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21/07/2025

Ambilis. Keep safe and Pray for everyone's safety. 🙏

MARIKINA RIVER WATER LEVEL
July 21, 2025 | 3:00 PM
16.3 M (SECOND ALARM)

Rain Fall Reading:
Mt. Campana - 0 mm
Boso-Boso - 2 mm
Aries - 0 mm
Mt. Oro - 8 mm
Nangka - 1 mm
Total = 11 mm

21/07/2025

19/07/2025

It's hard. It's difficult. Nonetheless, pray, and wish them healing. 🙏

17/07/2025

Can We Survive AI? John Lennox on Deepfakes, Death, and the Divine Upgrade

John Lennox: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I’m delighted you’ve come to hear a geriatric individual...

🧠 Living with AI Today

We already live with narrow AI—databases and algorithms simulating intelligence, decoupled from consciousness.

AI applications include digital assistants, online shopping, medical use, autonomous driving, and facial recognition for security—which has also been used oppressively in Xinjiang

Deepfakes pose a threat to democracy by undermining truth itself, as noted by MI5’s director general Ken McCallum .

🧭 The Moral Problem of AI
AI lacks moral understanding—no sense of right or wrong, says Joshua Bengio .

Lennox references Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World, quoting Neil Postman: “Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.”

🌀 Fundamental Questions
Citing E.O. Wilson: "We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology..."

AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) raises existential concerns—citing Lord Rees: we cannot be confident future super intelligences will share human values

🔮 Spectrum of Expert Opinion
Stephen Hawking warned the risk is competence, not malice.

Eliezer Yudkowsky warned that misaligned super‑AI could extinguish humanity.

Jobst Landgrebe & Barry Smith assert AGI may be mathematically impossible—a stance shared by Sir Roger Penrose

📉 Current Risks vs. Future Fears
Nature (June 2023): We should address existing societal harms from AI, not chase doomsday

Scientific American: AI erodes critical human skills, judgment, and serendipity .

🧩 Regulation & Control
Sam Altman (OpenAI) stresses regulation is essential.

Stuart Russell recommends AI be programmed to pursue human goals, remain uncertain about them, and continually learn from us

🌎 The Omega Project & Biblical Parallels
Lennox cites an MIT physicist’s "Omega Project": a totalitarian world-bracelet that tracks all, administers medicine, and executes unauthorized removal

He parallels this with the “beast” imagery from Revelation—total control and a global economy linked to a mark on the hand or forehead .

📢 Emergence of AI Worship
A new "religion" of AI worship is budding, with systems mimicking deities—omniscient, omnipresent, requiring devotion

✝️ Hope & The Divine Upgrade
Christian alternative: instead of transhumanist self-divinization via tech, faith affirms God became human in Christ.

He sees Jesus’ resurrection and promise of an "immortal body" as the ultimate "divine upgrade"

The Singju Post
https://singjupost.com/transcript-can-we-survive-ai-john-lennox-on-deepfakes-death-and-the-divine-upgrade/

https://youtu.be/-MbD_KdPgZ0?si=6vhcbHHF_2wAOadX

Read the full transcript of mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist John Lennox’s lecture titled “Can We Survive AI? John Lennox on Deepfakes, Death, and the Divine Upgrade”, at Confident Faith Conference, 2024. John Lennox: Good

03/07/2025

09/01/2025

Hebrews 4:12

05/12/2024

Whatever you do today, don't sink anyone's boat. The ocean is wide enough for all of us to sail comfortably.

29/11/2024

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. - Psalm 23:4

21/11/2024

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[a]
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”

3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14 “Because he[b] loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”

15/11/2024

Nov 15, 2024- Friday
God Bless You🩵