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Zac Crippen
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☦️ Building new things for @hallowapp. Theology, Nat Sec, Tech. IC XC NIKA. Eagles, Phillies, Longhorns.
Katılım Aralık 2009
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If you're disappointed that the Pope didn't use his encyclical to endorse a materialist/physicalist account of consciousness and intelligence, I don't know what to tell you.
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@allldiamonds Welcome...the Catholic view only gets better from here.
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I used AI to process the "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical letter from @Pontifex about AI, turning 37,000 words into a 7 minute video
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To a society that has tried its best to forget, ignore, or supplant God, AI will always promise unimaginable power.
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@michael_timbs It's because you reversed the proportions. It's 1 pound of creatine for every 2 grams of body weight.
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Been trying the whole “2g of creatine for every 1 lb of body weight” thing for a month now and I’ve never felt worse. How do you guys do it. It’s also like $1000 a week of creatine.
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@matheus_bazzo_ *speed reads one paragraph of the encyclical*
“Wow, bad take from the Pope, ama”
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It’s a 42,000 word Encyclical. How do we already have such well formulated opinions all around social media? The AI mindset is so impregnated that people think they can verbiage any output without proper meditation. It’s too much to ask for at least a day of thought processing?
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@deanwball I would be curious what you think the “fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of AI” is.
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You have overinterpreted my claims on a wide variety of dimensions, the cardinal sin of the twitter hater.
1. The regulatory concerns mentioned throughout strongly mirror European talking points, sometimes down to precise phraseology. The centrality of Jesus Christ to the encyclical does not change this.
2. Of course there is a distinction between LLM cognition and human cognition, but the encyclical doesn’t make that claim. Instead it claims that LLMs have no cognition at all, and that it is just “data processing,” “mimicking,” etc. You also inserted a view about consciousness in your reply that is nowhere to be found in my original critique.
3. I am not calling all of CST “intellectually flaccid,” and no reasonable person would interpret my tweet that way. I am calling the encyclical intellectually flaccid, which it is.
4. People look to the Church for guidance, and a guide must understand what he is speaking about. The encyclical is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of AI, and thus it will actively mislead many followers of the Church. I think that’s a shame.
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@deanwball Twitter hater? Come on, Dean. I already said I’ve followed you for a long time. I’ve learned a lot from you!
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Sure.
1. "The myopic preoccupations of the Eurocrat" is a ridiculous way to describe the focus of the encyclical. Find me a single Eurocrat who in the last 50 years has pointed to the Incarnation of Jesus Christ as the key to understanding all of human history and progress.
2. "[The encyclical] dodges in the deepest sense, denying that AI 'really thinks' or 'really learns' and all that typical strain of cope that amounts to magical thinking."
Surely your contention here isn't that there is not a meaningful distinction in kind between the thinking done by a conscious human being and the pattern matching done by an LLM? Come on. AIs will never be consciousness, and that's not "cope," it's a metaphysically well-grounded claim.
3. "Intellectually flaccid at its core" is an ignorant (some might say disrespectful) way to paint the entire Catholic philosophical tradition of the *imago Dei* and Catholic Social Teaching.
4. "A missed opportunity to advance global understanding of AI" -- sure, but in the same way Huxley's "Brave New World" is a missed opportunity to advance global understanding of in vitro fertilization. Advancing global awareness of the technology is explicitly not what the document sets out do to. When has a papal encyclical ever served to advance a global understanding of a technology? You write as if you expected Pope Leo XIV to announce that he's joining Anthropic's technical staff.
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Accusing the pope of endorsing "superstitious mind/body dualism" -- is this satire? One wonders if Matt has even read the document.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It is not surprising to see that the Pope endorses a lot of superstitious mind/body dualism about artificial intelligence but it’s still wrong, even as he is also raising a lot of good points about some of the risks at play.
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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…
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Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo XIV invokes justice to combat ‘anti-human vision’ in AI ewtnnews.com/vatican/magnif…
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Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.
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As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
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“We need more of this in our communities”
and it’s a Little League baseball field turned into a data center parking lot.
Mason Home Builder@bankertobuilder
This is amazing! When a little league ran out of money and couldn't maintain its field, a local developer came in, bought the field, and redeveloped it into a parking lot for the nearby data center He even kept the baseball diamond visible in the parking lot to give it some character We need more of this in our communities!
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When I see AI from a student, I stop reading, and comment: “I suspect AI. If I’m right, don’t waste my time again. If I’m wrong, come discuss these ideas with me.” (They almost never come)
When I see it from an adult professional, I don’t comment but I do stop reading.
eigenrobot@eigenrobot
asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive. this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important. so: not paying that cost is telling
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