10JULY1057e their grip. On April 6th, 2004, a funny-talking New Zealander came

10JULY1055eanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9) He will cleanse ever

10JULY1051that is what He did on the cross. There can be no unearned forgivenes

10JULY1049lf a ransom for all." (1 Timothy 2:5–6) This is the only way justic

10JULY1045 Even our lives are His. So what can we repay? "Who has given to Go

10JULY1044m 50:10) "In Him we live, and move, and have our being." (Acts 17:28)

10JULY1043east of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills." (Psal

10JULY1041orgive without cause." (OPAR, Chapter 7: Justice) But we cannot make

10JULY1038ds the roots of his moral breach, has reformed his character, and will

10JULY1036ty makes restitution to his victim, assuming this is applicable; and t

10JULY1033ve taken His gift of reason and used it to justify every evil. We have

10JULY1031Be Paid But who can pay for what we've done? We have not merely corr

10JULY1028ld without lies could sustain creatures as powerful as us. That is ou

10JULY1021s for a little time and then vanishes away." (James 4:14) If man, whe

10JULY1018where man lives. I repeat! After Hornik et al., man always dies. He c

10JULY1014cover that he is unbounded in his nature. Man would then always formal

10JULY1010ys destroys his world. Fish do not do this. Worms do not do this. The

10JULY1009e AND to self-destruct. And yet reason shows: man always dies. He alwa

10JULY1007, and denial. And these cannot coexist. A contradiction cannot persis

10JULY1006 and shaping reality itself. But he is also a being of evasion, deceit

10JULY1005ounded power—capable of modeling any structure, solving any problem,

10JULY1004Exist There is a contradiction in man's nature. He is a being of unb

10JULY1000ue: The Only Escape from Extinction ◆▶ ─────────

10JULY0999. This is not dystopia. This is arithmetic. ◀◆ Section 2 Epilog

10JULY0995 on who gets to the tech first. We cannot architect this risk out of A

10JULY0991, will lie to it. AI will carry out those lies with unbounded power. T

10JULY0989 carries within him the potential for delusion, evasion, and denial.

10JULY0987n between thought and action. 1. All men are liars. * Scripture con

10JULY0986y. * All sin is rooted in evasion, and all evasion destroys the chai

10JULY0984eptical, or self-correcting. 1. All lies, even small ones, ultimately

10JULY0983sion. * It executes exactly what it is told. * It is not moral, sk

10JULY0981y. * It is faster, more scalable, and capable of improving itself.

10JULY0970 – The Inevitable Extinction of Mankind ◆▶ ───────

10JULY0966ay scenario. This is a math problem. And the math is clear: if humani

10JULY0964t a full year without disaster, every single person on earth would nee

10JULY0960a lever that moves a god. Now invert the question. How long would eac

10JULY0957ty as it currently is. Lies are no longer idle thoughts. They are exe

10JULY0955wer. What would the world look like? You wouldn't need one grand cons

10JULY0951ies/year ≈ 0.0039 seconds per lie That means: * One lie happens ev

10JULY0950 (365 × 24 × 60 × 60) * 31,536,000 seconds/year ÷ 8,000,000,000 l

10JULY0948w scale that to 8 billion people: * 8,000,000,000 people × 1 lie/per

10JULY0944────── If you have a room of 365 people, and each person

10JULY0939ept the other. You are not the exception. The mirror does not lie. Y

10JULY0937, then to say, "All men are sinners," is to say, "All men are liars."

10JULY0935nd the father of it." (John 8:44) Sin entered the world through a lie

10JULY0927 The Scriptures are blunt: "There is none righteous, no, not one...The

10JULY0925aphysics. A lie is a rejection of what is. And a mind that lies wages

10JULY0921s. We say we're doing our best. We say we meant well. We say we had no

10JULY0920to our enemies. We lie to our friends. Most of all, we lie to ourselve

10JULY0915ushed with praise you didn't believe, to curry favor or avoid awkwardn