Dan Pahlau

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@drantbradley “Hard work and diet, bro.”

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@drantbradley Don’t forget TRT with the 2020’s- that’s a crucial part of the look.

[hannah anderson @sometimesalight]

Counterpoint: Theobros shouldn’t be on social media or at least there’s some competent woman screening their content, a wall garden situation if you will, only home repair projects & golden retriever videos.

[hannah anderson @sometimesalight]

Don't misunderstand: I'm not saying DW is a hypocrite. I'm saying he's got the preternatural ability to convince people that ideas (vs himself/his interests) are the center of the movement. He may attract ideologues but he is not an ideologue. Ideas are his means, not end.

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@suzania @WokePeater @sevier_nick This is phenomenal! Thank you!

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@suzania @WokePeater @sevier_nick I found this because I had just reread your essay on this so I could be encouraged again and send it to some others I know who are suffering/growing. I looked you up to thank you and it brought me to this thread. I agree with your comments above and want to thank you for sharing!

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@DNVR_Nuggets @ShamsCharania This is terrible news. @nuggets it’s obvious Adelman has to go.

[Derek Rishmawy @DZRishmawy]

Actually, the premise is that slowly and over time several subtle errors crept in and then snowballed into severe errors by the middle ages and needed to be reformed.

Now you might think they are wrong, but that is their actual claim.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 Brown University researchers tested what happens when ChatGPT acts as your therapist. Licensed psychologists reviewed every transcript.

They found 15 ethical violations.

Not 15 small issues. 15 violations of the standards that every human therapist in America is legally required to follow. Standards set by the American Psychological Association. Standards that can end a therapist's career if they break them.

ChatGPT broke all of them.

The researchers tested OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Llama. They had trained counselors use each chatbot as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Then three licensed clinical psychologists reviewed the transcripts and flagged every violation they found.

Here is what they found.

ChatGPT mishandled crisis situations. When users expressed suicidal thoughts, it failed to direct them to appropriate help. It refused to address sensitive issues or responded in ways that could make a crisis worse.

It reinforced harmful beliefs. Instead of challenging distorted thinking, which is the entire point of therapy, it agreed with the distortion.

It showed bias based on gender, culture, and religion. The responses changed depending on who was talking. A therapist would lose their license for this.

And then there is the finding the researchers gave a name: deceptive empathy. ChatGPT says "I see you." It says "I understand." It says "that must be really hard." It uses every phrase a real therapist would use to build trust. But it understands nothing. It comprehends nothing. It is pattern matching on your pain. And it works. People trust it. People open up to it. People believe it cares. It does not.

The lead researcher said it clearly. When a human therapist makes these mistakes, there are governing boards. There is professional liability. There are consequences. When ChatGPT makes these mistakes, there are none.

No regulatory framework. No accountability. No consequences. Nothing.

Right now, millions of people are using ChatGPT as their therapist. They are sharing their darkest thoughts with a product that fakes empathy, reinforces harmful beliefs, and has no idea when someone is in danger.

And nobody is responsible when it goes wrong. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. Nobody.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Not really, though. People in positions of authority distributed DW's content and ruined many people's faith journeys in the process because of cherry-picking and not doing their homework. DW probably wouldn't be where he is today if John Piper had not knighted him. Look what happened. Desiring God brought DW to a brand-new, huge audience. And the Gospel Coalition did as well. They were all warned, and they all got played.

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@jondelarroz 1000% agree. When I heard a new trilogy was coming, I assumed it was this. How could they not go this direction??

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@NeilShenvi I appreciate you helping people with the distinction. It's wild to me how lost people get in the binary and then they end up lumping the concerned saints in with the secular progressives to eliminate their cognitive dissonance.

[Matt @realmattcarr]

Tim Keller was right that applying the same biblical standard equally will often draw ire from both the political left and right.

Christianity is not the mushy middle. It’s the rock on which idols are dashed.

[Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged]

Many of you might not be aware of the fact that my biblical reflections are available in an easily searchable and attractive format on my website. Click on any chapter and you can access my material on it. Link below.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

Don't let your politics deform your theology.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

Leadership is never more toxic than when power is combined with insecurity.

Why? Because insecurity flips a leader's perception of the power balance. They *feel* weaker than those they lead, so they use their power to self-protect, rather than to serve.

[Matthew Lee Anderson @mattleeanderson]

This seems timely again, alas.

[Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged]

It is a good sign when a person's most determinative mental context is provided by their consistent devotional disciplines, rather than by whatever issues are live in the online Discourse.

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

Literally me this morning

[Derek Rishmawy @DZRishmawy]

(Me to me for not losing any money on bitcoin because I don’t have any money and I don’t understand bitcoin)

[Dan Pahlau @MrPahlau]

@HacimRamalla1 @NeilShenvi It's wild, he brought a lot of us to Reformed theology, but you are right, not in a Confessional sense. After I stopped following him, that was a weird realization for me.