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Author of “Cheer Up! The Life and Ministry of Jack Miller.” TE/Pastor in the PCA. Married to Vicki with 4 children (3 married) and 3+2 grandkids.

 Mount Juliet, TN
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Joined September 2009
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Tristan Harris explains the AI race through incentives. Underneath his word is an older one: presupposition. And “digital life,” measured against zoe, psyche, and bios, turns out to be something the Bible already has a name for. thejackmillerproject.com/202…

Incentives, Presuppositions, and “Digital Life”

Tristan Harris explains the AI race in the language of incentives. Underneath his word is what Van Til called presuppositions and what Jack Miller called a bad master. And “digital life…

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Two AI interviews this month said everyone may die. In four hours the only death anyone named was the death of the body. Jack Miller would have asked what they mean by die. The Bible has three words for life, and the death they fear is the smaller one. thejackmillerproject.com/202…
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"As the experienced teacher has learned, no reasoned argument can overthrow the position of the practicing child anarchist. He is a democrat with a vengeance. In his eyes, all opinions are equal, save that in the case of his own opinion it happens to be more equal." (1/7)
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Jack's point in the section is that when a home or a school tries to remove all inequality between adult and child, the child ends up as the center of power. (6/7)
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The school does not teach anarchy as a doctrine. It produces the anarchist by treating him as sovereign and then wonders where he came from. We have been doing that from kindergarten for sixty years. The practicing child anarchist is now forty-five and running things. (7/7)
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thejackmillerproject.com/202… Jack Miller wrote that American schools ran on Dewey's doctrine of man: “man is what can be made of him.” Fears and hopes for AI rest on that doctrine. This essay follows his argument of the Christian doctrine of man, and asks “so what” if Jack was right?

Make of Him What You Will

Jack Miller wrote in 1964 that American schools had adopted John Dewey’s doctrine of man: man is what can be made of him. The fear of artificial intelligence and the hope for it rest on that same…

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“Doctrinal soundness includes more than formal adherence to a right system of doctrine. It also must include wholeness, clear focus, and balance … (1/3) — C. John “Jack” Miller, “Reflections on Faculty Discussion” (1977)
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… It means the major doctrines are to be given their due as major doctrines, with secondary issues related to them in a way that shows the derivative character of these secondary matters … (2/3)
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You might even say that balance means having the whole sweep of major doctrine in the foreground of one’s thinking. Seen in this light, then, theological error is in part at least permitting major Biblical truths to slip into the background of one’s thinking and practice.” (3/3)
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“What is a woman?” In 1964 Jack Miller wrote that schools had no doctrine of man and had adopted a rule against asking for one. "I'm not a biologist" is that rule at work. My first essay on his unpublished three-volume manuscript, Man in Modern Education. thejackmillerproject.com/202…
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