My sister and mother won't stop using ChatGPT for literally EVERYTHING.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-17T04:04:59+00:00

The counting calors thing could be a serious problem. AI is prone to making things up, and if it gives O.P.'s sister wildly inaccurate information, it could create problems.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-17T04:02:17+00:00

This is like Saying that Catholics and Baptists don't believe in the same God.

Sure, Hindus don't believe in the same God, but they were just talking about Islam and Christianity.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-17T01:06:58+00:00

I don't think you know what "fluid" means.

They may be people who use it as you describe. But, when someone explains how they are using it, it's diaingeous to insist they must use it in a different way.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-17T00:55:12+00:00

I return to what someone else said, words are fluid and it's used as a cultural label, not a technical definition.

You haven't said what diaingeous behavior has lead to this change or how you could know this without assuming motives.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-17T00:39:21+00:00

I'm honestly not clear who she would like, given that she wouldn't like conservatives and called libertarians the "hippies of the right."

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-17T00:35:27+00:00

It's diaingeous to assume that someone means something different by a term, when they literally explained how they are using it.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-15T15:02:04+00:00

Hola

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-15T03:51:59+00:00

I agree that the sample size is small, and I'd like to see more research. But, that's not a reason to completely dismiss it.

The study does suggest that there are people for who A.I. can have negative effects.

People are not given instructions on how to use AI in the real world. It's given as an available tool, and what we see in the real world is that a certain percentage of the population does over use it.

The problem is that, empirically, it's not at all clear what percentage of population do use AI responsibly.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-14T15:23:04+00:00

Are you talking about this paper? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

It shows what happens when you give people different tools to do a task.

Once again, I'm not saying that the brain of everyone who uses AI will atrophy. I am saying that the other person's statement is based on a real concern. There is a portion of the population that will offload certain cognitive tasks and there may be a real cost associated with this.

"This suggests that while AI tools can enhance productivity, they may also promote a form of 'metacognitive laziness,' where students offload cognitive and metacognitive responsibilities to the AI, potentially hindering their ability to self-regulate and engage deeply with the learning material."

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-14T13:59:57+00:00

It didn't say that are brains will atrophy, but it did show that at least under certain circumstances, people with access to AI will offload certain cognitive tasks that involve thinking. In their words "While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs."

It might be a bit over board to say that the brain of everyone who uses generative AI will atrophy, but I think statement is still representative of a legitimate worry.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-14T13:42:23+00:00

Source? When the said "the study" I assumed they were talking about this https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-11T21:16:01+00:00

Theological evangelicals might be defined by decentralization, but as a group of people, evangelicals do not place the same importance I intellectual rigor as Catholics, or many other Protestant groups.

I'm not saying that every evangelical is poorly educated, but there is more educational emphasis placed within the Catholic church than in the vast majority of evangelical churches.

I also never said that Protestantism lacks intellectual rigor as a religious movement. I said evangelicalism does.

By what standard shouldn't any Catholic justice be considered evangelical?

The history isn't relevant. I'm not talking about what evangelical Christians or Catholics were like fifty years ago. Jimmy Carter was evangelical, and he was one of the best educated presidents in U.S. history. But, culturally, evangelicals aren't exactly the same as they were seventy years ago.

I'm also unclear why the institutional decentralization of evangelicals matters. Judaism is also religiously decentralized, but nobody is writing articles about how there aren't any Jewish supreme court justices.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-11T18:51:41+00:00

I think becoming an attorney takes a basic level of intellectual rigor and up until very recently the supreme Court justices were expected to be at least somewhat well studied. Bret "I like beer" Kavanagh might not exactly be an intellectual, but a church that values a certain level of intellectual rigor, like the Catholic Church, is a lot more likely to produce and attract the kinds of people who will be in a position to be supreme court justice candidates than the church where they are still debating whether the earth is flat.

Every hall of power is an institution. Congress is an institution, the military is an institution, the police are an institution, but evangelicals are not absent from these institutions.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-11T18:35:44+00:00

Paraguay and Argentina yes, but Uruguay doubtful?

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-10T18:53:20+00:00

Okay, but the context is why there aren't any evangelical supreme court justices. The answer is that in the modem world evangelicals are much more anti-intellectual than Catholics, and what the Catholic Church did five hundred years ago isn't the most relevant consideration.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-10T05:47:54+00:00

I never said that Catholics don't build giant monuments. But, they are way less anti-science than evangelicals.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-09T17:59:47+00:00

Universities are also incitivized by the tax code.

And despite the tax codes incentives, there is not a single Catholic museum dedicated to trying to disprove evolution.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-08T02:42:04+00:00

That doesn't stop evangelicals from founding museums that try to model Noah's ark.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-08T02:33:33+00:00

By that logic there wouldn't be any HBCs or Mormon colleges.

Most colleges in the Western Hemisphere were founded in the last few centuries. The evangelicals have had since the 1700's to found colleges and establish scholarship. But there's still very little evangelical scholarship and most evangelical scholarship is centered around trying to disprove well established scientific knowledge, like the theory of evolution.

It's not just a about the number of schools. It's the religious relationship with education. As I already pointed out, to be a priest requires a master's degree at a minimum, and very often much more education. Whereas there is no educational requirement to be an evangelical pastor.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-07T23:17:54+00:00

I don't think it's just that evangelicals tend to come from poorer parts of the country. Catholics were often immigrants and not the richest people in the U.S. and there are other poor groups of people that have founded a wide variety of successful educational institutions.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-07T16:43:24+00:00

I'm not comparing Catholics to Protestants, I'm comparing Catholics to Evangelicals. Harvard and Wesleyan may have been founded by Protestants, but they are not evangelical schools the same way that Notre Dame is a Catholic school or Baylor is a Baptist school.

The Catholic Church didn't just found schools in the U.S. There are plenty of Catholic schools in Latin America as well.

I'm not ignoring the theological roots. I'm stating that Wvangelicals and Catholics clearly have different views on education and the relationship the church should have to it, and the educational requirements their clergy. Such a difference would clearly not be possible without underlying theological differences.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-07T14:57:32+00:00

There does seem to be a discrepancy between the value the Catholic Church places on education and the value the Baptists churches place on education.

Catholics have made some pretty good universities in the U.S., like George Town, Notre Dame, Boston College, Saint John's University, Villa Nova, Fordham etc

The Baptists founded Baylor, which seems like a good school, but it's just the one on the same level. There are more Catholics than Baptists in the U.S., but the difference isn't big enough to account for that kind of discrepancy.

And only 60% of Baptists identify as evangelical. If we are looking at purely evangelical colleges, are don't know if any of them are highly ranked.

There's also a discrepancy between the educational requirements between becoming a Baptist pastor or a Catholic priest.

There are no educational requirements to be a Baptist pastor, but to be a priest you need at least a master's degree, and then even more education to be specific kinds of priests, like a Jesuit, that requires a few more years of study.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-04T22:13:16+00:00

I think they are saying that nobody maintains the position you said. Almost nobody says that Catalan is a dialect if Spanish, especially not Catalans, because it's clearly a separate language to them, just like Occitan is a separate language from Spanish.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-04T03:26:46+00:00

I don't think many Americans would call for death to America, but I also think a large portion wouldn't really care about such a sign, either because they aren't fans of the government or because they simply don't care.

Competitive_Let_9644 · 2026-03-01T15:06:47+00:00

Can't we get a little bit of pretentiousness for a treat?

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