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Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
You mean during the Napoleonic wars? Science was already fully embraced by then. Or do you think the Austrians and the French were casting spells against each other instead of firing cannon?
>The first use of firearms as primary offensive weapons came in the 1421 Battle of Kutná Hora.
What does it mean to search yourself for words, even if they fall short of the eleganance that Ai can produce? "What to do when Ai says 'I love you'?" discusses this conundrum https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when... I've been paying attention to Sherry Turkle since I caught this show over the summer. She was on a panel at Davos titled "Swipe Left on Reality" which was the first time I heard he…
Recommended watch. (Thanks!)
Her book _Alone Together_ is also worth reading.
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I genuinely don’t understand AI people anymore. Like the cognitive gap is so huge that I feel like I’m from another planet now. Im not religious, but automating religion is so absolutely meaningless that it boggles my mind. You could have a machine emit million of prayers up to heaven per second, but why would you? And despite what you think, most of us can tell apart AI generated content from the genuine thing. I am…
No priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window - even if they were skilled enough to do so, unless the model was locally hosted, doing so would be a violation of their vows of silence. Good homilies are written with the particular community in mind. If it were more effective to write a homily for a generic public, the Vatican would have started publishing standard homilies long a…
Btw pope is a math phd.
Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
Btw pope is a math phd.
Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
Even the epitome of the science-church conflict, the Galileo story, started from a scientific disagreement before the religious one[1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Mersenne
[0] https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-sma...
Btw pope is a math phd.
Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
The friction between the church and science is a relatively new phenomenon, at least at the current scale. There are always exceptions like Galileo, but it took science a long time to start answering (and contradicting) some of the key questions about our world and where we come from that religion addresses.
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Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
They often were. A lot of history has been retold more in a way to fit contemporary narrative than to maintain historical accuracy. For instance Galileo. The typical tale is something like Galileo dared claim the Earth is not the center of the universe, the Church freaked out at the violation of dogma, shunned him, and he was lucky to escape with his life. In reality the Pope was one of Galileo's biggest supporters a…
The geocentric position is silly and wrong. There are no two sides here.