Following my recovery from Catholicism, I never imagined that I would become a fan of the Pope. Perish the thought that I would ever sink back into believing those weird dogmas, and agreeing to Catholicism’s punishing rules about sexuality and abortion, and so forth.
Well, I haven’t sunk back that far – yet, but I just have to applaud Pope Leo. Under the guidance of Pope Leo, Catholic spokesmen have acknowledged that artificial intelligence is a useful tool, but warn against AI “overloading us with information to the point of paralysis.” Pope Leo XIV has given a tactful, but unmistakable warning against AI taking over control of our thinking. He recently advised the priests of Rome to use “their brains more” rather than AI when preparing homilies.
I feel that Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, set the course for this trend, in the condemnation of military attack as a way to resolve conflicts, and urging for human discussion and negotiation.
All good – you think? But is there something sinister about Pope Leo’s attitude to AI? Well the squillionaire Peter Thiel thinks so. He’s just given a series of lectures on Pope Leo’s doorstep in Rome. A critique of Peter Thiel’s ideas has been supplied, beautifully explained, in Australian Independent Media by Ricky Pann, also supplying this video:
It’s too much of a coincidence, that Mr Thiel has decided to make Rome the centre of his lecturing activities. The Pope has a huge worldwide influence, and his views on artificial intelligence have an impressive forcefulness and clarity. It’s pretty obvious that Thiel finds this a threat to the technological empire that he leads. And the Church recognises this – ‘Agent of chaos’ Peter Thiel is lecturing on the Antichrist at the Vatican’s doorstep.
You didn’t know that the technological geniuses who run our world can be not only so very scientifically knowledgeable, but also extremely religious. Scarily religious – I think. Thiel predicts a possible Caesar-Papist fusion, in which a tyrant – the Antichrist, joins up with government, in a sort of anti-science domination of the world. Thiel doesn’t actually see Pope Leo as the Antichrist (the Antichrist has to be young), but certainly worries about Pope Leo’s teachings.
Pope Leo is the first Pope with a formal degree in mathematics, and has called on mathematicians to be ”prophets of hope” and to integrate ethical responsibility into their technological advancements, particularly regarding artificial intelligence.
Oh dear, that’s very persuasive. Is Pope Leo indeed the Antichrist, the supporter of the facilitator of the coming Antichrist. Or is Peter Thiel a dangerous nutter?
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Thiel is part of a growing problem, the rise of a surging, ignorant, uncaring, blinkered, utterly selfcentred class of modern clever rich smartardsed “winners” who have cornered some money, tech.savvy, political fringe power and have no generosity for others. Many brainite bastards actually reject everything irrelevant to themselves in society, in history, education, culture, what others have done or do. So, these knobpolishedanusglowing wonders care nothing for education, history, lesser beings, nature, law, civil discourse. Misfits will ruin it all. But, superstition kills, and religious abrahamic irrational rubbish plagues us all.
PP: Your first sentence can also be applied to a minority of religious clerics who are self centred with little or no practical knowledge of what is required to live happily in our Western communities. The activities of these clerics are bound by dogma and ritual that supposedly is required above all other knowledge and wisdom that every day average citizens live by. Frequently their world view is devoid of practical education and bound up in radical scriptural language that few people can challenge for fear of intellectual intimidation and exclusion. They cannot see that their extremist preachings create “otherism” where communities become divided to the point that they do not recognise the human rights of “others”. Today the Abrahamic religions do not reflect the original scriptural messages and are now a cause of divisions in modern Western societies.
Quite right there, M., and the rise of ultra-orthodox, anti-woke, strident fascist, neurotic psychopathic, schizoshitto individuals is serious as ever and grows as a reaction to modern life’s complex growth and expansion. The hostility and insularity of many individuals worries, for when, say, Thatcher, Trump, Adolf, Caligula looked around and pondered, there really was no-one else.
I’m not a recovered/reformed Catholic as I’ve never been one, but I am a recovered Christian because when I was very ill as a teenager, some people from our church visited me in hospital and told me I must have sinned and my illness was punishment from God.
Fortunately my Dad tore them a new one but that was the beginning of the end for me.
Peter Thiel is also allegedly Catholic & member of tbe elite Opus Dei, ditto his puppet JD Vance; apparently Pope Leo wants to shut down Opus Dei.
Some others in that ecosystem inc Abbott & advisor in Hungary, seem enamoured with not just Opus Dei, but Franco’s post WWII Spain or Putin’s Russia?
Where men are men, ran a fossil fuel autarkist economy, followed white Christian nationalism for <1% and the EU did not exist.
Religious leaders and politicians are of the same bread, they promise much and deliver little.
Once again, I’d point out religion has killed more than it has ever saved, yet there are those who still believe!!!
For bread, read breed.
jonangel, you do know you’ve got a generous 28+ minutes to edit your post, don’t you? Rather than creating a second post, just edit the first if you see a typo / whatever that needs fixing.
I know this is an appeal to an aesthetic you may not subscribe to, but I try… like tossing
breedbread crumbs to the pigeons, it’s a worthy effort.In answer to your question: no I didn’t, so thank you.
As mentioned elsewhere, the JW’s are holding a series of lectures on who should rule the earth…. the catholics would be convinced it should be the pope, Peter Thiel no doubt the power behind the throne…. and another bloody battle over religious supremacy with the rest of humanity paying the price.