The pope’s AI encyclical was good reading and reminds us to center human dignity, compassion, etc. Lots of ethics to explore with regard to AI and related cultural phenomena.
“Fuck the ethical considerations and rush it through!” - most any american business person.
So when my priest raped me and the church protected him, that was an example of the ethical views and compassion and respect for human dignity you’re talking about?
I guess I always have more to learn from this amazing institution, like how I’m an abomination for being queer.
I am sorry you had gone through that experience. The only church that illuminates at all is the one we can set on fire :')
PS. This thread can easily spin on another reiteration of the arguments around “separating the art from the artist”. That text on AI may have a certain sympathy to some… I haven’t read it. After this post, I thought “maybe I should?”. Thanks to your comment I got centered back in my perspective: “nah. the pope can say whatever he wants to. I won’t be his supporter nor audience.”
I am not here to defend that institution at all.
I grew up so ideologically opposed to these guys that I hate it when they make a good point. 😩
They forgive you.
Is this the beginning of the Butlerian Jihad?
And the Orange Catholic Bible
This might be the first time I agree with a Pope.
Read Laudato Sí.
Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres), perhaps the Pope can grace us all by paying property taxes from this point onward? The church’s unimaginable wealth should be able to cover it… everybody else manages it somehow.
Fun, semi-related fact: the Mormons own approximately 2% of Florida.
Yes, they had a late start, Catholic church has been around for over a thousand years, Mormons need to catch up.
Still, they are doing rather well with around 2 million (sources vary) acres, the fifth largest landowner in USA. That’s very impressive, not paying taxes helps them a great deal financially.
Ask L. Ron Hubbard
Are enough people going to church nowadays to warrant the big cash flows, as in the past? Went home to a family reunion last year and my aunt/uncles 8 children were raised catholic and went to church every Sunday. Discovered none of the kids, or their kids, go to church anymore.
They’re losing membership, but they have been unimaginably wealthy since the Middle Ages, they’ll be fine. Not paying taxes helps, of course.
(that’s just for the USA, they could be gaining membership elsewhere)
I thought that at this point everyone calls him Gandalf.
While we are regulating concepts, I wonder if anyone has tried regulating religions or economic styles.
Both?
Yes. People have tried both of those things. Heck, the encyclical even talks about it. It’s very long
tfw when the normies are so eliminativism-brained that the only people capable of thinking about the ramifications of creating IRL philosophical zombies to control military drones/the media and maybe one day replace all of humanity is the coolest leader of the child predator megacult
