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I know lots of people are excited because an ancient institution has something to say about AI.... But what's said is not really novel or even interesting. The
by speak_plainly 5mo ago
I know lots of people are excited because an ancient institution has something to say about AI.... But what's said is not really novel or even interesting.
The letter aims to maintain the status quo of the project of the Church.
The world is shifting under the Vatican's feet and the crappy system they once lorded over is done.
It's time for change, maybe people don't need to work anymore and maybe people should aim to reengineer humanity and eliminate illness, old age, suffering and vulnerability. We can fundamentally change how society distributes wealth.
Some of the arguments are rich coming from the Church: being scolded about centralization of power, claiming truth and shared information is a common good, and consider the history of the Church in their anti-war declarations.
The most astonishing thing in this letter is the pope declaring that modern technology has rendered Aquinas's just-war theory out of date.
- sirnicolaz 5mo ago"people should aim to reengineer humanity and eliminate illness, old age, suffering and vulnerability" sure, that's exactly where AI is headed. also: just imagine a world where people don't age. just imagine it for a second.
- Curosinono 5mo agoI seen this movie but it was a dystopian movie. I can imagine an utopia though were this works out well. I can even imagine that after 100 years or 200 a lot more people become more melowed out and our society overall will be more calm.
- coffeefirst 5mo agoLike this? https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-postmortal-a-novel-drew-magary/e6f74575a0b8116e https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-postmortal-a-novel-drew-mag... (I highly recommend the book. I do not recommend the world it imagines.)
- energy123 5mo agoWhich the Pope is against, the encyclical says that eliminating suffering is a bad thing because it's a necessity for good things to happen.