Ryan Haecker

I have been invited to give a keynote address, 'Origen Against Paradox: A Theological Analysis of the Liar's Paradox in Titus 1:12', to the 5th World Congress of Logic and Religion in Vancouver, Canada on September 23-27, 2026. #speakers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">5wocolor.com/#speakers

Scenes from yesterday’s celebration of Pentecost with rose petals at the Pantheon!

@TeawithTolkien tolkien is now part of the church’s magisterium

The first step on the way to the eventual declaration of Tolkien as a Doctor of the Church

8th-century BCE Assyrian method of fording rivers with inflated skins.

Historical range of the use of war elephants throughout history

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.

“Pope Leo was a math major? I wonder what his encyclicals will be like” Like this

@aufgehenderRest What about Werner Herzog as Hegel

@aufgehenderRest Ralph Fiennes is clearly Kant. But who is Hume? Mark Addy Paul Giamatti Brendan Gleeson Nick Frost Stephen Fry Toby Jones Rory ‘The Hound’ McCann Tom Hollander Gerard Butler

Adrian Brody is Schelling. In the much needed film that we all need!

In his first encyclical, cautioning against the dangers of AI and technology, Pope Leo XIV quotes JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” Follow: @AFpost

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

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…

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

Not now babe, i’m reading Magnifica Humanitas

In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI. Calling Leo XIV the “woke American pope,” he also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist. Now, Pope Leo XIV is releasing what’s expected to be an historic encyclical addressing AI tomorrow morning. thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-jd-vance…

Required reading today

Magnifica Humanitas is a Trinintarian Ontology coded Papal Encyclical. @NTOntologies @MasperoGiulio @Pontifex

Trinitarian ontology in Magnifica Humanitas.