Pope Leo XIV called for artificial intelligence to be more strictly regulated, warning that it can help spread misinformation and normalize war. He also issued an unprecedented apology for the church's role in slavery.
  • JangleJack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.

    • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      “Fuck the ethical considerations and rush it through!” - most any american business person.

    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2 months

      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.

      • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
        2 months

        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.”

      • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        2 months

        you are not whoever told you this was doing the work of Satan

        all of us are God’s creations, and God doesnt make mistakes

        your sins do not define you, the crucifixion set you free of them. Have faith in Christ.

        And may I ask for your diocese or archdiocese? Have you reported him to the police yet? I am incredibly sorry that happened to you

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    2 months

    I stand behind Leo’s message 100%,

    but you have to admit it is kind of funny that the original gaslighter organization which uses positive reinforcement to brainwash people into worshiping a deity of their own creation is trying to stop tech companies from doing the exact same thing, lol.

    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      Yeah but at least that organization has not ever instigated a war, right?

      • pingu@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
        2 months

        Is an instititute not allowed to develop into something better over time?

        • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2 months

          Certainly they have not at all stopped misinforming people. There are also still elements that promote hatred.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2 months

            Have they ever truly gotten rid of the pedo problem either? Like all of the ones in the system?

            • badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2 months

              I know that they were “dealing with it internally”, and they did seem to be taking some measures, but I would be very surprised if it is completely eliminated, especially since their methods and actions are private. Hell, the whole response could have been faked since nobody really knows what all was done.

        • honesthenery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          2 months

          it was built on a weak foundation of lies for a people who are scared to die. But really who isn’t… I remember hearing catholics say “those christians over there are not real christians” …Then I proceeded to think neither of you two are christians but a lost people displaced by war, exploited by capitalist and no real memory of your past. Bondage is all they know. Without a scientific mind you just make shit up and in the hiearchy the poor pay more.

          • honesthenery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
            2 months

            Opus by Gareth Gore

            ps I think book reviews are stupid but a review of a machine is not. Yes please tell me how to think… Don’t challenge my stupid ideas. I love my hug box…

          • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            2 months

            “who are scared to die”

            if catholics are afraid to die, then all of you are defecating your pantaloons this instant

        • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Certainly not one that has been around for centuries and has seen many different world views over the years!

    • honesthenery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2 months

      We in the USA have a issue with secular and non secular idol worship… The pope is a CEO… Kinda like his own little corpo kingdom… kinda like these billionaire welfare queen pdfile anarcho capitalist libertarian tech ceos…and it seems like both parties can’t keep their hands off the kids. Like musky boy is trying to create or already created. These catholic clergy are just grifters and fraudsters. It is sad to watch the elderly spiral into madness and these vampires love taking advantage of the weak while posing as “the good guy”… the world is a inversion of what people actually believe. It is hard to keep your head on straight with such a heavy knowledge base. I looked into the abyss and it spit in my eye.

    • Karl@literature.cafeEnglish
      2 months

      As much as I hate the organization, I want to forgive the people who run it. I want to believe they do it cuz they’re brainwashed too.

    • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2 months

      me when I know absolutely nothing about the Church and I watched a single netflix documentary

      • conartistpanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        Pretty sure that documentary would be the more consistent and factually based religious piece of media out there.

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        2 months

        I was raised Catholic, actually. Went to bible camp every summer, sang in the choir. The book is fantasy fiction and the preacher’s livelihood depends on convincing people that all good things come from god and all bad things come from humanity.

        • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          2 months

          and Jesus Christ wasnt created by the Church…

            • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              3 days

              Jesus Christ literally said he is the Son of Man and assigned Pope Peter as the “rock” of his church

              • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.todayEnglish
                3 days

                Jesus Christ

                Again, there is no such thing as a christ, magic isn’t real.

                literally said he is the Son of Man

                Isn’t everyone?

                and assigned Pope Peter as the “rock” of his church

                And what does that mean? One of these four interpretations? https://www.gotquestions.org/upon-this-rock.html

                Or something else entirely? Let’s ask Jesus. Oh right… he died.

                • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                  3 days

                  1. There is, stop strawmanning it to “magic”

                  2. The Son of Man as in the Messiah. Matthew 26:64 Jesus said to him: “You have said it. Yet truly I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the power of God, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

                  3. Jesus told him to “feed my sheep”.

        • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          2 months

          Please read the Bible further.

          May I have some of the verses you read that made you think that?

          and no it does not, not at all

          Most religious orders (the way that most people become priests or brothers) do not have you earn your own money, you live in formation houses or active communities with priests and brothers

          • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3 days

            That’s the point of the garden of Eden story. God made everything and everyone, but we broke his impossible rules and now he punishes us forever, to the point that infants are born with sin.

            It’s a death cult.

            • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              2 months

              translations depend on literalness and the way its said

              for example

              the difference between

              “I ate a bunch of fruit today”

              and

              “A bunch of fruit was consumed by me today”

              • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
                2 months

                Yeah but then you say a bunch of racist authoritarian shit and try to shrug it off as sarcasm when the crowd turns against you. You’re not allowed to decide you were joking after the fact.

  • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
    2 months

    major manifesto

    Why dumb down proper news reporting?
    The “manifesto” is called Encyclical letter, and is the classical format of publications of the Catholic Pope.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I grew up so ideologically opposed to these guys that I hate it when they make a good point. 😩

      • sunbeam60@feddit.ukEnglish
        2 months

        Sir, I tip my hat in your general direction. That was, as they say, a cracking joke.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
      2 months

      They are socially conservative, but they have been fairly consistent at asking people not to kill each other for the past decades.

      • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 months

        I think the leadership is less socially conservative compared to the past, but they represent some very conservative bases so they more or less are having to crawl progress forward or they risk a schism.

        The previous pope, Pope Francis, stacked the Vatican with more progressive leaning cardinals. I believe Pope Leo will be following in Pope Francis’ footsteps in terms of appointments.

    • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
      2 months

      You know it’s a strange year when both the Mullah regime of Iran and the Pope of the Catholic church put something out there and you can’t immediately disagree…

  • jlow@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2 months

    Just disarm billionaires from their money.

  • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I thought that at this point everyone calls him Gandalf.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2 months

      Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands

      Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.

      The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States…

      I’d also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.

      • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        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

    • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      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.

      • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        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)

    • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2 months

      what? the vatican is larger than the US? aa

  • guerilla_ontologist@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
    2 months

    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

  • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 months

    While we are regulating concepts, I wonder if anyone has tried regulating religions or economic styles.

  • dasrael@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 months

    Cult leader in white robe writes about stuff he doesn’t understand.