Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas

Post by LtWorf » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:42 PM UTC

albeebe1 wrote: post #5

doodlebugging wrote: post #3

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I agree with your summary. Greed has won out over everything else.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Post by smilespray » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

albeebe1 wrote: post #5

doodlebugging wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with your summary. Greed has won out over everything else.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Post by EA-3167 » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC

AustinDev wrote: post #13

EA-3167 wrote: post #10

On one hand I appreciate the considerate scholarship on display, and since there are so many Catholics maybe some will even listen to their purported leader. On the other hand I find any talk of greed, selfishness, manipulation and degradation of humanity... really rich coming from a pope. Maybe I'm supposed to forgive, but I'm not going to forget that they spent decades abusing, hiding abuse, trying to force abortio…

> abortion to the margins along with birth control even when HIV became an obvious pandemic. How are abortion and birth control at all related to HIV? I don't understand the connection.

Post by AustinDev » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

EA-3167 wrote: post #16

AustinDev wrote: post #13

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> abortion to the margins along with birth control even when HIV became an obvious pandemic. How are abortion and birth control at all related to HIV? I don't understand the connection.

The most common form of male birth control also happens to be the primary recommended means to avoid HIV and other STI's: the condom. Sorry if I was unclear and made it seem like it was improperly related.

Post by Loughla » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC

hagbard_c wrote: post #6

insane_dreamer wrote: post #2

> The direction that AI takes is not written into the technology itself. It depends on our choices, on the institutions that host and underpin that choosing, and on our ability to manage innovation responsibly to serve the common good. This is such a key point -- the problem is that the $T that are being poured into AI are doing so for one purpose alone: ROI The choice has already been made, and it's the wrong one.

I'd say that the outcome mostly depends on whether something resembling AGI is achieved since that would more or less inevitably end up leading to something resembling ASI ('super-intelligence') which in turn makes it questionable whether the resulting entity can be counted upon to 'serve the common good' - whatever that may be. The quest for ROI has at most a temporary influence on the direction if this path is foll…