Daily Newsletter - Saturday, June 13, 2026

Here's what I published on Saturday, June 13, 2026:

Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints

All the discourse on social media over the last week+ has been expectedly pointless after the Dept of Defense listed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a non-Christian denomination for chaplaincy purposes.

If you'd like a thorough, expert treatment of what Latter-day Saints believe about Jesus Christ, I can't recommend this one highly enough. It will dispel common misconceptions but also won't sugarcoat differences that matter to Nicene Christianity.

To say that Latter-day Saints worship an utterly different Jesus is, at once, rashly uncharitable, and yet precisely true. On the one hand, it cannot be said that LDS theology teaches a Jesus who is totally foreign to the Christ of Christianity and completely devoid of any similarities whatsoever ... On the other hand, LDS theology irreversibly departs from traditional Christianity ... These differences are very serious and overshadow every shared conviction between Christianity and Mormonism about the nature of the Son of God. So, who is Jesus Christ according to Mormonism?

Who Is Jesus Christ According to Mormonism? | Kyle Beshears

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A Fed, but for AI

I'd looked forward to spending more time with Anthropic's Fable model today, but alas the government had other plans. As usual, Zvi has the most thoughtful, thorough commentary on things.

I am however taking the position that the implementation method chosen by the government, with no warning, was deeply terrible, even given our options with our current very terrible level of relevant state capacity, and reflects some combination of at least one of either malice or a deep misunderstanding by decision makers of how jailbreaks and cyber security work.

It makes me wonder if the answer is something like a Federal Reserve, but for AI. Certainly AI safety is a serious enough issue for government oversight, and too serious an issue for reactionary incompetence.

I know it's not a perfect analogy, but at the very least something with political independence, clear measures, and experts who actually understand what they're overseeing would do immense good. The Fed is one of America's best national government institutions that we have right now. It feels like a good watermark for AI regulation.

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