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Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
- Betelbuddy 8mo agoThe Pope will change his mind with Claude Opus 5.2
- rain_iwakura 8mo agolol
- tokenless 8mo agoIf the Pope doesn't start spending every waking minute in a CC terminal he will be left behind and lose his job. /s
- Betelbuddy 8mo agoStephen Wolfram is the Antichrist - https://youtu.be/-yzdjziS-bo https://youtu.be/-yzdjziS-bo
- tempodox 8mo agoYou forgot the “/s”.
- alansaber 8mo agoCorporations vs organised religion on artificial intelligence? This is way cooler than the cold war.
- tsimionescu 8mo agoIf you want to play a game about it, the Deus Ex series includes this detail too (especially in the sequel and prequels).
- verdverm 8mo agoWhat does it mean to search yourself for words, even if they fall short of the eleganance that Ai can produce? "What to do when Ai says 'I love you'?" discusses this conundrum https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when-ai-says-i-love-you-we-talked-to-an-artificial-intimacy-expert https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when... I've been paying attention to Sherry Turkle since I caught this show over the summer. She was on a panel at Davos titled "Swipe Left on Reality" which was the first time I heard her use the phrase "frictionless relationships" to describe what interacting with Ai is like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C9Gb3rVMTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C9Gb3rVMTg
- aanet 8mo agoThanks for the WEF video with Sherry Turkle. <3 Every word of hers is dripping with wisdom, and I feel not enough people are paying attention to her. She talks of "artificial intimacy" and "pretend empathy" and how people are addicted to ChatGPT and its ilk primarily because of the pretension / sycophancy, and choosing that over the real-life friction, disagreements and negotiation required and necessary for healthy relationships IRL. And how social media is a gateway drug to chatbots. Recommended watch. (Thanks!) Her book _Alone Together_ is also worth reading.
- wolvesechoes 8mo ago> phrase "frictionless relationships" Peak post-modern world, where everything is more real than real, yet doesn't have any friction of the real.
- verdverm 8mo agoThe Matrix has it wrong, the people went willingly, even excitedly
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- tomhow 8mo agoThis is exactly the type of comment we're trying to avoid on HN. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer. Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- cyberpunk 8mo agoThey could even finally be a source for good if they’d actually use some of the billions they collect. Has anyone actually directly encountered a single vatican sponsored charity or program in the wild? It seems quite a morally bankrupt organisation to me, and i’m not sure what if anything it really has to do with Christianity or Christians anyore.
- abrenuntio 8mo agoFrom the Wikipedia page on the Catholic Church: "By means of Catholic charities and beyond, the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world." Just yesterday I went to see a presentation of a priest appointed to a massive parish in the rural area of South Sudan, setting up schools and bringing in aid.
- scns 8mo ago> the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world. Hm. In germany Catholic day care is funded by the state ie taxes by over 90%. Military chaplains 100%. Would be surprised if the difference is bigger in schools and hospitals. I heard that in France there is an actual separation of church and state and as a result the church is rather poor.
- graemep 8mo agoGermany is the only country that does that. In the rest of the world the church is poorer but is still a leading provider of education and healthcare, especially in poor countries.
- zdragnar 8mo agoTithes to the church are collected via taxes in Germany (Kirchensteuer), so you could argue the church itself is funded by taxes.
- kombookcha 8mo agoGuarding your heart with elegant nonsense you don't really mean is a classic defensive posture, and probably is directly impeding their ability to be present in emotionally intense (and often difficult) situations. It reminded me of this: >There is a scene in the opening of Into the Abyss. Werner Herzog is interviewing a Reverend who in fifteen minutes will go in to be with a boy as the boy is led to the gurney to be executed by injection. >The Reverend is talking about how the Lord works in mysterious ways, and so on—it is exactly the type of conversation you want to avoid. It is very ChatGPT. It is the Reverend repeating things he’s said before—words that protect him, that allow him to perform the role of Reverend, instead of being what he is: a man named Lopez, who will soon have to watch a boy die. >At one point, the Reverend, as a part of a monologue about the beauty of God’s creation, mentions that he sometimes meditates on the beauty of the squirrels he sees on the golf course. Herzog, standing in a graveyard with nameless crosses, says, with mad Bavarian seriousness, “Please describe an encounter with a squirrel.” >Lopez is a bit surprised by the question, but he takes it in a playful spirit—his voice lifts, joyously. He starts to talk faster. (This is where the conversation shifts into the type you want.) He is no longer saying versions of things he has said before, he’s not protecting himself, he’s just there. >From that point on, it takes about ten seconds before he’s crying. >In interviews, Herzog likes to mention this conversation to explain his craft. “But how on earth did you know to say that?” says the interviewer. “Were you just trying to say something unexpected to unbalance him?” “No, it was not random”, Herzog says. “I knew I had to say those exact words. Because I know the heart of men.” https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/looking-for-alice https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/looking-for-alice
- brna-2 8mo agoWhen you stop to think of it, historically people have told their secrets to the church, now they also tell them to AI. There is some kind of relation there, the power that people willingly give to an organization. The Ads are coming so I guess people will start to think about it a bit more.
- Aeglaecia 8mo agofor whatever merit it may achieve, concentrated attack upon religion fails to account for resultantly deprecated cultural aspects that are vital to continued functioning society, and this blind spot is not discussed often enough - in this case ,confession to a priest is significantly less evil than confession to sam altmans torture machine in the making
- brna-2 8mo agoI am sorry if you read it as an attack on religion, it was an attack on big AI. If religion sends or even needs to send data upstream is not part of my knowledge, but AI does. But church did have the best understanding of who is who in a local society and AI companies will use this data in a more concrete way. I just drew the parallel to get the gears spinning. I agree that the organized religion was crucial glue to society trough history.
- raphman 8mo agoTo the best of my knowledge, traditional confessions have always been processed locally, not sent upstream¹. AFAICT, it is much harder to get a priest to reveal your confession than it is to get a log of your ChatGPT sessions. ¹) I first wrote "not sent to the cloud", but if God is all-knowing, records of all sins are already in the cloud, just not accessible by support staff.
- devsda 8mo ago> first wrote "not sent to the cloud", but if God is all-knowing, records of all sins are already in the cloud, just not accessible by support staff. I heard there is a GDPR'esque Right of access(SAR) to see your records if you ask for it nicely in person.
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- Tepix 8mo agoYour comment has a very strong AI stench.
- enjoykaz 8mo agoA comment about how nobody can tell facades from the real thing — and the first response is someone trying to tell. I appreciate the live demo.
- pnw_throwaway 8mo agoTouch grass
- jamilton 8mo agoPeople can tell. The premise is false. It’s sometimes hard to tell, obviously it’s hard to ascertain false negatives and false positives, but it’s usually pretty obvious.
- llbbdd 8mo agoIt's a tell that you think people can't tell.
- anovikov 8mo agoI guess that's the point of it. It's kinda hard to doubt what they're saying anw.
- throwawaysoxjje 8mo agoThis post is a prime example of why the Pope said what he did.
- sieabahlpark 8mo ago[dead]
- dhruv3006 8mo agoBtw pope is a math phd.
- OtomotO 8mo agoImagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
- usrnm 8mo agoA lot of very bad things were historically done by men of science
- llbbdd 8mo ago"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.
- somenameforme 8mo agoEven better is, 'I aim at the Stars! (but sometimes I hit London)'. "I Aim at the Stars" was the name of a real biographical movie made about him in the 60s. It feels like that exact title had to have been chosen, at least partly, tongue in cheek.
- keiferski 8mo agoJust wait until you read what people like Von Neumann thought about preemptively using nuclear weapons. It turns out that scientific brilliance has basically zero overlap with ethical wisdom. Science is great, but it’s not a replacement for philosophy.
- wolvesechoes 8mo agoHow much better? Every honest description of Catholic Church, as any institution of this size and history, needs to be very nuanced. One of such nuances is a fact that it was one of the main, and sometimes strictly main, supporters and drivers of education and scientific progress. Other such nuance is that it very often punished and persecuted attempts to bring education and scientific progress. Both views of the Church are true. That's what nuance is.
- johanvts 8mo agoI wish the Catholic Church would use that approach more often.
- karel-3d 8mo agoChurch in general has neutral stance towards AI. Pope himself rather negative. On the other hand; the local parishes often love posting AI generated devotional pictures, and the laity loves it even more; and they look horrible. I saw sooo many AI Marys.
- tgv 8mo agoAI Mary, bereft of grace, paid for by sinners. I left the church a long time ago, but this still makes me sad.
- karel-3d 8mo agono really, go to any popular Facebook group for laity and it's all AI Marys. The "shrimp jesus" meme got popular some months ago, but, in Catholic groups, it's mostly AI Marys
- midtake 8mo agoThe article seems to be overreacting to a small part of Pope Leo's talk. It seems to me his real point was that using AI to hasten writing homilies leads priests to treat this work as busy work instead of thoughtful, focused work.
- emil-lp 8mo agoPriests who use generative AI to craft their homilies should openly share the prompts they rely on, because those prompts shape the theology, tone, and pastoral direction of what is proclaimed from the pulpit. In a community rooted in trust and accountability—especially within the Catholic Church—transparency about AI use is not optional but a moral obligation. — ChatGPT.
- veggieroll 8mo ago> overreacting to a small part of [a Pope]'s talk As is Catholic tradition in the US
- allovertheworld 8mo agoThe mind virus will not stop spreading, making corporations do your critical thinking is not a good path. People will become dependent on a subscription service for everyday life.
- steve1977 8mo agoAnd that's exactly the plan I guess.
- falcor84 8mo agoWell ... isn't organized religion a subscription service for everyday life?
- graemep 8mo agoYou do not have to pay anything.
- szszrk 8mo agoUnless you live in a place with mandatory state supported church.
- graemep 8mo agoAnywhere other than Germany where than happens?
- falcor84 8mo agoIf we look outside Christianity, what comes to mind is reading about the ultra-orthodox in Israel, and obviously about Iran.
- graemep 8mo agoI was thinking of Christianity as I was responding to a comment that used the word "church". However, besides that, subsidies from general taxation are not the same as payments for a service received (i.e. going back to it being a "subscription service"), whereas something like the German system where the payment is linked to entitlement to services (if other comments here are accurate) can be reasonably characterised as a subscription service.
- solatic 8mo agoNo priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window - even if they were skilled enough to do so, unless the model was locally hosted, doing so would be a violation of their vows of silence. Good homilies are written with the particular community in mind. If it were more effective to write a homily for a generic public, the Vatican would have started publishing standard homilies long ago.
- Meekro 8mo agoThis priest agrees with you, and has expressed concerns about mediocre homilies that don't speak to the concerns of the particular community: https://youtu.be/pgZXCPCATmc?si=FM4uj2owYBVK_8Mh https://youtu.be/pgZXCPCATmc?si=FM4uj2owYBVK_8Mh
- onion2k 8mo agoNo priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window But they will try, and they'll share a lot of potentially private information in the process.
- graemep 8mo agoNot to write homilies though. The real danger of risking exposing private information would be pastoral work.
- curtisblaine 8mo agoNit: you're confusing the vow of silence with the confessional seal.
- graemep 8mo agoIts more than a nit. It only applies to confession so putting in other private information would not break a vow, but it would still be a very bad thing to do.
- Herodotus38 8mo agoThere are resources that publish homilies for priests to give. Here is an example for English speakers. https://associationofcatholicpriests.ie/liturgy/sunday-resources/ https://associationofcatholicpriests.ie/liturgy/sunday-resou...
- achairapart 8mo agoNothing new. I'm sure something similar was said about Google before... https://encourageandteach.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/churchsigns_funny_church_signs-s291x303-10414-580.jpg https://encourageandteach.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
- dakolli 8mo agoGoogle was designed to give you access to knowledge, not think for you and atrophy your brain.. LLMs will melt your brain, and that's by design. You will have no bargaining power , you will be inadequate without access to the Thinking for me SaaS that you allow your brain to become addicted too. You will become a technocratic feudal slave, a serf reliant on the whichever tech-oligarch lets you use their thinking machine. They will pay you pennies.
- CodeCompost 8mo agoToo bad Terry A. Davis is not around anymore. He would have been literally enraptured by LLMs.
- throwup238 8mo agoOr he would have vibe coded the second coming of Unix.
- Tade0 8mo agoI was thinking about this the other day. My take is that he would definitely have a few choice words for some types of vibe coders.
- mindwok 8mo agoLLMs are amazing, I love them, but he is right. When it comes to interacting with your fellow humans, using AI just sucks the point and meaning out of life. If we wanted to know what Claude thought, we’d ask him. Don’t be a mouthpiece for AI.
- charcircuit 8mo ago>If we wanted to know what Claude thought, we’d ask him. You would be surprised how many people don't do this. It's very common for people to ask others questions that could be easily googled or clauded.
- harvey9 8mo agoThis is true but seems to be orthogonal to the post you replied to. At a further tangent, I encounter people saying "well it's on Google" as they seem to think Google has some authority or quality threshold.
- vermilingua 8mo agoWhat an absolutely awful take. Asking people questions, even if it’s less efficient or has the chance to be misleading, is the absolute number one way to a) learn, and b) make connection. Even if you’re just asking a stranger the time, you don’t know what you might learn.
- Lyrkan 8mo agoExcept that nowadays it feels more like people asking you for the time every 2 minutes while standing just in front of Big Ben. I see it everyday on forums/Discord servers where some users will treat you like their personal search engine simply because they are too lazy to spend 10s reading the results themselves.
- Gander5739 8mo agoBig Ben, the bell?
- solomonb 8mo agoOne step closer to an Electric Monk
- mofosyne 8mo agoReligion and Automation is not a new thing... cue... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel
- rgblambda 8mo agoNot defending the use of AI, but plenty of people who grew up going to Mass on Sunday know that priests often recycle old homilies, deliver lazily written homilies or homilies that were clearly pulled from the internet, or just skip them if they couldn't think of anything that week or are running late for something. Absolute worst was when an intelligent priest put in incredible effort, only for it to go over the heads of the yokels in their parish who want a simpler homily.
- szszrk 8mo agoHow are bad human-written homilies worse than AI written ones? But if you like the idea: you don't need a priest for that at all! A QR code with a prompt will do just fine in this case. There is no person in the world that is capable of weekly delivery of meaningful insight into your life. Or any topic, to be honest. AI won't solve that, it just "recycles old homilies".
- rgblambda 8mo agoAgain, not defending the use of AI. My comment was more as a general response to people who maybe don't have a real life experience of listening to Catholic homilies and have unrealistic ideas of how much effort priests would normally put into them pre-ChatGPT. In retrospect, I probably should have replied to a specific comment.
- AdamN 8mo agoYeah I think that happened to me yesterday. We had a new priest (actually retired and visiting) and the homily was 10x more engaging than the normal ones. I fear that the rest of the congregation didn't like that he wasn't using cheap techniques like constant repetition and that the content was more elevated about what was really meant by the authors of part of Genesis.
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- h33t-l4x0r 8mo agoThe flip side of that is, if you care about your community you want to deliver engaging homilies. And that may not be your personal strength. Also I believe we're talking about Leo not Francis.
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- pjbk 8mo agoWell, for 'The Nine Billion Names of God' the monks finally ended up renting a computer. ;-)
- amelius 8mo agoYeah, because the AI might educate them :)
- gverrilla 8mo agoHow long until the church publishes their official SOUL.md? create-homily skill? jesus mcp? /request-transfer-to-Servants-of-the-Paraclete
- amelius 8mo agoThe same pope who declared an influencer boy a saint? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/pope-leo-xiv-declares-15-year-old-computer-whiz-carlo-acutis-gods-influencer-saint https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/pope-leo-xiv-d... Let's be honest, the entire concept depends on advertising like nothing else.
- mpeg 8mo agoDied at 15 of leukemia... I don't see how this is the church jumping the shark, it seems like a nice gesture considering he spent his short life promoting the church. I do think the whole parading a wax replica of his body is a bit creepy, but I am not religious, people who are appreciate these things.
- junaru 8mo ago> London-born Italian, who died in 2006, built websites to spread Catholic teaching and is credited with two miracles In 2006. I'll be honest calling him an "influencer" is disgrace and comparing the works of dying kid with leukaemia to ai is even more so.
- bigstrat2003 8mo agoA saint is someone whom the church believes (based on criteria that aren't worth getting sidetracked on) is in heaven. That's it. It isn't a declaration that the person was perfect, or even better than the rest of us in some way. The goal of the church is that everyone will be a saint some day.
- b800h 8mo agoTom Tugendhat had to stand up in the House of Commons and tell MPs not the use AI to write their speeches. “I rise to speak. I rise to speak. I rise to speak. ChatGPT knows you’re there, but that is an Americanism that we don’t use, but still, keep using it, because it makes it clear that this place has become absurd.”
- nickd2001 8mo agoIf they're struggling for ideas to put in homilies, they could always ask for some input from people that are one or both of (a) female or (b) married. Might get a fresh perspective ;)
- rochak 8mo agoBased
- kranke155 8mo agoCyberpunk headline
- shelving4908 8mo agoOur Electric Messiah has arrived: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3KD5YBhro&si=0sF3nL4DZBOwc9Q8 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3KD5YBhro&si=0sF3nL4DZBO...
- gambutin 8mo agoI meant tbh, if they get better ie less boring, I’m all for it!
- jacekm 8mo agoLong before AI era I read an article about homilies exchange online forum in Poland. The priests spoke how they struggle to come up with a fresh content every week for Sunday masses. AI is not the source of the problem, it's just an attempt at a solution.
- impish9208 8mo agoThere’s a Paul Theroux short story about a defrocked priest who makes a living writing sermons for other priests. They would mail their chosen topic or occasion and include the payment, and he’d send them a beautifully written sermon that’d make them popular in their parishes. Now AI is coming for the correspondent-priest’s job!
- SirFatty 8mo agoThe bible could have been written by a hallucinating AI.
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- JamesTRexx 8mo agoThe point is they don't want their job spreading fantasies to be taken away, just like every other entertainer. ;-)
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- FrustratedMonky 8mo agoForget homilies. AI can be the entire church experience. There isn't any aspect of the church that couldn't be automated. Way back in "THX 1138" there were AI confessions. Now, pretty sure it would be simple to have an AI priest, speaking in a real voice, with a hologram, and with current context for the audience.
- throwatdem12311 8mo agoIf the priest is using AI to write homilies what is even the point of going to Church I could just get an AI to be my priest and stay home. Using AI generated text to interact with a human that is expecting a human touch is gross. Even AI generated corpo-slop emails give me the ick. To me, it shows a deep lack of respect for the other person. I would rather something in broken English than bot vomit. I’ve ended friendships people that can’t help themselves from pulling out their phones to ask their AI about something we’re talking about in-person. Like come on I want to know what YOU think.
- Quillbert182 8mo agoIn Catholicism the homily is not the main point of Mass, it takes a far secondary role to the Eucharist. Bad homilies definitely show up, but from the Catholic perspective that does not diminish or detract from the purpose of the Mass as a whole.
- nottorp 8mo ago... but will they be able to compete with religions that have embraced AI, or will they be hopelessly left behind?
- jacquesm 8mo agoWell, it was hallucinations any way so in this particular case it hardly matters. But I can see how the Pope has identified AI as a competing religion.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 8mo ago"AI" seems like a religion It requires "belief" "AI" believers claim to know the future Relentless prognostication and effort to gain followers
- piker 8mo agoThe article barely touches on this subject, but the sentiment is nonetheless correct. The problem with using an AI to write something so intimate and context-specific is that it cannot perform as the priest's highest and best abstraction. Instead, it will slavishly follow instructions and risk tunnelling the priest into a worldview and message that subtly betrays his congregation. I recently wrote about how modern legal tech stacks can do the same using the infamous Digital Research / IBM non-disclosure agreement as an example: https://tritium.legal/blog/redline https://tritium.legal/blog/redline If we habitually reduce our context to the lowest-common window ingestible by an AI, yes we may lose a bit of humanity, but more importantly we'll just do a worse job.
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agoRelated previously: Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850067
- tempodox 8mo agoThe “AI” believers will be soo disappointed. Does the holy spirit not inhabit the GPU that computes their slop? Then again, why believe in any god from a classical religion when you can believe in “AI” instead?
- barfiure 8mo agoIt’s a tough sell considering for many in the West the only idol of worship is money. And the Catholic Church has already rotted itself from the inside when it allowed the mentally unwell homosexuals to continuously abuse children and get away with it.
- randusername 8mo agoMy old-school protestant pastor started with an AI disclaimer in the sermon yesterday. What a time to be alive! I don't know what to do with my double standard here. It seems totally normal and expected that I would outsource aspects of my job solving business software problems to AI, but the idea of my spirituality and cultural experience (music, movies, art, etc) being someone else's business problem to be outsourced and optimized by AI is so gross.
- kstrauser 8mo agoI don’t think that’s a double standard. Computers telling computers what to do feels reasonable. Computers telling humans what to feel seems not.
- AndrewKemendo 8mo agoEvery single person who utilizes a navigation application to traverse a place that they have no previous independently verified experience, is taking existential risk based on a computer telling them what to do There are literally thousands of cases of people dying or being injured because they did what a computer navigation application told them to do This is also literally what the Target stock scheduling system does for target employees for restocking shelves The vast majority of peoples lives are run by someone else’s computer
- kstrauser 8mo agoThat’s fundamentally different, and I think you know that. It’s one thing to ask an algorithm how to build an A* driving map from point A to point B. It’s another to ask one how to be a better person and go to Heaven. I’m not religious, and I’m not arguing this from a pro-religion POV. I happily work in AI, and I’m not arguing this from an anti-AI POV. I am highly technical. I love computers. I’m excited about the future. I rely on deterministic algorithms to make my days better. And yet, I do not want to trust the words of an LLM to counsel me on how to be a better husband or father. At this stage, the AI does not know me in the way a counselor or advisor, or even pastor or priest would. And yes, I think that’s a crucial difference.
- MontagFTB 8mo agoBefore preaching it to others, the writing of a homily or sermon first needs to affect the heart of the one delivering it. Such heart-work is exceedingly difficult if not impossible with AI.
- garyfirestorm 8mo agoPaaS - priest as a service Latest and greatest finetuned AI model built for your zip code. Uses location, and all the PII to generate an accurate model for your community needs. Special addons available - turn real world events into gaslighted conversations™
- serial_dev 8mo agoThis kind of headline is something we could have only imagined as a joke 5 years ago.
- deadbabe 8mo agoPriests using AI to deliver homilies feels like we are getting closer to having a blessed LLM with divine weights that speaks the direct word of God.
- kraf 8mo agoLove the headline and curious what the pope actually believes that brains do.
- daxfohl 8mo ago> But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships. > A timeless interval was spent in doing that. > And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. > But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too. > For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. > The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. > And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" > And there was light -- Father Isaac Asimov
- yuchi 8mo agoGot goose bumps, exactly as the first time reading this. Thanks for sharing
- overgard 8mo agoIMO, any (important) writing you expect other humans to consume should be your own writing. I think it's kind of disrespectful to outsource your voice to AI but expect people to read it like it's yours. Why should I put in time to read if you're not putting in time to write?
- therobots927 8mo agoThat’s exactly right. The second I determine something was written by AI is the second I close the tab / scroll past. It’s beyond disrespectful to expect others to read wordslop that you only barely created via prompt.
- rebolek 8mo agoI write stories and tech docs. I'll happily outsource writing tech docs to AI. It would be better than anything I would write. I won't let AI to touch my stories. Their input is boring and cringy. So both things can be true at same time.
- kovek 8mo agoFor the tech docs writing, just give me the bullet points and I'll send them to the AI and discuss the bullet points with it.
- nxobject 8mo agoHonestly, I'd rather just read the bullet points, especially if it gives people more opportunities to lay out hierarchical structure.
- saulpw 8mo agoIt's more like, here's 80 pages of too much information, just give me the API in a tight section here, with an architectural overview. Usually these tools are used to compress, not fluff.
- rockemsockem 8mo agoI feel like these tech docs you're writing might not need to be written in the first place.
- flpm 8mo agoI think it is okay to use AI to help you express your ideas better. I think the idea of AI acting as an "editor" reviewing my work and pointing out potential clarity issues is very helpful. In this scenario AI does not rewrite the text, but prompts the human to rewrite and then review again. It's a short and strong feedback loop that can be a very powerful learning tool if the learner uses it correctly.
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- kgwxd 8mo agoThe results are probably too logical, and morally consistent.
- ntnsndr 8mo agoMy parish priest told me he uses AI to edit newsletter posts. He didn't say he used it to write. And he mentioned using Magesterium.ai, which is a chatbot trained on a pretty conservative Catholic corpus (eg, it knows almost nothing about the Catholic Worker movement). One thing I appreciate in our diocese is that the priests are encouraged to deliver their homilies without a written script. I think that is very wise, as it forces them to preach from instinct and heart, not from a script, either AI or human written.
- ulfw 8mo agoTheir brains? Does god steer those brains but can't steer LLMs?
- TedHerman 8mo agoOriginally published in If magazine in September 1954: in this satirical tale (author is Robert Schekley), advanced robot soldiers fight a war against "Satan's forces," and after their victory, they are raptured upward to a metallic heaven by a divine presence. Key details of the story "The Battle": Plot: Humans rely on automatic armies, including robot interceptors, tanks, and H-bombs, to fight their battles. The Climax: After the battle, a divine force ("The Presence") walks among the shattered robots, repairing them and causing them to ascend into the sky, essentially granting them a form of robot heaven. Themes: It reflects Sheckley's common themes of technological satire, the absurdity of war, and the blurred lines between man and machine. This story is sometimes remembered in discussions about "Silicon Heaven" or robot apotheosis.