History writer, medievalist, blogger, atheist, sceptic and expatriate Tasmanian. linktr.ee/timoneill
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30 Nov 2025
Just uploaded to the History for Atheists channel, my long awaited interview with Prof. Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism.
youtube.com/watch?v=aKP_YkwZ…
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I've written before about how LLMs are terrible on historical questions and have no discenment between solid academic material and pop history slop. But here's an example of how the way they are programmed to give people the answers they want can be manipulated to make them ...
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... from the evidence he was wrong. And notice how he creatively interprets Grok's replies as though they are supporting him when they aren't. Then we get the leading questions and cherry picking of the replies.
Basic, weak, dishonest, distorted crap, all aided and abetted ...
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... by the endlessly helpful but undiscerning and dumb word prediction machine.
Read books people. Please.
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Oh no, the neo-pagan LARPer blocked me. 🙄 Perhaps someone else could reply to him and explain where I was leading him. The reason he kept failing to support his claim that Christians destroyed a library in the demolition of the Serapeum in 391 is there was no longer any ...
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... Maybe someone else would be so kind as to explain all this to him. 😉
More on the myths about the Great Library and the evidence re the Serapeum below:
historyforatheists.com/2017/…
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And on the myth that Christians hated pagan learning and destroyed Classical literature, see below:
historyforatheists.com/2020/…
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