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Jon Boyd
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Associate publisher & academic editorial director at InterVarsity Press (USA)—PhD (History, Johns Hopkins)—Reader, writer, t(h)inker—Words, pages, places—Mechanical typewriting and saxophoning—Disciple, spouse, daddy, friend, Chicagoan. #resist
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• stove-gas anxiety
• weather anxiety (mostly importantly dryness anxiety, but also coolness, calm, and cloud-cover anxieties)
• toileting anxiety
• battery-capacity anxiety
• cell-coverage anxiety

…but it's a joy when one can free oneself from the last three entirely.
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Jon Boyd
Letting a computer make decisions is letting whoever controls the computer decide the range of acceptable choices. There is no way that the owners of the AI systems will allow them to make decisions which are optimal for the user but against the interests of the owner...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM