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I want to see confirmation on this before I share it with IRL people, but it’s the most plausible thing in the world

Another cool thing is trying to deduce which of my students are in danger of not just academic trouble, but immigration trouble if I report them. Good news for Iranians, I guess.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

There weren't random laypeople in like 1700 going "erm what about the Bull of Parma in 1172"?

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

I mean yeah, but also I wasn't there in like 1650, and I'm not a trained theologian or a trained historian. There's no specific reason for lay people to even know about some papal bull from like 1200—this is a function of an Internet society.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

It's just so funny to imagine that back in the good old days they only cared about saving souls. Yeah, that's the ticket.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

I love how because of AI I have to go through and meticulously check all the sources my students cite in their essays to see if they're fake or not (they're fake depressingly often). So much time saved, thanks Sam!

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

"Popes and bishops today are subject to worldly influence, unlike in the 14th century!"

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

But even more than specifically papal teaching, the vast majority of the world's bishops are on the same page as the pope on all the matters that these people object to.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 5h

I mean it's also flatly true that someone alive today does not have access to the full context of any past statement, and is unable to evaluate, for example, how much a role worldly concerns played. It sounds Orwellian, but only the Magisterium can authoritatively interpret the Magisterium.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 7h

This is especially true when we're talking about a machine that by nature cannot possibly "know" anything and can only curate and regurgitate existing human views.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 7h

The real problem here is the illusion that an LLM can represent some Platonic "unbiased" view on a given subject; aside from God Himself, no one and no thing can have a complete, comprehensive, objective view of reality as it is. An LLM will *always* exhibit some perspective, some bias.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 17h

Also this is absolutely not something new

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 22h

Are there more of those ribbons on the flags every day? And what even are those?

𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 22h

Classic Bluesky exchange. Guy asserts WW2 vets voted for T2, guy corrects him, first guy says “akshually Reagan ‘84 was the same thing”, another guy implies WW2 vets largely did not vote for Reagan (who famously won like every state).

𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how an arch-conservative like Hardon almost always come off as a squishy lib when compared to stuff trads try to pretend is Church teaching.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously if every country did a mid-20th century Ireland and Quebec, the Church would be flourishing everywhere!

𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

In one sense, but we've also become less tolerant of rigorist views. One of those "getting stricter" things.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

The funny thing is, the Vatican Library is not like, a consecrated place of worship afaik ... so is he just saying that in a "real" properly Catholic state, no one would be allowed to practice any other religion anywhere? Was this even true of the Papal States?

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

Well they all think Muslims are pagans anyway

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

true but also I think it’s more a case of the Church in the past being all over the place on these kinds of questions rather than a totally consistent position.

IOW my impression is that it’s much more defined now with much less room for variation.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

I actually wonder if this is something that would have been allowed for in past centuries and I’m thinking probably yes but I have no explicit basis

𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

This had me wondering what the origin of this word might be, and I was definitely not expecting what I found.

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

Not really off brand for a Nobel Peace Prize recipient though

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 1d

Like it's great that people very publicly profess faith in Jesus Christ, specifically ... but doesn't it matter what positions and actions are then associated with those professed beliefs?