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The first large scale use of the printing press outside books was to print indulgences: > In the teaching of the Catholic Church, an indulgence (Latin: indulge
by llm_trw 2y ago
The first large scale use of the printing press outside books was to print indulgences:
> In the teaching of the Catholic Church, an indulgence (Latin: indulgentia, from indulgeo, 'permit') is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for (forgiven) sins".[1] The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes an indulgence as "a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions…"[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
This directly lead to the reformation and two centuries of religious wars in Europe which proportionally killed more people than both the world wars combined.
The printing press has more blood on it than ink. By contrast the worst you can say about art models is that they are 'derivative' whatever that means.
- taminka 2y agoprinting press has legitimate applications besides printing indulgences, ai image generators have no legitimate applications one technology could be used to do bad things, the other technology is guaranteed to only be used to do bad things
- llm_trw 2y ago>ai image generators have no legitimate applications They are amazing replacements for the clone tool from photo shop. >one technology could be used to do bad things, the other technology is guaranteed to only be used to do bad things One technology is used to make pictures, the other to commit genocide. My dude, I don't often say it, but go out and touch grass.
- taminka 2y agoi have to ask, do you also count world war victims as victims of the printing press because military orders and propaganda were printed on paper? is the the telephone, copper in the wires and electromagnetism itself also complicit in genocide, because they were used for communication in nazi germany?
- ben_w 2y ago> the other technology is guaranteed to only be used to do bad things That would require all images to be bad. Why can't I have a daugerotype of a Victorian era werewolf Prime Minister standing in front of 10 Downing Street? What harm does that cause anyone?
- dr_dshiv 2y agoIndulgences also paid for the art of the renaissance. It was because pope Leo X was so into art that he stepped up indulgences, causing Luther to protest. So renaissance art has more blood..?
- llm_trw 2y agoIf only he'd had art models to reduce the need for indulgences to fund art.