Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical letter to the Vatican on Monday. Titled “Magnifica Humanitas,” or Magnificent Humanity, the 43,000 word missive specifically takes aim at AI — and the AI…
  • lurker@awful.systemsEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The Pope has not charged Catholics worldwide to burn down the data centres. Cool as that would be.

    If we just push a littleee bit harder we can get there. Never give up!

  • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    For some reason LW is obsessed by the idea that this encyclical (specifically its Italian version) was written with the help of an LLM.

      • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        12 days ago

        LessWrong, a group blog supposedly devoted to the science of living rationally, but in practice ground zero for some truly culty behavior. The Zizians arose from that community, for example.

      • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        LessWrong, an online community that started out as a place to discuss Yudkowski’s writings, who among other things is the If You Build It Everyone Dies guy.

        LessWrong also directly gave us Effective Altruism and the Zizians.