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"To put a bullshit machine on the internet, in the name of Christ, is reckless. It's almost certain that it will make stuff up at some point. This is bad enough
by cess11 2y ago
"To put a bullshit machine on the internet, in the name of Christ, is reckless. It's almost certain that it will make stuff up at some point. This is bad enough in itself, if we care about truth, but it will also have many negative consequences. For example, Muslims will spot the fabrications, even if there are only one or two, and use it to discredit your work."
What a weird jab at "Muslims". I don't think this person is fit to do apologetics, since they are unaware of the rather harsh challenges to christian theology put forward by e.g. modern physics, capitalism and thinkers like Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, which are much more serious than nitpicking "discredit" put forward by some equally naive dawa enthusiast.
The AGI LLM religion itself is a much more credible threat to whatever flavour of protestant baptism.
- tines 2y agoI don’t think it was a jab, the implication is that Muslims know the scripture very well, and won’t be fooled by erroneous quotations.
- cess11 2y agoThat's still a weird generalisation and pinpointing of muslims. There are billions of them, most of whom care little about minutiae in protestant christian canon. Coming from someone in a rather small and modern christian denomination that has spent a lot of time griefing about "paedo-baptism" I don't think it's actually about being impressed by 'knowledge of scripture'.
- tines 2y ago> most of whom care little about minutiae in protestant christian canon Muslim and Christian scripture overlap by a large amount, it's not that they care about Christian canon, it's that they study the same books. Muslims have the stereotype that they are much more "serious" about their religion than Christians. It's not a negative thing.
- cess11 2y agoIt's absolutely unsound to generalise over a billion people like that.
- tines 2y agohttps://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/insight-therapy/201809/stereotype-accuracy-displeasing-truth?amp https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/insight-therapy/20...
- cess11 2y agoTo save whoever reads this a click, it's a link to an irrelevant article about the problems and ethics of measuring accuracy of commonly held beliefs based in prejudice along racial, gender and similar lines. It's presented instead of evidence of the accuracy of the earlier generalisation, because such evidence does not exist.
- tines 2y agoNot quite! I presented no evidence that my generalization was correct, but you didn't say that my generalization was incorrect, you said that "to generalise" a large number of people is unsound, which is refuted by studies of a phenomenon called stereotype accuracy. You can argue that this stereotype of Muslims is wrong if you like (or that there is no such stereotype widely held), but that's a different conversation. I don't get the feeling that you're arguing in good faith though, so I'll bid adieu now!