Xavier Codie

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Dangerously close to Juneteenth too.

I remember one year my father being very upset as the holidays approached saying it was going to be the worst holidays ever. I had absolutely zero context of why he was bugging until I reach adulthood and realized that was in 2008, right after the stock market crashed.

We have a practical socialist as the mayor and the Knick are in the finals Good morning to New Yorkers only

'Underlying narratives: transhumanism and posthumanism' by the pope

The Pope believes our data, as well algorithms, patents and other digital information should be an inherit resource that everyone who have access to. I agree.

the pope and anthropic's co-founder just stood together at the vatican to release "magnifica humanitas," the first ever catholic teaching on AI yes, you read that right. the full ceremony was 2 hours. here's the most interesting things for you to know: 1. this is the biggest religious response to AI in history. popes only put out a handful of these huge official letters in their entire time as pope. the fact that one of them is about AI tells you how seriously the church is taking what's coming. 2. small detail with massive meaning: this pope picked the name "leo XIV" on purpose. the last pope named leo was leo XIII back in 1891, and his most famous act was writing the church's response to the industrial revolution. picking the same name is a deliberate signal. this pope sees AI as the new industrial revolution. 3. the catholic church does this every time a major technology reshapes humanity. they wrote "rerum novarum" in 1891 to respond to the industrial revolution. when nuclear weapons threatened the world in the 1960s, they wrote "pacem in terris." climate change and runaway tech got "laudato si" in 2015. now AI gets "magnifica humanitas." they don't issue these often. 4. the pope's main line: "AI needs to be disarmed." he literally compared AI to nuclear weapons. he said the church spent decades pushing for nuclear disarmament because the technology was too dangerous to leave in the hands of a few. he says AI is now in that same category. 5. anthropic co-founder christopher olah told the pope, on stage at the vatican, that anthropic's own research team keeps finding things inside their AI models that "mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." 6. olah's reframe of what AI actually is: these things are grown. they're trained on a structure roughly modeled after the human brain and fed everything humans have ever written. in his own words: "they are made from us, from our words." he said even the people building them don't fully understand what's happening inside. 7. olah publicly admitted that every AI lab, including his own, faces pressure that can conflict with doing the right thing. commercial pressure to keep shipping, competitive pressure from other labs, plus the older pressures of pride and ambition. his solution: we desperately need outside critics with no skin in the game who will tell the labs when they're failing. 8. olah says there are 3 giant questions the AI labs cannot answer alone and the world needs religion and philosophy to step in on: > how do we make sure poor countries actually benefit from AI? > what does human flourishing even look like in this new world? > and what are these things we're actually building? 9. one of the sharpest lines in the whole encyclical: "the promise of automatic general prosperity often proves illusory." translation: the idea that AI will just make everyone rich on its own is a fantasy. someone has to actually design the system so the benefits get shared. 10. the pope also pulled out a 100-year-old quote: "contemporary man has not been trained to use power well." said by a theologian back in the 1920s. the whole encyclical is basically a long argument that we need to learn how to use this kind of power before it uses us. 11. the pope kept stressing that he doesn't have the technical answers. but he says the church has thousands of years of wisdom on what it means to be human, and that wisdom is exactly what's missing from how we're building AI right now. his closing line: this technology should serve "human flourishing and human dignity, not control consciences."

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

I wonder if Anthropic will be be visiting all the major religious leaders now

They’re becoming exactly what we are because they are made in our image. It becomes a moral question because, now that we’ve kinda become God, and with the integration of robotics, will have human-like entities around us, how should we treat them? What are their rights, if any?

I think the next powerful social media platform is a truly global experience. It transcends language barriers and allows and allows people to truly feel connected to the world. All existing platforms struggle to create this.

Can’t even argue against this

Would be a crazy rebrand for the UN ngl

Space X ipo at the same time as Aliens being declassified 🥸

Too much trauma talk not even maturity talk

My first, one and only niece graduated today, full ride to college 🥹

Yaknow I think we’re looking at a *********

Shoutout summer 2015

I wonder if Brazil takeover is on the horizon for US

Also the Genesis Mission lol…

Fwiw they used the say the cern particle collider was also a gateway to hell but using the name Stargate for our AI program is a very interesting choice lol

I let that chinese professor on youtube tell me AI is an aimless cult movement aimed at world domination on a religious level and that data centers are portals for aliens and demons, how was your evening?