Is this the beginning of the Butlerian Jihad?
And the Orange Catholic Bible
tfw when the normies are so eliminativism-brained that the only people capable of thinking about the ramifications of creating IRL philosophical zombies to control military drones/the media and maybe one day replace all of humanity is the coolest leader of the child predator megacult
I thought that at this point everyone calls him Gandalf.
The pope’s AI encyclical was good reading and reminds us to center human dignity, compassion, etc. Lots of ethics to explore with regard to AI and related cultural phenomena.
“Fuck the ethical considerations and rush it through!” - most any american business person.
I grew up so ideologically opposed to these guys that I hate it when they make a good point. 😩
You know it’s a strange year when both the Mullah regime of Iran and the Pope of the Catholic church put something out there and you can’t immediately disagree…
They are socially conservative, but they have been fairly consistent at asking people not to kill each other for the past decades.
They forgive you.
This might be the first time I agree with a Pope.
Read Laudato Sí.
Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres), perhaps the Pope can grace us all by paying property taxes from this point onward? The church’s unimaginable wealth should be able to cover it… everybody else manages it somehow.
Fun, semi-related fact: the Mormons own approximately 2% of Florida.
Yes, they had a late start, Catholic church has been around for over a thousand years, Mormons need to catch up.
Still, they are doing rather well with around 2 million (sources vary) acres, the fifth largest landowner in USA. That’s very impressive, not paying taxes helps them a great deal financially.
Ask L. Ron Hubbard
Are enough people going to church nowadays to warrant the big cash flows, as in the past? Went home to a family reunion last year and my aunt/uncles 8 children were raised catholic and went to church every Sunday. Discovered none of the kids, or their kids, go to church anymore.
They’re losing membership, but they have been unimaginably wealthy since the Middle Ages, they’ll be fine. Not paying taxes helps, of course.
(that’s just for the USA, they could be gaining membership elsewhere)
While we are regulating concepts, I wonder if anyone has tried regulating religions or economic styles.
