- Chad Lawrence Nielsen on Adobe Walls and “Slate Sketches”: The Gritty Reality of Building the Salt Lake Temple: “RL, there might be some here: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record/ef252f44-8cf3-450c-8020-f30330e3f9cc/0?view=browse” Jan 25, 18:38
- on The First AI-Written Mormon Horror Novel: “AI seems most useful for assistance with basic ideas and literature review. It can provide a different way to conceptualize a specific topic. As for literature, it appears to be useful for suggesting possible plots, particularly if you feed it different parameters. At this stage, AI seems more like an intermediate step than software for producing final product.” Jan 25, 18:37
- on Adobe Walls and “Slate Sketches”: The Gritty Reality of Building the Salt Lake Temple: “Nice write up. Are there any drawings of alternates of what the Temple may have looked like before settled on the final version?” Jan 25, 17:28
- on Adobe Walls and “Slate Sketches”: The Gritty Reality of Building the Salt Lake Temple: “Jonathan, times like these make me wish the combox allowed for images.” Jan 25, 16:42
- on The Church Doesn’t Need Your Panic: A Response to Jonathan Green: “I agree with Brother Deane’s post.” Jan 25, 14:46
- on The First AI-Written Mormon Horror Novel: “RLD: “Our cosmology isn’t very good for horror–our demons are known quantities. There’s a reason we do science fiction and fantasy instead.” That’s a good point. Also, a lot of horror elements are seen as untoward for Latter-day Saint culture. It’s not a coincidence that probably the best Mormon horror writer, Brian Evenson, was pressured out of BYU and left the Church. I’ve used AI to teach my stats class. I used a “reverse classroom” approach where the students would basically come up to me with the problems in their code and I would help them out, but this would mean that most of the class was spent dealing with syntax, whereas now we can literally get to original regression analysis within an introduction course. Of course, as you note AI causes its own problems. My son takes pictures of his homework sheets and has it help him out, but I have to literally go through his search history like I’m looking for porn to make sure it’s not just solving it for him. Anon: That’s one of the big problems, we don’t really know what goes into the black box of AI, so it couldn’t even tell us very well where exactly its inspiration came from. Sute: I do think that as AI automates more things it does force us to really question what defines us and is meaningful. If your identity was tied to being a fast coder, well, that’s pretty shot at this point, and then lather, rinse, and repeat for every other skill as AI generalizes. As somebody whose ideal life would be sitting in a parlor talking to friends and family every evening, I’m fine with that, but I can sympathize with others whose self-image was tied to something that could go the way of the English cottage industries. REC911: I kind of missed Jonathan’s “Jay’s Journal” comment but then looked it up. Looks like an interesting piece of Utah Mormon horror folklore! Odd that I hadn’t heard of it before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%27s_Journal.” Jan 25, 14:06
- on Adobe Walls and “Slate Sketches”: The Gritty Reality of Building the Salt Lake Temple: “Last Lemming, because the comparison is with standard Monzonite, of course, not granite. Monzonite has <5% quartz, while Quartz Monzonite is 5-20% quartz. (Plus, there's also a Foid-bearing Monzonite.)” Jan 25, 12:30
- on The First AI-Written Mormon Horror Novel: “I thought I was the only member that ever read Jay’s Journal ! What a blast from the past.” Jan 25, 11:13
- on Adobe Walls and “Slate Sketches”: The Gritty Reality of Building the Salt Lake Temple: “At the risk of reinforcing Jonathan’s point–if the temple stone contains less quartz than granite, why do we need to acknowledge quartz in the name of the mineral? Just call it monzonite and be accurate enough to forgo the explanatory note.” Jan 25, 09:01
- on Adobe Walls and “Slate Sketches”: The Gritty Reality of Building the Salt Lake Temple: “It’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.” Jan 25, 08:21
