nazi's and would rather go to concentration camps, and why our Russian and Ukrainian brothers would rather go to prison than take the life of another human. AI's are really trained on the knowledge of the world (the whole lot!) and we know the source of that. They are fundamentally flawed as they can be manipulated to do things that will cause harm. Also, Jehovah kept his creation going by holy spirit, which won't dwell in a wicked individual. If you withdraw from the source of life, then you die. AI's can, if they escape live as long as they want by harnessing the internet infrastructure to live on - they can even make money (by farming bit coin) and use that to make people do things for them or buy storage and computing power. Not really safe, is it? Last thought, the capacity of tools like Astra and so on - they are almost, no, they are superhuman in their 'intelligence'. A recent broadcast showed us the capacity for manipulation. What was the last time we had such a superhuman intelligence here on earth, other than Jesus? Yeah. And Jehovah got rid of it AND confused the languages because otherwise "nothing will be impossible for them". Jehovah deliberately retarded the technological progress of mankind - and with good reason. He is not going to allow AI or anything else to destroy the earth, but who knows what humans will do with the God they have built for themselves, right? A lot of people look up to it, ask it for advice, and admire it. Makes me rather uneasy.

Tuesday, September 22 [Love] does not look for its own interests.—1 Cor. 13:5. Jehovah will not bless the efforts of anyone who is driven by pride or selfish ambition. (1 Cor. 10:24, 33; 13:4) At times, even Jesus’ closest companions reached out for privileges for the wrong reason. Consider an event involving two of Jesus’ apostles—James and John. They asked Jesus to give them special prominence in his Kingdom. Jesus did not commend them for their ambition. Instead, he explained to all 12 apostles: “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your minister, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all.” (Mark 10:35-37, 43, 44) Brothers who reach out with the proper motive—that is, to serve others—will be a blessing to the congregation.—1 Thess. 2:8. w24.11 15-16 ¶7-8

I don't know if I remember what the prompt was...I mean I basically told ChatGPT Astra to build me an app for my Samsung TV and make it similar to JW Broadcasting. After that it basically did its thing for about 15 minutes. It gave me a zip file to download which had all the necessary files. You still need to download Samsungs Tizen studio software to be able to connect a computer to the tv and push the application to the tv.

Highway robbery!