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There is nothing wrong with Trig or any other mathematics. If there is any sin in that or AI, it is the usage of it. Anyone can use anything in the world for good or evil. Paul wrote that idols were nothing, so that eating meat sacrificed to idols was nothing; however, if you know that someone else is superstitious, then you shouldn't eat it so that their conscience would not be shocked. If someone uses trig or AI for an evil purpose, like manipulating others for personal gain or an evil political agenda, then the sin is in the purpose of what they are using it for. The AI is nothing and is amoral; it is the usage of it that can be good or evil. It depends on what it is used for, that is, the agenda of whoever is using it.I have a Catholic friend who is irritated by the use of computers to process "big data" and develop AI to replace traditional geometry and trigonometry. He thinks it is part of the overall pervasiveness of sin in the world and kind of sin of trigonometry. What do you think?
I am - a little humorously - using sin as a pun for the trigonometric function sin[e]as well as the moral and theological usage where sin is to love what is evil.There is nothing wrong with Trig or any other mathematics. If there is any sin in that or AI, it is the usage of it. Anyone can use anything in the world for good or evil. Paul wrote that idols were nothing, so that eating meat sacrificed to idols was nothing; however, if you know that someone else is superstitious, then you shouldn't eat it so that their conscience would not be shocked. If someone uses trig or AI for an evil purpose, like manipulating others for personal gain or an evil political agenda, then the sin is in the purpose of what they are using it for. The AI is nothing and is amoral; it is the usage of it that can be good or evil. It depends on what it is used for, that is, the agenda of whoever is using it.
I see, that was unclear in what you wrote. It appeared to me that your catholic friend was saying that using AI for trig and geometry was sinful. Sorry I didn't get your humor.I am - a little humorously - using sin as a pun for the trigonometric function sin[e]as well as the moral and theological usage where sin is to love what is evil.
I have a Catholic friend who is irritated by the use of computers to process "big data" and develop AI to replace traditional geometry and trigonometry. He thinks it is part of the overall pervasiveness of sin in the world and kind of sin of trigonometry. What do you think?
In one word, "Huh?" Geometry and trigonometry has nothing to do with "big data." AI, on the other hand, can be applied by it. It's like the chicken hiring a fox to protect the henhouse from weasels.I have a Catholic friend who is irritated by the use of computers to process "big data" and develop AI to replace traditional geometry and trigonometry. He thinks it is part of the overall pervasiveness of sin in the world and kind of sin of trigonometry. What do you think?
And I'm still sleepy and not caffeinated. Though my calculators and yes, slide rules, have "Sin" on them, I still think of it as "Sine."I am - a little humorously - using sin as a pun for the trigonometric function sin[e]as well as the moral and theological usage where sin is to love what is evil.
Well, there is sin, and cos in trigonometry.I have a Catholic friend who is irritated by the use of computers to process "big data" and develop AI to replace traditional geometry and trigonometry. He thinks it is part of the overall pervasiveness of sin in the world a kind of sin of trigonometry. What do you think?
If one is using an AI tool to get to step-by-step solutions on geometry or trig homework assignments they are cheating ... just like using a calculator to solve addition, division, square root, n log(x) problems would be cheating in the old days.I have a Catholic friend who is irritated by the use of computers to process "big data" and develop AI to replace traditional geometry and trigonometry. He thinks it is part of the overall pervasiveness of sin in the world a kind of sin of trigonometry. What do you think?
Yep, and also AI is pretty bad at math, especially ChatGPT from what I have heard, so if one uses AI, they would probably get the answer wrong.If one is using an AI tool to get to step-by-step solutions on geometry or trig homework assignments they are cheating ... just like using a calculator to solve addition, division, square root, n log(x) problems would be cheating in the old days.
But is that a "general theology" question?
That idea did not age well with calculatorsYep, and also AI is pretty bad at math, especially ChatGPT from what I have heard, so if one uses AI, they would probably get the answer wrong.
Correct. Eventually AI will get better at math, just like calculators improved rapidly.That idea did not age well with calculators
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