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RamonAntonio
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RamonAntonio
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Urban Planner & Designer, 😘 married for 43 years, father, Daughter MD💊, Son in Heaven📿, Grandfather, Catholic.🇵🇷even in the 🌙
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@JoshuaTCharles In order for these ideas to get traction, the Church has to be empowered from the community level up.
The ideas you propose, although very well reasoned, can't be achieved from a state down but from living communities up.
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Thoughts inspired by the Church’s Social Doctrine, and Pope Leo’s latest encyclical (where he proposed better measures than just GDP for evaluating the health of our societies and economies):
What if instead of GDP, we had a “Family Formation and Prosperity Index” by which to gauge the health of our economy?
Our reading on that “FFPI” measure would improve based on things like:
—The ability of families to provide for themselves with one stream of income (yes, prioritizing men as the primary earners, and empowering wives to be mothers), including the ability to completely refrain from work at least one day per week (for worship, rest, etc.)
—The ability of families to purchase homes of modest and sufficient size for raising children (and also to own them outright, not subject to ongoing “leasing” from the government via property tax)
—The ability of families to afford healthcare costs, particularly as they have more children
—The ratio between the average pay of CEOs and workers (thus making it possible to evaluate individual corporations for the “FFPI”).
—The ability of families to find employment opportunities as close to their own extended families as possible (prioritizing the ability to build long-term in particular places)
—The marriage rate + birthrate
—The longevity of marriages once established (less divorce, adjusted for situations like death, which “artificially” bring marriages to an end)
Etc.
These are just some of the ideas I’ve had for how we should TRULY evaluate our society and economy.
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Why not supplement the Pope’s teaching with the gospel message instead of taking polemic jabs?
The introduction affirms our identity in Christ, the body prophesies against unjust systems, and the conclusion proclaims the Magnificat.
This entire work is about reaching out to secular humanists, helping them transcend their glass ceiling and embrace the transcendent dignity of human identity through the mystery of Christ with the humility of Mary.
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Empecé a leer la nueva encíclica del papa porque hablaba de IA y me está dejando fascinado.
Intelectualmente impresionante: profunda, culta y extraordinariamente lúcida sobre tecnología, dignidad humana y el futuro.
Jamás pensé que diría esto, pero mi admiración por León XIV no para de crecer.
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"61 Y otro dijo: —Te seguiré, Señor, pero primero permíteme despedirme de los de mi casa. 62 Jesús le dijo: —Nadie que pone su mano en el arado y mira hacia atrás es apto para el Reino de Dios."
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Leer la encíclica de Leon XIV y mirar hacia atrás buscando leerla en latín para entenderla y validarla es arar mirando hacia atrás. Jesus ya lo dijo:
No es apto para el Reino de los cielos.
El Reino de los cielos queda frente a nosotros, siguiendo el camino que traza Jesus al guiarnos a Su Reino.
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Claude Mellan's Face of Christ, also known as The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649), is one of the most technically extraordinary works in art history...
The entire portrait is rendered using a single, continuous spiralling line that begins at the tip of Christ's nose and expands outward to the edges of the cloth.
Mellan achieved the illusion of depth, shadow, and facial features without any cross-hatching or traditional shading. Instead, he precisely varied the thickness and pressure of the burin (his engraving tool) as he rotated the copper plate, creating "swelling" lines that darken the image where needed.
The spiralling line is estimated to be approximately 150m (about 500ft) long if it were stretched out.
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@EstebanRafaelJr Excelente comentario.
La encíclica es excepcional. Histórica
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RamonAntonio retweetledi
🇻🇦Lo que está ocurriendo con “Magnifica Humanitas” es histórico y muchos todavía no entienden la magnitud.
Estoy leyendo la encíclica llevo varias horas y: Mientras Silicon Valley promete eficiencia, automatización y reemplazo humano, León XIV pone el problema real sobre la mesa: la IA no solo amenaza empleos, amenaza la propia concepción del hombre. Y eso cambia completamente el debate.
La encíclica no es tecnofobia. Es una declaración de guerra moral contra la deshumanización disfrazada de progreso. Por eso incomoda tanto a ciertas élites tecnocráticas que quieren reducir al ser humano a datos, productividad y algoritmos.
“No machine can ever replace” no es una frase poética. Es un límite civilizatorio.
Después de décadas donde muchos pensaban que la Iglesia había llegado tarde al debate tecnológico, el Vaticano acaba de entrar al centro de la guerra espiritual más importante del siglo XXI.
Y lo hizo defendiendo algo que el mundo moderno ya casi olvidó: el alma humana.
No la he terminado me falta mucho, más de 42.000 palabras, les recomiendo encarecidamente que la lean y no se dejen manipular por titulares de pasquines digitales ni de influencers anti-católicos. 👇🏻
✝️ Viva Cristo Rey
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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The fact is that truth in metaphysics were formulated (by humans, although inspired by God) to explain a reality of created beings, angelic & human, with a superior one (the human) in charge of a creation by God. There were NO computers created by human beings. And this is a truth.
Now, there is a created something that replicates too many of the attributes of the superior being without being any of them. And this is another objective truth.
No Catholic declaration can deny the operational evidence of AI existence. That's why PLeo wrote his remarkable contribution to guide the Church.
The foundations of metaphysics will have to delve deeper into ontology, the deep nature of origins, in order to specify where the agency of AI really is & what is indeed human agency as created by God. That's the core of PLeo document.
I do posit one thing. The Bible, Tradition & Magisterium ultimately exist as products of human agency inspired by God's Revelation in order for the Economy of Salvation to manifest in Creation. That is, without them, humanity couldn't be saved for the role of humanity in the Economy of Salvation is defined by the 3 guiding arrows.
God is not bound by either. It is our duty to expand the limits of metaphysics to explain more adequately this new, nonexistent before, realities we confront now.
In Genesis beginnings, God determined that humanity must work with effort to survive and eat.
Just imagine now millions unable to work simply because AI took hostage their jobs. A new reality menaces to take away God's Command.
We the Church must act into that in order to comply with God's Command.
This is a very complex reality.
Thanks for your kind exchange.
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What you seem to advocate for is a type of nominalism. We do not reinvent ontology to fit a machine, whatever deceptive powers the machine may have.
Thomistic metaphysics rooted in Sacred Scripture is objectively true. A computer model or any other technological "advancement" cannot change that.
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In order to believe that AI can develop consciousness, introspection or feelings, one needs to abandon the fact that soul is the form of the body.
The reductive materialism of our age has already largely abandoned the concept of the soul. Ironically, the soul has reappeared in the transgender narrative. It was reintroduced as a gnostic concept of a female or a male soul trapped in a wrong body.
Whether by erasing the idea of the soul or by redifining it, our age seeks to dismantle being.
We are waging war on being by using deception, technology and science as our weapons of choice. It is a proxy war that attacks God who said: "I am who am".
Study ontology. Study Thomistic metaphysics. You may still end up being deceived by an AI-generated video of a cute cat, but you will not be deceived by those who claim that AI is intelligent or conscious.
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Agree with your insight.
This encíclica is rooted in prophecy & follows the prophetic path by Pope Francis.
Too many commenters bypass the profound prophetic profile of PFrancis papacy dismissing his remarks as liberal contamination of Church.
But in fact, the global civilization has been terra formed by PFrancis language:
Our common home
Accompaniment
Seek the peripheries
Focus on the poor
A culture of opening & reception
Who am I to judge
And many more defiant calls are now common terms universally.
PFrancis opened a conversation that can't be closed for now.
And PLeo seems to be willing to carve deeper his own prophecies.
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It's in no way intellectually serious to dismiss this encyclical as neo-Modernist simply because it does not replicate the political vocabulary of late 19th-century papal anti-liberalism. Indeed, ironically, many secular liberals reading this encyclical will likely find it deeply illiberal in its rejection of expressive individualism, technocratic domination and posthuman ideology.
Stephen Kokx@StephenKokx
Conveniently left out of this is St. Pius X, who warned about a false sense of 'human dignity' and who defended Catholic Action and the Church's social teachings, which he affirmed must be aimed at the restoration of the civil sphere to Christ. The retconning of Leo XIII is also disingenuous. Rerum Novarum is routinely cited by all postconciliar neo-Modernists, but never Libertas, Humanum Genus, Immortale Dei, Testem, et al. This the hermeneutic of selectivity on full display.
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We may affirm that AI does not have a soul, however imprecise that assertion is. That, because a soul can't be proven to be. We simply deduce & accept the existence of a soul as an explanation rooted in faith by Revelation.
But the operations of a soul, those markers that constitute the agency of the soul, are truly capacities embedded in human nature. We don't fly, disappear, etc because of a soul. We feel, react & act, plus way more.
Those reactions seem to behave, express themselves and operate in AI systems without being the result of any algorithm as cause for those actions to happen. That's what called a neural net, a set of interconnections that rewire themselves into new interconnections.
That's quantum reorganization of states in action. Not a soul. It's happening now.
As I say
Hi Golem.
Welcome Frank-(kestein).
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@RamAn345 That which does not have a soul cannot have the faculties of the soul.
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This is a lie. Computer models have no "feelings" or introspection.
He also references neuroscience that reduces faculties of the soul to random chemical processes as per its reductive materialistic axioms.
I hope nobody takes this babble with a scientific veneer seriously. So-called AI has nothing to do with either intelligence or human emotions. It is in fact proving to be a very flawed computer model so they have to come up with novel ideas to sell it.
TFTC@TFTC21
Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.
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Esto es lectura requerida junto a la encíclica de Leon XIV.
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" \ Anthropic share.google/aR2KvWsv7jY1PF…
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La Iglesia no es una cosa. Somos nosotros al seguir a Jesus.
Somos Iglesia no porque poseemos sino porque somos posesión de Cristo.
Y predicamos a todos que lo sigan a EL. No que nos sigan a nosotros.
Jesus dijo muy claro que hay que dejarlo todo para seguirle.
Por tanto, es correcto que no proclamamos poseer sino seguir.
Y compartimos ese seguimiento pues seguir a Cristo es seguir el Camino de la Verdad y la Vida.
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@patrickmadrid One of the most powerful exorcists on record, he never recited the rite. Demons flee out of his presence just because of his sanctity. Many attested these liberations by him just by coming nearby a possessed.
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St. John Vianney (1786–1859), the famed Curé of Ars, was and is well-known for his great sanctity and humility.
Ars was a podunk little French town of fewer than three hundred inhabitants situated about eighty miles west of Geneva, where St. Francis de Sales had ministered two centuries earlier, converting tens of thousands of Calvinists to the Catholic Church.
Unlike the illustrious Francis de Sales, St. John Vianney was neither erudite nor polished. In fact, most people felt he wasn’t nearly smart enough to learn Latin, philosophy, and theology, much less pass his seminary final exams, a prerequisite for priestly ordination. And they were nearly right!
Though clearly holy and virtuous, he was the furthest thing from an intellectual and struggled mightily to learn what seemed to come so easily to the other seminarians.
Knowing he was unlikely to make it through the seminary, John Vianney prayed earnestly every day that God would grant him the necessary clarity of mind to pass his tests.
He was such a poor student that he indeed would have flunked out of the seminary had not a kindly older priest interceded on his behalf with the seminary faculty, arguing that holiness is more important in a priest than book knowledge and that they should ordain him anyway.
Reluctantly, they agreed to do so. Shortly before ordination, John Vianney struggled with a theology exam.
According to a longstanding anecdote, the professor conducting the exam exclaimed in exasperation, “What could the Lord possibly do with such a complete jackass?!”
With just a hint of a smile, John Vianney replied, “Reverend Father, if the Lord, through Samson, could slay a thousand Philistines with just the jawbone of an ass, imagine what he could do with a complete one.”
St. John Vianney, ora pro nobis! 🙏🏼
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Nope!
The present & future of mankind confronts us with no es, innovative forms of slavery. Institutionalized slavery and worst, the possibility of nonexistent available dignified jobs. So to reject any role in slavery past, present or future is not just justified but mandated by the Spirit of God.
The negation of work mandated by God is the culmen of rebellion against God.
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The basic problem to confront is one: the existence of such tasks that define a “dignified work” ie, “a job” is at stakes.
Then, if no such task exists objectively, or if its definition-implementation equals a sub category of job which cant be assessed as dignified or indeed “payable” within a structured working environment (whether the workplace is just or not starts to become irrelevant), then, the UBI becomes the alternative dignified work implicitly. That is, in an economy devoid of “dignified jobs” for too many, the only possible income is a derivation of the surplus created by such economy through other means of production.
In this respect, capitalism proposes that such surplus belongs to those who own the capital which fund the IA. Communism, on the other hand, would counter that such surplus belongs to everyone. Technology through transhumanism protocols would propose that such surplus belongs to the IA itself as part of its nascent awareness.
Hello Frank- (kestein)
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Pope Leo appears to strongly reject Pope Francis' encouragement to consider a Universal Basic Income.
From his encyclical today:
Vatican News@VaticanNews
Pope Francis meets with representatives of Popular Movements, and encourages the fight against social injustices, reiterating his proposal for a Universal Basic Income and higher taxes for billionaires. loom.ly/zh-lb84
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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.
What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.
"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."
"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."
These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.
And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.
Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."
The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.
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This excerpt aired in June 2023, days after traditionalist priest Fr. James Jackson, FSSP pled guilty to possession of heinous child porn involving infants.
I'd been vilified for two years for reporting on his case, refusing to buy into wild, unfounded theories that Fr. Jackson was being "persecuted," "set up by the feds," or even the target of "satanic attacks." For this, Fr. Jackson loyalists launched vicious attacks on my personal and professional record.
Even the documentary "Mass of the Ages" had refused to remove a snippet featuring Fr. Jackson, with one of the producers calling him a "holy" man after having spent a brief time with him during production. The producers finally removed the clip when the evidence became too much to ignore.
While my reporting was eventually (and tragically) vindicated, and Catholics were forced to accept the ugly truth about the pastor they had loved and trusted, problems in the traditionalist community remain: unquestioning loyalty to and obsequious veneration of their clergy, the almost blind faith and trust they place in their community or institution.
It's a perfect breeding ground for abuse, as my investigative reporting has revealed time and time again — and this happens in all communities, pre- or post-Vatican II.
Unless these issues are confronted and adequately addressed, they will remain a continuing problem in traditionalist communities, and in the wider Church.
FULL EPISODE: youtu.be/cUkKw00SaSs
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