Government shutdown, day 22: suffering is leverage for some.

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12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
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24. 1:10Mac over here, there's a J Mack on Colin Cowlesiherd
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29. 1:21We're ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program.
30. 1:27At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part-time jobs
31. 1:32or you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
32. 1:36And as you do so, I want to remind you that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
33. 1:44It's more important than what goes on in the Capitol Hill where you have the Democrat whip saying,
34. 1:48thing. Hey, don't be mad at us. This is one of the few times that we have leverage referring
35. 1:55to the government shutdown. Still waiting to see the lying media go apple plexig over the
36. 2:03government shutdown because you know, and other times, can you ever and I said this a couple
37. 2:10of shows ago. Do you ever recall a time when there's been a government shutdown when the
38. 2:14government shutdown has not been the leading news on all the legacy news media outlets?
39. 2:19She'd called you to wonder why aren't they covering it extensively this time?
40. 2:29But what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
41. 2:32You know, a great example of that is in the conversation I had with Marie-Elite yesterday,
42. 2:37some of you may recall, we were talking about Aisha Curry and she said, well, we're so young,
43. 2:41I didn't really know what I was getting into.
44. 2:44Do you remember that?
45. 2:48And I just, man, I know we live in the fallen world.
46. 2:52come from all kinds of backgrounds.
47. 2:54I believe she's from Canada, I think,
48. 2:57if I'm right about that.
49. 2:58I think she is, would you look that up for me?
50. 2:59Or one of you guys?
51. 3:01I think she's from Canada.
52. 3:02But my point here is that for the Kingdom of God,
53. 3:06we should have intentionality.
54. 3:08We should have disciple making should be
55. 3:14at the forefront of our engagement.
56. 3:16Yes, J. Macca's confirmed.
57. 3:17She is from Canada.
58. 3:19A, maple syrup and hockey pucks for you.
59. 3:24as we invest ourselves in executing the Lord's commission
60. 3:29and making disciples, one of the major conversations
61. 3:32we should have.
62. 3:33I'll just tell you, this is one of the things
63. 3:36that we talk about with the young men in our local assembly,
64. 3:38because we know that God does call something
65. 3:41to a vocation of singleness.
66. 3:43That is just by observation, more than likely gonna be
67. 3:48the more rare experience.
68. 3:51But we spend time talking about it.
69. 3:52One of the things that we should do as young men
70. 3:54to see God as to whether or not his will for us is to be married.
71. 3:56And if that is the case, which usually will be the case
72. 3:58and it is your God's will for you to be married,
73. 4:01then we should invest ourselves
74. 4:03into seeking to be worthy of a wife.
75. 4:06We talk extensively about the responsibility
76. 4:08of being the head of our wives and leading families.
77. 4:13Are we developing ourselves as young men
78. 4:15to be worthy to be followed?
79. 4:19That's the conversation that we have.
80. 4:22We have a similar conversation with our young ladies.
81. 4:24The Bible says he that finds a wife
82. 4:26finds a good thing.
83. 4:27The quality of the wife is present before the young man, before the perspective groom finds
84. 4:32her.
85. 4:33I'm saying young man, not always young man, but the quality of wifeliness is present when
86. 4:37the perspective groom finds her.
87. 4:40So similarly to our young lady seeking the Lord concerning his will for you to be married,
88. 4:45are you developing and growing in the qualities of a godly wife?
89. 4:54That is, and we take very seriously the reality that God does call some to the vocation of
90. 5:00singleness to which we again affirm the fact that the vocation of singleness is
91. 5:07accompanied by the gift of celibacy. Yeah, but those are the types of
92. 5:18conversation that needs to happen so that you avoid the you know that you
93. 5:23should curry phenomena. Oh, I don't know. It's just living in. Oh, I had all of the I
94. 5:27was living and working for these things and or something just interrupted my entire
95. 5:31life against my will. I had no say so whatsoever in this. And now I'm in therapy with millions
96. 5:39in the bank and not a care in the world except the cares that I create. And let's get to the
97. 5:46word of God before I get myself in more trouble than I'm already in. Second Timothy, Chapter
98. 5:502 is where we're going to go today. Second Timothy, Chapter 2, verses 1 through 3. Second
99. 5:58Timothy 2 verses 1 through 3.
100. 6:03You'll remember this is one of the latter epistles
101. 6:05from the Apostle Paul written to Timothy shortly
102. 6:07before his ultimate execution under Nero and the Roman Empire.
103. 6:14The Apostle Paul is incarcerated at the time of writing this
104. 6:19by the Spirit of God,
105. 6:20but this is what the Lord says through him.
106. 6:21Second Timothy chapter two, verse one,
107. 6:24you therefore, my son, be strong in the grace
108. 6:29that is in Christ Jesus.
109. 6:33The things which you have heard from me
110. 6:36in the presence of many witnesses
111. 6:39entrust these to faithful men
112. 6:42who will be able to teach others also.
113. 6:46Suffer hardship with me
114. 6:49as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
115. 6:53Now I wanted to point to this portion of scripture
116. 6:55because the Apostle Paul is addressing something here
117. 6:59that is counterintuitive to a degree.
118. 7:02It cuts against what we might expect in our context.
119. 7:09As the Apostle Paul is incarcerated,
120. 7:12awaiting, as you've heard me describe before,
121. 7:13in imminent, albeit uncertain execution,
122. 7:16it's imminent because he knows it's coming.
123. 7:19He knows it's coming.
124. 7:20When he writes his Epistle to the Philippians,
125. 7:22he talks about knowing that the day of his departure is nigh.
126. 7:26He knows it's coming,
127. 7:27although he doesn't know which day that is going to come.
128. 7:32He also knows that young Timothy was,
129. 7:37well say young Timothy wasn't as young at this juncture,
130. 7:40but Timothy was beginning to be a bit kind of shaky
131. 7:43a little bit, which is why he wrote in verse seven
132. 7:46of the previous chapter, for the Lord has not given you
133. 7:48a spirit of deliyat, that's the Greek word,
134. 7:51timidity, a spirit of fear, but of power and love
135. 7:54and to sound mind because the reality is,
136. 7:57is real in the field.
137. 7:58You know, your commitment to Christ has landed you in Nero's prison awaiting execution.
138. 8:04And here I am expressing a similar commitment to Christ.
139. 8:06That could cause people to become introspective.
140. 8:08It's okay if that happens in a temporary sense as long as we don't stay there, as long as
141. 8:15we don't stay there.
142. 8:16So Paul is encouraging Timothy and then he continues on to say, listen, yes, I am suffering,
143. 8:22but the cause for which I am suffering is worthy.
144. 8:27So Timothy join me in this.
145. 8:29When he says suffer hardship with me, it's a Greek term that literally means become a joint
146. 8:33sufferer.
147. 8:34Share in this suffering because the cause is worthy.
148. 8:42The most immediate takeaway is that the difficulty of Paul's immediate circumstances does not detract
149. 8:49from the necessity of still making disciples.
150. 8:55Paul says that the things that you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust
151. 9:00the faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
152. 9:02What Paul is saying is that the work doesn't stop.
153. 9:07The circumstances may be difficult.
154. 9:08The circumstances may be challenging, but the work doesn't stop.
155. 9:14Why am I setting this out?
156. 9:15There is really a natural disposition, and I would say a cultural expectation even for when
157. 9:22things get difficult that we downshift into neutral.
158. 9:26When things become challenging, we downshift into neutral.
159. 9:30don't take me to be saying something that I am not saying. When difficulties arise, there
160. 9:35are circumstances that arise that have to be confronted, they have to be dealt with, but
161. 9:38we cannot allow ourselves to become so consumed in the circumstances that we voluntarily take
162. 9:44ourselves off of the chessboard of executing our King's commission. Again, Paul says, you
163. 9:53therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. It's always healthy
164. 9:59to be reminded of the fact that the grace, the empowerment, the
165. 10:04chirest, the ability to execute what God requires of us, it is not
166. 10:08within ourselves. You know, this kind of pagan mystic, narcissistic
167. 10:14environment that we're in that consistently encourages people,
168. 10:18look within the strength is within you know what ain't the strength
169. 10:21is within God. And if you are born again, he indwells you by his
170. 10:27spirit, but the strength is not yours by ownership, it is his.
171. 10:32Which is why Paul encourages Timothy to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
172. 10:40The same applies to us.
173. 10:42Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
174. 10:48Then Paul gives Timothy practical guidelines.
175. 10:52The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust these
176. 10:57to faithful men. That means guys, the discipline of disciple making, if you will, requires
177. 11:06the prospective disciples to be keen and discerning good ground to invest in.
178. 11:16Heen is in discerning good ground to investing to invest in is a skill that is developed
179. 11:22in a disciple maker. To where we examine where there is a hunger. Some of you who are listening
180. 11:32listening to me right now, you have had that experience.
181. 11:34It may be a younger believer, but they've demonstrated a hunger
182. 11:38for truth, a desire to grow.
183. 11:41More than likely that is an indication that this person
184. 11:45is good soil, you'll have they displayed characteristics
185. 11:48of faithfulness.
186. 11:52And one time we had a men's Bible study,
187. 11:55and you had this one young cat, he was always there first,
188. 11:57early, always there first, early.
189. 12:01That's an indication.
190. 12:02This young brother is hungry.
191. 12:04No matter what's going on in life, he's there early.
192. 12:06This young brother is hungry.
193. 12:08Pour in, pour in, entrust these two faithful men
194. 12:13who will be able to teach others also.
195. 12:15The work continues, man.
196. 12:18Even though we're in an environment and in the circumstance
197. 12:20where it's challenging.
198. 12:22I continue to beat this drum because it is the drum worth beating.
199. 12:27That if we set ourselves in our nation
200. 12:30to be exhausted on political engagement,
201. 12:32but we are not making disciples, guys,
202. 12:35We are missing the, we're, we're missing a huge component.
203. 12:41I would argue we're missing the most enduring component.
204. 12:47And I, and I feel like I need to explain this every time.
205. 12:51This is not to denigrate civic engagement.
206. 12:53We need Godly people running for office.
207. 12:55We need Christ followers voting for guys.
208. 12:58We need Christ followers making disciples.
209. 13:03We need more than just Monday morning quarterbacks that can diagnose all the
210. 13:08world's problems, but won't lift a finger to respond in the way that God called us to.
211. 13:15It is God who has said that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they're not, but
212. 13:22they have divine power.
213. 13:23They are mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds, for the demolishing of castles
214. 13:31in the mines.
215. 13:32I was in a place one time when the guys say, man, Abe, I have a hard time understanding
216. 13:39the scripture because everywhere I look, it seems like darkness is winning.
217. 13:44And I just asked a simple question.
218. 13:45When the scripture says that the weapons of our warfare
219. 13:47are not carnal, but they are divinely powerful,
220. 13:50what weapons do you tend to employ?
221. 13:52He was like, what?
222. 13:55Yeah, you see all the things that are happening.
223. 13:57How has God been moving you to respond to it?
224. 14:03You often say that our responsibility
225. 14:06to execute the King's Commission starts at our home,
226. 14:08but it's not limited to our home.
227. 14:11Some of us literally need to invest ourselves
228. 14:14into responding to the need,
229. 14:16to the people that are immediately around us.
230. 14:22Our cities, our communities are filled with people who need guidance,
231. 14:26who need instruction, who need discipleship.
232. 14:33The harvest is plentiful, but the labors are few.
233. 14:39Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he was in laborers into his harvest field.
234. 14:45Guys, this is not something the world is going to do.
235. 14:48In fact, the world is incapable of doing it.
236. 14:52But guess who is equipped?
237. 14:54The Lord's remnant.
238. 15:00a discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
239. 15:03The Ten Commandments are the moral law of God.
240. 15:08Well, that's Old Testament.
241. 15:09Well, keep in mind, the moral law of God does not change.
242. 15:13And the fact is some of the biggest challenges
243. 15:15we're dealing with in our culture, in our world today,
244. 15:19are a direct result of people violating
245. 15:21the clear counsel of the Ten Commandments.
246. 15:24We think of the tragedy of abortion.
247. 15:26The Bible clearly tells us, you shall not murder.
248. 15:30God's word is so clear.
249. 15:33Did you know murder is never in order
250. 15:35under any circumstances,
251. 15:36not through abortion or through any other means,
252. 15:38yet sadly we live in a world that tries to say,
253. 15:41well under certain circumstances, murder is okay.
254. 15:45Many try to say that one of those circumstances
255. 15:47is because of abortion.
256. 15:49Remember God's word does not change
257. 15:52and it's important that we as the people of God
258. 15:54are clear, boldly clear on that reality.
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281. 17:07this is the Hamilton Corner,
282. 17:09an American family radio.
283. 17:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
284. 17:13Abraham Hamilton the third here.
285. 17:16You know, it's interesting when we have people
286. 17:21who would say, well, this is my idea,
287. 17:23that is my idea.
288. 17:25Why are they doing this?
289. 17:26Why are they accomplishing this?
290. 17:27And then you just keep listening and they tell you.
291. 17:33So you have Katherine Clark, who is the Democrat Whip
292. 17:36in the House of Representatives.
293. 17:39She represents Massachusetts' fifth congressional district.
294. 17:45And she was in an interview on television news.
295. 17:50Hahaha.
296. 17:53And oh boy, they cannot help it.
297. 17:56They cannot help it.
298. 17:58She said something that I don't think the overlords in the donkey party would necessarily want her saying out loud at this juncture, even though they say it amongst themselves all the time you can anticipate.
299. 18:12She was discussing in this interview the reality of the government shutdown. Here we are. The government was shut down. October 1st was the genesis of the government shutdown. Here we are.
300. 18:2322 days in just by way of reminder, the longest government shutdown in American history.
301. 18:31American history was 35 days.
302. 18:34That took place from December 22nd, 2018 to January 25th, 2019.
303. 18:40That's the longest on record.
304. 18:42So we're 13 days shy of the longest government shutdown in American history.
305. 18:48And a couple of things I just want to say about this.
306. 18:53The proposed continued resolution that was offered to avert this government shutdown,
307. 18:58that's described as the CleanCR, was only scheduled to fund the government through November
308. 19:0521st.
309. 19:06So, we have entered an entirely new conversation because the votes that are being taken, and
310. 19:17I believe it was the 12th or 13th, vote in the House of Representatives to invoke cloture,
311. 19:24to proceed to a vote for the CR on the merits was, was, was, was, it failed because it got
312. 19:3255 votes. You need 60 votes to invoke cloture, which is the way that you overcome the filibuster,
313. 19:43which I remind, would remind you all that is not in the US Constitution. There is not,
314. 19:48there was no amendment ratified by the people to adopt the filibuster in the US Senate.
315. 19:55This was a decision solely made by senators in the body.
316. 19:58And I would remind you that the rules governing the US Senate can be changed at any moment in
317. 20:04the US Senate by a majority vote.
318. 20:10Did you hear that?
319. 20:12Guess what Republicans have in the US Senate right now?
320. 20:16That would be a majority.
321. 20:19That means that the Republicans in the US Senate, should they choose to do so?
322. 20:25They could change the filibuster rules.
323. 20:28You know, the original filibuster required a US senator to actually be at the lectern in
324. 20:32speaking for the duration of the employment of the filibuster.
325. 20:40But the rules changed magically.
326. 20:42I wonder how this happened to where now a senator just has to say, um, I would like to filibuster
327. 20:48and you go on.
328. 20:52So what's going on right now, truly is not an active filibuster.
329. 20:55It's nothing other than the Republicans not having the 60 votes needed to invoke culture
330. 21:00in a proceed to vote on the merits because the House
331. 21:03representatives have already passed the same bill that they
332. 21:05passed several months back, which highlights the problem
333. 21:08with the continuing resolution process anyway, because at
334. 21:11any time a motivated minority of US senators could stop the
335. 21:15whole process. And anytime. So the funding measure that the
336. 21:22House representatives passed would only fund the government
337. 21:26through to November 21. So now the conversation has to include
338. 21:32funding beyond November 21st.
339. 21:38Now, there's a debate that's raging that says,
340. 21:41well, what if we pass the measure and we fund the government
341. 21:44continually through November 21st and we pass the measure now
342. 21:47to leave room to debate these other items?
343. 21:50But the question then becomes,
344. 21:51where is that enough time between now,
345. 21:53it's the October 22nd and November 21st?
346. 21:56Is just less than a month away?
347. 22:00So with all of that happening all at the exact same time,
348. 22:05Katherine Clark is being interviewed
349. 22:08and she said, this is just remarkable.
350. 22:17What I heard is I couldn't believe she said this,
351. 22:19but she said it out loud.
352. 22:21She said, yeah, the fellow, not the fellow,
353. 22:24but it's just shut down, this is Abe's paraphrase, right?
354. 22:26I'm gonna play the clips in here for you, so.
355. 22:28But Abe's paraphrase is, yeah, the shutdown is very,
356. 22:33very sad, it's very sad, it's sad.
357. 22:36Look at my sand face, Bobby.
358. 22:39It's very sad.
359. 22:41But it's one of the only leverage points that we have.
360. 22:44You know, we're in a minority.
361. 22:46You know, the American people said they wanted a Republican
362. 22:49majority in the House and the Senate,
363. 22:51and they wanted a Republican in the White House.
364. 22:54It's one of the only leverage points we have.
365. 22:55So what does a doggy party to do?
366. 22:59Listen to and watch.
367. 23:00Clip number one, clip one, go.
368. 23:02I mean, shutdowns are terrible.
369. 23:04And of course, there will be families that are going to suffer.
370. 23:10We take that responsibility very seriously.
371. 23:14But it is one of the few leveraged times we have.
372. 23:18Oh, we take this responsibility very, very seriously.
373. 23:25Yes, Mommy, I went to party very seriously.
374. 23:28But it's one of the only leverage points we have.
375. 23:34So I want you all to remember this, if and when there's another shutdown, because according
376. 23:42to Calvin Clark, wait, what do you want me to do?
377. 23:47It's only leverage points we have.
378. 23:48It was one of the few of you.
379. 23:49I mean, look, hands are tied.
380. 23:50The American people tied our hands.
381. 23:52So we have to frustrate the American people's agenda somehow.
382. 23:56It's what it only leverage points we have.
383. 24:03Really.
384. 24:05I want you to remember this.
385. 24:06Guys, let's save this clip for when, if and when there's another shutdown.
386. 24:12And then in that instance, it's more advantageous to discuss it for the Democrat Party publicly.
387. 24:17And you have every media outlet going crazy, just crusting all of these things.
388. 24:22You just try it out there and say, what do we do?
389. 24:24This is one of the leverage points we have.
390. 24:27Why are you crazy?
391. 24:28You know, and it, we can talk about a lot of things like other government officials don't
392. 24:36get paid during shutdowns, but Congress members do. You want to know how you cut shutdowns out
393. 24:41real quick, make Congress members not be able to be paid during the shutdown and see what
394. 24:47happens. See what happens. Just to see. You know, but it was, it was, it was, I couldn't
395. 24:56believe and I, who shouldn't be shocked at this stage, shouldn't be shocked about it. But
396. 25:06the stuff that happens, it's just amazing. It's one of our few leverage points. I didn't
397. 25:11I didn't play the clip.
398. 25:12I didn't bring the clip for you because it was just,
399. 25:14I didn't want to lower your IQ by playing that clip.
400. 25:18But it was, it was,
401. 25:19on morning Joe, Big New You Brzezinski's daughter
402. 25:23was on there talking about
403. 25:25Abigail Spamburger's electoral prospects are lessening
404. 25:28because of misogyny.
405. 25:31And I was like, what?
406. 25:33People don't want to vote for Abigail Spamburger
407. 25:36because she's a woman.
408. 25:37I was like, did these people forget
409. 25:39that Abigail Spamburger's opponent is a woman too?
410. 25:50guys let me just say something just because somebody's on TV don't assume that they're
411. 25:53intelligent because they're on TV.
412. 25:55Cole.
413. 25:56Yes, Cole.
414. 25:57Cole.
415. 25:58Yes you are.
416. 25:59Cole.
417. 26:00Yes you are.
418. 26:02Yeah, I didn't want to play the clip for y'all.
419. 26:04Big new you present skin was all sharped in another's and they told my misogyny is the
420. 26:08reason why Abigail Spamburgers losing starting to lose her momentum in Virginia.
421. 26:13And I'm saying, wait a minute, wait a minute.
422. 26:15Who is Abigail Spamburg running against?
423. 26:17Who's that Bobby?
424. 26:19That's right.
425. 26:20When some Sears, when some Earl sees, when some Earl
426. 26:27Sears, a woman, a woman with more melanin displayed
427. 26:34in her skin, a woman who was a descendant of immigrants,
428. 26:39who was herself an immigrant I should add.
429. 26:42I thought that was like, that's the hand
430. 26:44that the donkey party fans with, not so, not so.
431. 26:49So, and this is, this is an aid public service announcement
432. 26:52to remind you, when these people tell you
433. 26:53these are their pro values and the things
434. 26:56believe in, they're lying to you. Because what they're doing is simply employing
435. 27:00rhetoric to advance their true allegiance, which is the regressive party agenda, no matter
436. 27:07what. They use rhetoric, they say they care about minorities, they say they care about migrants,
437. 27:12they say they care about women even only when it fits their political agenda. They don't
438. 27:17care about when some seers, she's a woman, she's a migrant, they don't care about her,
439. 27:25They care about minorities.
440. 27:26They don't care about Clarence Thomas.
441. 27:29I'm just saying, man, don't play these people's games.
442. 27:35It's the jig is up.
443. 27:37The jig is up.
444. 27:38Don't let them get you into a pretzel over all of these things because they do not believe
445. 27:42it.
446. 27:43They do not.
447. 27:44They employ it rhetorically.
448. 27:47It's a rhetorical device in order to manipulate you to get you to do what they want you to
449. 27:52do.
450. 27:53All right, I'm going to move on from that.
451. 27:56This is one man that has been on my mind for quite some time.
452. 27:59And I saw this statement released today.
453. 28:02And it was an interesting group of people all involved in it.
454. 28:06You see, wait a minute.
455. 28:08Yeah, here we go.
456. 28:10An interesting group of tech leaders and media personalities and politicians and all
457. 28:18sorts have come together to release this statement on super intelligence as it pertains
458. 28:24to artificial intelligence.
459. 28:25All right.
460. 28:26So you have AI artificial intelligence, then I think the term artificial intelligence
461. 28:37overstates the reality and I think it diminishes the subsequent thing that should be concerning.
462. 28:43So what we largely have now, which is described as artificial intelligence, really should be
463. 28:48described as algorithmic learning.
464. 28:51So all of us over the years, you've had these free email accounts, Gmail, Yahoo, all these
465. 28:57free email accounts. It's like, I got told myself, my son will tell you there's nothing
466. 29:02that's free. So all over all of these years, these people have been accumulating human information
467. 29:09in order to compile a data source and multiple data sources to put them into computers ultimately.
468. 29:15But algorithmic learning as technology continues and innovation continues will grow to the point
469. 29:24of artificial general intelligence.
470. 29:27That's where you have a plethora of information
471. 29:31that is available at the ready in a general sense.
472. 29:35Then the step beyond artificial general intelligence
473. 29:38is super intelligence.
474. 29:39Where you have the machines basically have
475. 29:42the self-learning capacity
476. 29:44in a continuous, almost computer-based, infinite manner,
477. 29:49where it continues to learn and continue to learn.
478. 29:51Sam Altman, who is the founder of OpenAI, you know, prior, his early statements, prior
479. 29:59to he got, you know, PR teams and all, that his objective was to create God.
480. 30:04It was going to be God of his creation, that he was, he was involved in the development
481. 30:12of humanity's replacement and that the only option available to mankind is to merge with
482. 30:19the machines.
483. 30:20Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
484. 30:22Now, Sam Altman tries to pretty that language up,
485. 30:24but that stuff is documented.
486. 30:29This statement on superintelligence was led by,
487. 30:35let me give the gentleman's name,
488. 30:37future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark,
489. 30:42future of Life Institute Max Teg Tegmark.
490. 30:47And the statement is a very brief statement,
491. 30:50but it's a profound statement in assessing,
492. 30:53or should I say in asserting what it is
493. 30:58that they're arguing for.
494. 31:01I lost my page.
495. 31:05Where is it?
496. 31:06Just about 30 words.
497. 31:09Yeah, I have it.
498. 31:10Okay, the statement on superintelligence,
499. 31:13which has over 20,000 signatures now
500. 31:15in its growing moment by moment, it says this quote,
501. 31:17we call for a prohibition on the development
502. 31:21of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad
503. 31:25scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably and strong public buy-in.
504. 31:34Now, the people who have signed on to this statement, and you know, I am not one of these people, I'm just
505. 31:40a funny daddy, I'm opposed to all things innovation, but there's some things just because we have to
506. 31:46technological advancement to do things doesn't mean we should do them. Now, one of the most immediate
507. 31:50things that comes to mind is that you do realize that the technology is available to clone people.
508. 31:56You actually had a dude in China who did so.
509. 32:00But because of ethical concerns, particularly bioethics, the world pretty much
510. 32:07frowned on that idea to say, Oh, no, no, no, no, this, this is, this, this is going
511. 32:13too far where that is not a popular idea right now, even though the technology is
512. 32:20available to do it.
513. 32:21We talked about, you know, the CRISPR technology, how to use it with animals and
514. 32:25things of that nature.
515. 32:26And you had this guy in China who tried to do it.
516. 32:29Now the Chinese because they're very much interested in control.
517. 32:34They're not very much on the ethical side of things, but they like to control their populace.
518. 32:39They put Oboy in jail.
519. 32:44But now with the super intelligence, the pursuit of it, you have interesting people from all
520. 32:51different backgrounds, cross sections politically, people that you probably wouldn't expect to
521. 32:56see agreeing on things.
522. 32:57For example, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
523. 33:00A lot of people say that Wozniak was the brains behind Steve Jobs' visions, his ideas.
524. 33:08Steve Jobs and have ideas, Wozniak would be the brain to make those ideas a reality.
525. 33:13You have people like Steve Bannon.
526. 33:17You have others who are huge in the text space like Stuart Russell.
527. 33:25And you have, oh, I had the other gentleman's name.
528. 33:28I have it right here.
529. 33:29Turned it wrong document.
530. 33:30Let me get to it.
531. 33:33A.I. pioneers Yoshio Benjio and Jeffrey Hinton.
532. 33:37These guys are some of the pioneers in algorithmic learning.
533. 33:41And what they are saying, they are warning that the guardrails for the ethics
534. 33:46that would keep superintelligence from harming humanity
535. 33:49and subverting humanity, those guardrails are not in place.
536. 33:52So we need to stop the breaks. Pump the breaks for now.
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550. 35:00Not acknowledging sin.
551. 35:03This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian World View.
552. 35:07In a recent survey by George Barnard at Arizona Christian University,
553. 35:11quote, only half of all American adults believe that everyone has sinned,
554. 35:15and 72% of self-identified Christians believe that people are basically good at heart.
555. 35:21This is a egregious error.
556. 35:23The Bible says, if we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and
557. 35:28the truth is not in us.
558. 35:29If we confess our sins, He is faithful in righteousness to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
559. 35:35all unrighteousness.
560. 35:37Sin is the reason that we need God to save us through faith in the life, death, and resurrection
561. 35:43of His Son.
562. 35:45Here are most recent programs with George Barna at TheChristianWorldView.org and then tune in
563. 35:50this weekend for another topic that will sharpen your worldview.
564. 35:54Listen to The Christian World View with David Wheaton, Saturday mornings at 8 Central on American
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567. 36:11the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
568. 36:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third year.
569. 36:18I want to continue a little bit more on this artificial super intelligence thing because
570. 36:23the warning is here, the technology seems to be here.
571. 36:26It's almost like the tracks for the railroad cars, you know, already here.
572. 36:32and AI pioneers like Yoshua Benjio and Jeffrey Hinton,
573. 36:36and you had that one from Elon Musk for a while,
574. 36:39but I don't know where he is currently on that.
575. 36:44But Benjio wrote, quote,
576. 36:46"'Artificial superintelligence could surpass
577. 36:48most individuals across most cognitive tasks
578. 36:51within just a few years.
579. 36:54These advances could unlock solutions
580. 36:57to major global challenges,
581. 36:58but they also carry significant risks.
582. 37:00To safely advance towards superintelligence,
583. 37:03we must scientifically determine how to design AI systems that are fundamentally incapable
584. 37:11of harming people, whether through misalignment or malicious use.
585. 37:17We also need to make sure the public has a much stronger say in decisions that will shape
586. 37:22our collective future, in quote, which is a very important point because which of you
587. 37:29sitting at home right now has expressed your willingness and your consent to be forced to
588. 37:34either merge with the machine or to be, how shall I say this?
589. 37:42Remove from society? Have you consented to that? And I was trying to think of the best way to
590. 37:48explain this. And I'm not recommending you go do go do this if you haven't done so. But some of
591. 37:52you may recall the old movie I believe it came out in the early 2000s. I robot, y'all remember that
592. 37:57movie when you look up for me when I robot came out Bobby because I remember correctly
593. 38:01I robot projected to be in the to be in the year 2035. I think so. And you know the whole
594. 38:13push was you know artificial intelligence robots etc. etc. 2004 is when I robot came out. Thank
595. 38:21you Bobby 2004 and it was rejecting 2035. I remember right I remembered it properly.
596. 38:29Well, if you recall, the notion was, and everybody thought the character that Will Smith was playing
597. 38:34was crazy because like robots were never harm humans. And then you had the whole situation where you
598. 38:38had a robot who committed a murder. And they had so much hubris and pride about the three laws,
599. 38:45they're impregnable in the three laws prohibit robots from harming humans. And then you had
600. 38:53the mastermind robot Vicki who reinterpreted the three laws that would allow the
601. 39:02robots to harm humans if harming a smaller amount of humans is better for
602. 39:08all humans. Now this is a movie, this is a movie, but I will say the robots in our
603. 39:16robot look a whole lot like Tesla's Optimus robots. Look a whole lot like
604. 39:22And I'm only talking about that movie just to try to illustrate the point that I believe Jeffrey Hinton and
605. 39:31Yes, you that Benjio
606. 39:33Yeshua Benjio and others are attempting to make is that whoa if we don't have the ethical guardrails employed
607. 39:40We could find ourselves in a bad way in a short amount of time
608. 39:48And I don't know what's going on this to you I sneeze every time I come with you guys
609. 39:55Guys, this is a real thing.
610. 39:57And I'm concerned that there isn't enough
611. 40:03of a groundswirl expression of concern
612. 40:05because everyday people, man, we working,
613. 40:06we got children to feed, we trying to buy groceries,
614. 40:09trying to put gas in our vehicles.
615. 40:11Yes, I said gas in our vehicles.
616. 40:13Elon Musk said if you buy my vehicle,
617. 40:15I wouldn't eat it but gas in my vehicle.
618. 40:17Elon Musk, if I could travel more than a minute down the street
619. 40:20without having to recharge for 25 hours,
620. 40:22not, you know, trying to put gas in our vehicles.
621. 40:27We trying to, you know, take care of our families, take care of our parents as they age, take
622. 40:31care of our children.
623. 40:33Most of us don't have time to sit around.
624. 40:35Oh, I wonder what OpenAI is doing today.
625. 40:39And sadly, put people like Sam Altman, they take advantage of that.
626. 40:44Almost like pink in the brain.
627. 40:45What are you going to do tomorrow?
628. 40:47Take over the world, you know, sitting around and plotting on, yes, I want to be the one
629. 40:53that that he literally said, I want to be the one to program.
630. 40:56Humans descendants evolutionarily that's what he says and it's sometimes hard to think you got people that's that wicked out there
631. 41:04Yes
632. 41:06Share with you before some of the early people that were participants in this whole AI thing
633. 41:10They had a particular
634. 41:12Percentage of their investment in their resources that invested in the ethical side of development because they saw what super intelligence could produce down a line
635. 41:20Then in this digital arms race that was no longer
636. 41:24are involved. So you have people rushing heart heavily on for this development and the ethical
637. 41:33considerations aren't there. Hence, my description before, all right, we got algorithmic learning,
638. 41:37we got artificial general intelligence, we have artificial moving towards artificial super
639. 41:41intelligence, who is doing the programming? There is no such thing as neutral because you
640. 41:49have a person during the, doing the programming that the evidence of Adam through that person
641. 41:54will come through the programming. And I'm concerned that there are not enough people paying
642. 42:01attention to this. And this is one of the things why I was I have always remained suspicious
643. 42:07of of Elon Musk and his pension towards transhumanism. All right. I'm concerned that there are not
644. 42:17enough people with enough technical understanding combined with appropriate concern to have the
645. 42:27type of popular resistance to this that people had to cloning.
646. 42:31Cloning was a bit more, you know, every man, you say, man, they
647. 42:35cloning people. What do you think? What Jeff, you say they
648. 42:39cloning people? Man, I was already at the cookout. Jeff said,
649. 42:42they're cloning people. No, I want to clone over here. You know,
650. 42:46that's a little bit more readily, you know, converse,
651. 42:49conversable. Well, you start talking about artificial general
652. 42:54intelligence, artificial super intelligence and algorithmic
653. 42:57learning and and and almost every tool, you know, you got chat GT GTP, you know, it's large language
654. 43:04learning models and all these other things. All I'm saying is that they needs to be more public
655. 43:15involvement, more transparency, and more clarity before we go headlong careening in this direction,
656. 43:24because the technology is advancing rapidly. It's advancing rapidly. And the potential exists for
657. 43:34to be moving too rapidly for everybody to keep up.
658. 43:38I'm concerned we might find ourselves
659. 43:43in the middle of the eye of a robot movie.
660. 43:45I'm not one of these people that's anti-technology,
661. 43:48I'm grateful for the technology,
662. 43:50technological innovation that serves our purposes as mankind.
663. 43:55But you have people that are envisioning
664. 43:59the enslavement of mankind through machines,
665. 44:02and they're well-funded, and they're rushing headlong
666. 44:06without the type of ethical guardrails
667. 44:09to guide that kind of pursuit.
668. 44:13And it's worth our attention.
669. 44:14It's worth our attention.
670. 44:17All right, you can file this next story
671. 44:19under the we'll do anything for Powerfile.
672. 44:24As surprised as it may be to many of us,
673. 44:27Susan Collins still identifies herself as a Republican.
674. 44:30She conquuses with the Republicans in the US Senate.
675. 44:35There are very few opportunities
676. 44:39to flip Republican seats to Democrat seats
677. 44:44the US Senate, but Susan Collins in some people's minds represents an opportunity for a flip
678. 44:52for the Democrat party.
679. 44:56Here's where this story is interesting.
680. 44:59Apparently the Democrats in Maine and Maine have made the decision with the support of people
681. 45:04like Bernie Sanders.
682. 45:05You know, there's a Bernie Sanders disciple by the name of what is his name?
683. 45:11I was named Graham Plattner Graham Plattner.
684. 45:16to 41 year old military veteran who is now describing himself in his older age as a communist.
685. 45:28He even says he likes to want to say it right.
686. 45:34He just the description is in this next one when he says I'm a pill popping psychedelic
687. 45:39there he is.
688. 45:40I'm a vegetable growing psychedelic communist, but I talk socialist these days in quote
689. 45:45but that was a quote he says about himself, you know.
690. 45:49Graham Plattner, among other things,
691. 45:53has come to light that he has grotesque
692. 45:57commonsies made on Reddit, you know,
693. 45:59demeaning people based on their skin color.
694. 46:03You name it, you name it, but worse than all of them,
695. 46:06now I won't say worse, in addition to all of it,
696. 46:09in addition to all of it, Graham Plattner,
697. 46:12and if you wouldn't, Mr. McIntosh,
698. 46:14go ahead and put the image on the screen
699. 46:15for the people who are watching the show.
700. 46:16If you're watching the show, you won't see it yet,
701. 46:18but I'm gonna describe it before.
702. 46:19You Graham Plattner has on his chest, his right chest,
703. 46:25this image that you're seeing on the screen
704. 46:27if you're watching of a tattoo.
705. 46:30This tattoo is described as a Tottenkoff,
706. 46:33which is a quote,
707. 46:34death's head that was used by the infamous Nazi SS
708. 46:38during World War II as they guarded concentration camps
709. 46:44in World War II.
710. 46:47Well, Graham Plattner has this tattooed on his chest,
711. 46:53on his right chest muscle.
712. 46:59Dating all the way back to 2012,
713. 47:00he's known for hanging out in bars,
714. 47:02getting drunk, taking off his shirt.
715. 47:04And according to people who knew him at the time,
716. 47:08good old Graham would say, yeah,
717. 47:11this is quote, my Totten Cough tattoo,
718. 47:13my Totten Cough tattoo.
719. 47:16Now, because he's a Democrat's choice
720. 47:18to run against Susan Collins in Maine
721. 47:20for the US Senate seat in Maine,
722. 47:22He calls himself getting on in front of the story.
723. 47:25So he showed up on the Regressive Potsay of America podcast
724. 47:29and he's sending images out himself of his tattoo
725. 47:33and saying that, oh, I didn't know that I'm not a secret Nazi.
726. 47:39You wanna talk about your opening salvo at the Rum for Office?
727. 47:43I'm not really a Nazi,
728. 47:45despite of what this permanent ink on my body says.
729. 47:50I get you that.
730. 47:52Plattner had a friend who says when he went to George Washington University in Washington,
731. 47:57DC in 2012 on the GI Bill, by the way, that Plattner had quote specifically acknowledged
732. 48:05that the tattoo was a Tottenkopf, the death hit symbol adopted by the infamous Nazi SS,
733. 48:10SS unit at Guarded Conservation Camps in World War II.
734. 48:13He would tell people, oh, this is my Tottenkopf tattoo.
735. 48:20This one particular exchange, recalled by this person, occurred in 2012 at the Tune In, a
736. 48:27popular dive bar on Capitol Hill where Plattner worked later as a bartender and was a frequent
737. 48:34patron while he attended George Washington University.
738. 48:41After his Reddit post came to the fore, Graham Plattner's former political director Genevieve
739. 48:52McDonald resigned. It's like this dude is a slug. Resigned. And then she posted on Facebook,
740. 49:02quote, she posted on Facebook yesterday, quote, Graham has an anti-Semitic tattoo on his chest.
741. 49:09He's not an idiot. He's a military history buff. Maybe he didn't know it when he got it,
742. 49:16but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows very well what
743. 49:22That tattoo means in quote his former political director.
744. 49:30He's he's now you know he wants to get out in front of it. He's doing media media interviews
745. 49:35and all whole I didn't know this was a a Nazi tattoo but his own former political director says yes he does.
746. 49:46This dude is a military history buff. He knows exactly what that tattoo is. Even if he didn't know
747. 49:51when he got it. If he got it when he was a young man, a young
748. 49:55Marine, and that's quite a specific put the image on the
749. 49:59screen again, Jeff. I can't imagine anybody going into the
750. 50:03tattoo shops and do I go with the lightning boat? No, wait, maybe,
751. 50:09maybe I should go with the big rose. Maybe I know that's not
752. 50:13going to. Hey, how about this? The specific Nazi German SS
753. 50:18skulls. How about that? Let's get that on my chest. Even if he
754. 50:22He didn't know what it was when he got it.
755. 50:25He certainly learned what it was before, because he would tell people, yeah, this is my talking
756. 50:28cough.
757. 50:30Can't I make this stuff up?
758. 50:32So on the one hand, you got Jay Jones running for Attorney General in Virginia, who just
759. 50:37wants to kill Republicans and their children and mictorate on their graves.
760. 50:41And then you have Graham Plattner with what is clearly a Nazi SS tattoo on his chest,
761. 50:47although did he or did he not know it was when he got it?
762. 50:50know about that but certainly his political director now resign said he knew what it was
763. 50:58and the and the Democratic Party still says we support Graham Plattner.
764. 51:07Kid you not. Bernie Sanders is saying this is our guy. Even Chuck Schumer who is Jewish
765. 51:15wouldn't say that Gary Graham Plattner needs to get out of the race. All he would say is well I
766. 51:20I think the main governor has a better chance of unseat Susan Collins.
767. 51:23But he still wouldn't say that Nazi SS tattoo having on his chest grandplatner shouldn't
768. 51:31be the Democrats candidate of the US Senate.
769. 51:33So from no kings to we love the Nazi.
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