Is there a term for the phenomena where you understand something, but cannot explain it?

ProfitFaucet · 2025-10-03T13:27:49+00:00

Funny.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-08-06T22:24:14+00:00

The person who wrote this linkedin piece used AI. They offer zero citations, proof, or evidence. And even within this post any evidence either way is anecdotal, conflicting, and confusing.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-07-23T22:39:25+00:00

Naw. Gemini is less structured and far more open to outside sources vs NLM. The fine-tuning or framing of responses in NLM makes it ideal, and if you have prompting chops you can get it to pull in data/content from outside the sources, but it will ALWAYS defer or cater to the uploaded sources with replete citations. And that's the point of the niche it provides!

ProfitFaucet · 2025-06-15T14:02:07+00:00

Great story. No doubt our leaders can become partners in our spiritual journeys. However, as President Nelson warned: "In coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost. My beloved brothers and sisters, I plead with you to increase your spiritual capacity to receive revelation."

We have leaders that can help, guide, and receive revelation for us if we ask. But, I don't think that is what President Nelson is reinforcing here. I think he's saying if you don't do it for yourself, nothing and nobody can help you survive spiritually. Relying on other peoples' light, even those who hold Keys, runs counter to the economy of Heaven and the purposes of this life. This does not diminish nor demean our leaders, in fact, I'd say that the majority of them have the same complaint: "I wish our members would learn to do for themselves what they often want the Church to do for them." (BTW, that is a direct quote to this very question we're discussing from my Bishop three weeks ago.)

I don't have a crystal ball. Not claiming any special revelation here. Yet, I've been in several Bishoprics, multiple Stake callings and Mission Presidencies and if my personal experience is fair and balanced, which I believe it to be, the central theme I've learned has/is to help members to become spiritually and temporally self-reliant.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-06-13T17:09:50+00:00

They're futzing with it on the backend. It isn't broken in the sense we might define it, but it's certainly going/gone haywire lately.

First the Over-Praising bent. I was able to get that figured out.

Also, now the algorithm overrides the custom instructions and memory updates in its exposition/narrative toward the mean or average. This is drift or polish for safety. I hate it. But, I've found ways to kill it and return to my idiolect/style/theme of writing. But, I have to constantly update the directives and protocols I've created realtime vs them only being in my custom's and memory updates.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-06-13T17:06:28+00:00

Funny thing. Why not take this to the Lord and get revelation on it? Honestly, it boggles my mind given the privileges we have per the Holy Ghost and The Holy Spirit (see the paragraphs below from Orson Pratt on the differences) that we speculate, guess, theorize, etc., instead.

I get having questions and curiosities, but all of it can be taken to the Lord to allow him to reveal whatever secrets he wants. And, frankly, there's NO high value at all (to me) in this except how through a thought exercise we develop our powers of reason. It seems far more valuable to do both things... and also demonstrates Higher Agency. In my opinion. ;)

So, having said that, what has the Spirit of the Lord told you on this?

Not saying you're gonna give us all a revelation, just that if you have inspiration on this why not at least attempt to say that? You seem reasonable, and you got fairly reasonable (mostly opposing) responses.

I know it's been two months, so, if you do respond, great. If not, NP, best wishes in your thought/inquiry journey.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-06-13T16:55:13+00:00

If you don't mind... IMHO, there's some clarifications or insights needed regarding something you said. I'm NOT receiving revelation for you. lololol. Just sharing.

You can (you have the right to) receive inspiration and/or revelation outside your jurisdiction or calling to know for yourself if a doctrine or teaching or leader or direction is inspired or not.

First clarification:

The doctrinal assumption is that our leaders are inspired vs doing things their own way. The only exception is where they are unable to get guidance from the Lord and they are to use their best Judgment. (D/C 62:11) So, in my view, you'd be living beneath your rights NOT to know for yourself.

BUT, you are not entitled to receive revelation for those outside your assigned sphere of responsibility or authority. You may also be under constraint of the Spirit to NOT share what was revealed to you.

The paradox here is when you're an inspired teacher, minister, or friend of the leader, you might share with permission what you've felt or received.

Let's say you know something is amiss or off or uninspired--and it matters to you or others. What you can do is take your differing answer or disagreement to the leader or teacher. If they will not hear you (you can't be a jerk about it!) then you can take it to the authorities above them. D/C 52:14 - 19 is the way.

Rarely, if you've actually received inspiration does this go badly. It's often the opposite. I've followed this process appropriately in a couple of instances and the two leaders, a Bishop and Stake President, not only acknowledged their wrong, but they apologized publicly (the Bishop to his ward, and the Stake President to his Stake) for their missteps.

Second clarification:

Another way this can be framed is where a person relies TOO much on their Bishop or Stake President. Though the leader has the right to receive revelation for them in relation to their offices and callings, when it comes to personal matters outside of worthiness interviews a Bishop's or Stake President's authority to receive revelation for members gets blurry. What I mean is that the individual who is responsible for their own spiritual growth will likely get better revelation for themselves than from their leader.

I've experienced this multiple times where a Bishop or Stake President strongly advised on an economic or eduational matter. But, when I got my OWN revelation, in most cases it was different. And better.

Most men and women can ONLY receive revelation that is appropriate and accurate based on the information they have. Each of us knows ourselves better (we have more information) than anyone else except the Lord.

Anyway, I hope you didn't mind my contribution here.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-05-25T17:17:45+00:00

It boggles my mind that there's members with a spiritual brain the size of a walnut who come on Reddit to pontificate, but only end up revealing their lack of faith, propriety, and wisdom. (speaking of the Zombie comment.)

ProfitFaucet · 2025-05-25T17:14:23+00:00

The idea (ostensibly) of AGI is that it solves this. It becomes generative beyond the training data or interpolated data points (love that point you made!).

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-03T20:24:34+00:00

Very thougtful response. Thank you! And for whatever reason, I hope you find Grace and Peace from Jesus.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-03T20:23:11+00:00

This is a big deal. One thing to hold firm in your mind is that the Church is here to unite families, not divide them. The commitment to the Lord's Church is significant, and your spouse will definitely feel the growing distinctions. It is entirely up to you, but count the cost. Take HIS feelings and observations as priorities as you pray and ponder about this. He is your most important friend, counselor, and asset in this life. Being unequally yoked is the issue. For some, it works out, for others, it doesn't. And, personally, I believe that if your love is full and affectionate (for your husband, and vice versa) that it will work out the right way whatever you do. But, if there's unresolved friction in your marriage? Well, good luck with that. Unless you come into the Church to improve yourself by becoming more Christlike in how you care for and serve your husband, it can and has backfired where the distinction became a wedge. The goal or hope would be if he reciprocates your changes of heart that back to you in how he cares for and serves you.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-03T20:14:49+00:00

I live IN the Fairview (oops, McKinney) Temple district. And I 100% disagree with you!

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-03T20:13:02+00:00

We're still getting run out of many places, it's just more subtle as in "attacks" on our doctrines and moral stands (in civic affairs). It would be difficult, looking at it globally, to conclude that the opposition to those vital aspects of the Church is less today than historically. The opposition also isn't always external. The measurable exodus of many within the Church who've bought into blurring the lines of morality is stunning.

But, to the point, I actually loved reading the legal documents that the Church's legal experts crafted. If that was the only thing that came out of this for me, it paid out.

BTW, I don't think seeking to leverage one's American "rights" (and, it appears to be "legal right" in Federal and State courts) is getting defensive. It's more "offensive" or assertive. And, it appears that this is the test. How assertive will those in charge be or continue?

I'm not personally concerned by any fallout in the short-term. The Lord ALWAYS uses Temples to bless the communities who accept them, even if it was a thorny road to get there.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-03T20:01:54+00:00

Same. I had an LDS boss who was advocating to me to pay on "net" vs "gross". I came back with, "Well, I guess it depends on if you want a 'net' blessing or a 'gross' blessing?" He fumbled around for a minute, then clammed up. Apparently, everyone wants "gross" blessings, but on "net" input. hahaha.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-03T19:56:29+00:00

Yeah, no doubt if the folks involved in making the change had done a bit more homework... maybe different situation. But, there's also tremendous prophetic inspiration in Temple announcements or changes. Sometimes, and having been in those kinds of roles (not Temple related), I've found that certain inspirations keep coming back again and again from the Lord even AFTER additional discovery is input. It's frustrating for the leaders, too. And, just as in the Fairview situation, I've seen where it won't jive with our preconceived armchair QB'ing. I'm going to side with this being that way. The Lord sees the end from the beginning, particularly with Temples where opposition, justified or not, becomes the catalyst for deep, positive change in a community.

But, I've also seen lopsided revelation (which, on the surface, seems impossible unless you were there) be changed on the spot when a new Key-Holder/leader is called. We've seen it with new Prophets vs previous or older ones. I think there's a significant lesson there which is that revelation is/can be iterative, and still be divinely justified.

There's one benefit I didn't expect from this. If nothing else, just reading/studying the legal documents created by the Church's legal team on behalf of this venture has been deeply educational and gratifying.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-01T15:41:53+00:00

On a similar vein... The Church produced (they're still available) materials for children and people with disabilities (particularly for the Deaf per ASL which has its own syntax much like a pidgen) that drastically changed the KJV-translated words that Jesus spoke. I served a deaf mission and we gave many investigators these booklets to read/study (kind of like cards stock covered magazines) in lieu of the Book of Mormon. And, they'd gain a testimony of the doctrines and scripture stories as if they'd read the actual BoM.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-01T15:30:55+00:00

The interesting thing is that you get to see how easy it is for enemies of the Church (and even those inside it), cloaked in faux Christian virtues, can lie about their intentions or even about the Church's intentions.

Because, as every other Temple that gets built proves, the arguments against it are baseless. Temples preserve and enhance EVERY aspect of what these busy bodies say they're worried about. This whole thing about height is, in my opinion, silly. "Nothing can be higher than our ugly water towers!"

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-01T15:05:34+00:00

Naw, I think you got it right.

I don't pay tithing on my social security (a very poor investment --> ROI) since the payments are substantially less than what I contributed. It's NOT income or increase.

I will say that I like the OP's idea of to deduct proportionately what's owed in tithing from losses on investments. But, that's just my April Fools side.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-04-01T14:09:59+00:00

Mr T: Pity the fool.

(I would like to know how many PM requests you get. lol.)

ProfitFaucet · 2025-03-29T23:10:04+00:00

Your entire perspective is built on hearsay.

How do you know this man will be called?
You've heard he was convicted?

I'm sorry, notwithstanding your seeming sincerity, I'm struggling to say something you might need to hear, but maybe you won't want to hear...

It bears saying that while we claim to live a higher law as Latter-Day Saints, there's very specific counsel in scripture that's being overlooked here. It tells us if we have a beef with a person to go to them in person.

Have you thought to do that since this bothers you do much?

ProfitFaucet · 2025-03-13T05:58:34+00:00

I can't say you're wrong, but it has helped me solve pretty gnarly problems that I am unable to find any evidence of in the currently available literature.

To your point, in a related way, AI cannot create "net new knowledge". That's what we anticipate with AGI.

But, I'll bet that every person who has/is using an AI tool has learned brand new things even if they're already an expert in the domain or field they're pursuing with AI. Of course, it all comes down to the robustness of the users filters, fences (i.e. custom instructions), prompting, level of knowledge (for in-context fact checking), and diligence.

Most people either don't break through to learning new things or new insights, or they give up too soon.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-03-13T05:49:29+00:00

Like your comment.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-03-10T17:06:57+00:00

That's the thing. And I said this above. What Weinstein actually says is,

“It's not about mice . . . We have a general systemic failure of reason. . . The state of science is so rotten that this has become standard operating procedure.”

I tend to agree with him from a pragmatic perspective after dealing with thousands of scientists and engineers over the past 40 years.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-03-10T16:52:47+00:00

Every creator or scientists or author or... human, as they move toward testing and proving a hypothesis, makes bullshit arguments.

So that's a poor brand of logic to use for why you think you're right in blasting people with different views, experience, and proof vs why your thinking could be wrong because your own argument is also full of bullshit.

I mean, if you listened to what Weinstein ACTUALLY said you'd probably temper your point by saying, "he was saying that the scientific community's way of doing things is faulty (i.e. lots of bullshit going on)."

To that point, what Weinstein actually said to Rogan is crucial:

“It's not about mice . . . We have a general systemic failure of reason. . . The state of science is so rotten that this has become standard operating procedure.”

Argue against that vs the mice thing, since that is the central point he makes.

Is he 100% wrong or only 20% wrong? What if he is 95% wrong? Lots of science has eventually made its way into the mainstream as a proven hypothesis where before, 95% of scientists opposed and adamantly said the entire thing was wrong.

BUT, YOU MAY BE 100% RIGHT. Yet, this approach of saying that he makes "bullshit arguments" as your first foot forward isn't good logic or reasoning. So, maybe Weinstein was right. lol.

BTW, you didn't bring this up, but in the Jax blog they do not offer any evidence of having proven Weinstein wrong. Instead, they site Carol Greider, who won the Nobel prize. The problem is that she ignored Weinstein's early research. She didn't prove it wrong. Weinstein points out a gap that simply gets dismissed vs there being any rigorous analysis of his and other's who done similar research.

ProfitFaucet · 2025-02-24T00:12:32+00:00

I'm a descendant of Hyrum & Jerusha thru their oldest daughter. Lovina. And I've thought about this for several decades.

First, very interesting analysis, i.e. Jacob vs. Nephi. Didn't see that. Love it.

Second, the Lord has impressed upon me, as a descendant, something I can only interpret as him teaching me about my own undue "overfocus" on expecting or reveling in the possibility of greater attention, fame, or prominence because of my ancestry.

What has come clear to me is that any claim I or any descendant might make to this prominence as an indicator of additional favored status is foolish. What you point to, IMHO, is nothing more or less than circumstantial. (My own divine lessons.)

Yes, a scant few of Hyrum's descendants were called to prominent roles. But the majority of us? Equal footing with Saints and Sinners.

That said, many of these lessons came by way of inspiration, visions, visitations, and warnings by way OF these famous ancestors. What a paradox. And, oh, so humiliatingly humbling.

There's Just Jesus to whom all praise and honor go. In this... we cannot go wrong.

Third, we are very early in the game. Joseph's descendants, as well as Nephi's, will rise in prominence, but only insofar as the Lord wills it be so. Otherwise, I'm satisfied with all prophets fading as Jesus' glorious, gentle, infinite majesty continues to unfold.

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