Its been 5 years since I last posted on this old AWS instance web server, but since it still seems operational with 100% uptime in those 5 years I thought I'd use it to share what I was inspired to write on LinkedIn after realizing how pointless it is for me to maintain any social presence there but it could probably reach a lot more English speaking heathens that I may have shared a past with.

I have found that the big tech media selection prediction AIs, also known as "The Algorithm", seem to suggest in ways very similar to what Christians have been taught to expect and have been preparing for thousands of years. That is, the fight for men's souls and the surgical replacement of their inner voices with one conforming to the world hivemind. In the vernacular of Christianity this is demon vs Holy Spirit posession. World's wisdom vs. Heaven's wisdom. Jesus vs. Satan. Humans vs. Him (capital H). If you find yourself repulsed by my use of this form of language, Christianity also knows what that means and what to do with you and I hope you read on, if for no other reason than curiosity's sake. Some of you probably knew a different me.

Anyone who has progressed in a math-based career like mine is certain to have stumbled across some of the very strange, provably real, theorems that seem at first to defy reality, but when further analyzed you realize they actually define it, just at an exceptionally boring low level that only us nerds have found fascinating. There is one effect called the "Wisdom of the Crowd" you are certain to run into when using the field of statistics and the central limit theorem (which is also freaky magical). Although you may miss its spiritual significance in the study of statistics, once you have a use for it in a real world problem your soul has committed to searching for solutions of, it really starts feeling like a divine gift and tickles at your spiritual side. That is, unless the modern educational institutes of man you put yourself through really did succeed in killing off your spiritual side or nobody in your life has yet helped you awaken it properly.  If that is what your education has "given" you, a world view confirming there is nothing worth knowing of the spiritual what a tragedy! You'll miss out and be left empty in old age, when the world's systems are through with your peak productivity period and it no longer has much use for the superficial transient "insights" you were programmed to bear. The world and its governments have no interest for anything outside of what helps or threatens its tax base, so is unworthy of your heart and soul.

In statistics, this "wisdom of the crowd" effect is super powerful for discerning truth, but turns out to be easily corruptible even in pure mathematical usage. Oh, how so perfect an analogue to our real world! Here I was, rediscovering a biblical truth recognized 2000 years ago and put to words in the bible so plainly and simply, no wonder STEM majors pretend to seem so offended by the bible evangelists all the time. To many it trivializes the craft they sacrificed so much of themselves in attaining. All the nuanced truths they thought they were "unlocking" in their study and the complexities they found so beautiful not realizing theres a huge portion of us that really don't care about human knowledge now that Jesus has come and given us His and as it turns out, the meaning of life, the universe, and everything can all be reduced in complexity to the story of a single perfect human's life as witnessed by 12 fisherman 2000 years ago (and the number 42, wink wink).  It's a similar type of stupefied arrogance you get back if you reduce someone else's 100,000 line of Rust code masterpiece to a 30 line LISP program that ends up doing the same thing and runs faster. That's what Jesus did to philosophy, government, society and culture all at the same time, stored in compressed form in the verses of the bible and buried within your own soul and life experience is the decompression dictionary.  Machines and LLMs will not be able to decompress it, but every human child can.  

My message to those STEM majors who think they and the fruits of their craft are Gods gifts to humanity: You're right! but probably not for the reason you think you are. As you keep making new versions of the same toys for the world's economic engines and toss the sum of our human knowledge, along with megawatts of your blood energy and capital into AI datacenter "cauldrons" in hope of bringing about your own form of imagined "Singularity" rapture, realize Jesus already beat you to it over 2000 years ago and it only takes one short book to follow us through history so we don't forget. And just when you think you are close to finally succeeding in summoning your final demon and its preferred forms of governments and economies, realize that the Holy Spirit will snap his fingers and effortlessly change the hearts and minds of people one at a time just like me that used to be just like you, in only just the minimal amount necessary to ensure the success of His plan that we were told about thousands of years ago.

Your "modern" and progressive sensibilities are the blip in history, not the church's. The children you have sacrificed into the machines and institutions of man attempting to bring about your utopia will not last as is already apparent with each diminished generation. You don't need to be competent in math to extrapolate the population trends of the types of people and cultures that are not reproducing and fluorishing. Your elite CEOs and leaders visions will not be exalted like they secretly hope to be, and their entire life's work and legacy will be just another footnote some biblical scholar from the future uses as he struggles to keep the attention of his child students while they are told the Tower of Babel story.  The only way to ensure a timeless legacy for yourself is to drop the priority of your own missions and join Jesus's mission before you stop caring about legacy altogether and fully embrace the void. People's spirits die much sooner than their bodies do, and societies and individuals that embrace pointlessness of meaning eventually become it, and that is NOT okay or noble.  Its not even something you should wish upon your worst human enemies, which is why Christians are called to preach, convert, and evangelize.  Jesus really does love you and want to know you as much he wants you to know Him.  

Gods kingdom however, is not diminishing as He does not compete in units of money, earthly power, or proportion of souls he has currently residing alive on Earth in the year 2026. I beg you, use and redirect your cleverness to notice all things that can NOT just be coincidences and take them as signs to YOU as it pertains to your life. Life's so much more interesting that way and you can put the skills you've refined in your career to new use. Use statistics and the power of math for your own sake, not just trusting other men to do it for you and trust their conclusions. Stop believing you are just a series of accidental chemical reactions going on in a skull intended only to cooperate, collaborate and procreate with your fellow humans and then die. Christianity asks you to be humble, but not that humble. That form of humility is the grotesque form that Satan attempts to put in your head since it is the only virtue he is incapable of imitating. God made us in His image, and this "progressive" false modesty of our place in the universe advocated amongst your new scientific atheism religion elites like Stephen Hawking, is just Satan's not very clever passive-aggressive insult he uses to try to provoke Him, but ends up backfiring and making a fool of himself and Jesus ends up gaining more souls every time.  Satan has learned this, and also encourages non-contemplation of what it is we are and here for for as long in your life its possible to.  Not even the most devout heathens find at least the idea that we are just electrical signals in a brains a little disgusting and that would be credit to the good instincts God put in your design firing up a little even in the most brainwashed or demonically possessed of people.

In my older age, I have a found a way to Jesus while still believing all I still do in science and math. My problem-solving and scientific mind only made the journey less supported since fewer peers and humans mentioned in history have gone down this path and have it well mapped. A science skilled mind is not incompatible with Christianity, and it's actually a blessing that made the experience more fun. A science based one I think is incompatible, as I do not hold the word "science", which only describes a noble human problem solving process the Holy Spirit has gifted our brains to be able to do to help us rule over God's world, to be a word anywhere close to sufficient in describing what's at the "base" of a persons mind. I think the world has a confused idea of what men of science really think like since they are also the most popular sought tools of the devil. The study of math in particular I think is the most profoundly spiritual if it can be learned from outside institutions set up by the snake, and its unfortunate that a lot of people not in our profession assume the opposite.

Please reach out to me jboff@jboff.com if any of this feels familiar to the intuition that has already been placed in your soul.   Your immortal spirit egg may be wanting to hatch, and you will need help from something not driven to your attention by Algorithms or strangers.   Satan has probably left all sorts of landmines in your sensibilities that will react negatively if not disarmed delicately.