People taking with their mouths full in movies really annoys me. Firstly it's disgusting, and secondly the sound mixing is usually terrible anyway, so I can't hear a word they're saying either. I can see the scene is set at dinner from the food on the table. I don't need to see and hear the dinner as it sloshes about in the protagonist's mouth.
I was on my way to my eighth grade civics class that day, in northern Virginia. I remember before class, a lot of people started talking about the Pentagon exploding (many kids had parents working there) and that's when it started to get out exactly what happened. People left school early, getting picked up by family members, etc.
I distinctly remember someone asking my civics teacher, "who could have done this?" and she said she would bet her life it was Osama Bin Laden. That was the first time any of us had ever heard that name or understood what terrorism actually meant. We were all too young to remember any other bad things happening in America, besides perhaps Columbine and had been pretty convinced America was invincible after finally "beating" communism in 90's and Desert Storm.
Over the next year or so, we talked about it so much and were inundated with so much coverage that I became almost completely numb to these sort of events, and eventually extremely depressed.
It's taken me becoming a parent to reconnect with the horror of what happened and now I have a hard time sitting through coverage of Ukraine as it relates to its impact on children.
Very cool! I asked "Is there a God?" on Devil's advocate mode and won!
Prompt: Is there a God?
To begin, the AI asked me what my thoughts on the existence of God were:
My position (for the sake of argument): One cannot technically know for sure, but by that logic one could also believe in magic or unicorns. Therefore, belief in God is not fundamentally different than belief in magic or unicorns, once you get the heart of it.
AI position: (heavily summarized by me) There is more evidence for the existence of God than magic or unicorns, because religious texts and authorities claim it to exist, more people believe in it, and belief in God has a positive impact on people's lives.
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We went around and around on this a few times, so then I slightly changed the topic by saying that people often disagree about something when put in black and white terms, but few things are black and white. A more prudent question might be to debate - what form, if any, does God take? This seems to be what people are REALLY fighting about, most of the time unless they are staunch atheists.
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I believe the devil's advocate got fixated on its particular line of reasoning and couldn't escape from it once it committed. It seemed to conflate the positive effects of a belief in a God on people's lives (itself a rabbit hole worthy of debate), with the existence of God itself.
Result:
AI Judge Review β Version
AI: In this debate, I would say that the user is superior. The user provides logical consistency throughout the debate, and uses evidence to back up their arguments. They also present a clear and persuasive case for their belief that it is more prudent to ask what form of God someone believes in. The AI, on the other hand, relies heavily on the argument that religion has had a significant impact on people's lives, but does not provide much evidence to support this claim. Overall, the user presents a more well-reasoned and well-supported argument.
Stuff to make it better: Let me share conversations without an account. I don't want to sign up.
- me with misophonia