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Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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When you stop to think of it, historically people have told their secrets to the church, now they also tell them to AI. There is some kind of relation there, the power that people willingly give to an organization. The Ads are coming so I guess people will start to think about it a bit more.

for whatever merit it may achieve, concentrated attack upon religion fails to account for resultantly deprecated cultural aspects that are vital to continued functioning society, and this blind spot is not discussed often enough - in this case ,confession to a priest is significantly less evil than confession to sam altmans torture machine in the making

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Have you considered that our very consciousness is supernatural?

I do believe (believe, not know) that consciousness is something bigger than we know, I can even believe in panpsychism sometimes but I don't think any religion have any real clue about the nature of consciousness.

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment has a very strong AI stench.

A comment about how nobody can tell facades from the real thing — and the first response is someone trying to tell. I appreciate the live demo.

People can tell. The premise is false. It’s sometimes hard to tell, obviously it’s hard to ascertain false negatives and false positives, but it’s usually pretty obvious.

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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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…

AI people are a cult as well.

They simply follow (an)other god(s)... One of them clearly being Mammon.

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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post #19

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.

How much better?

Every honest description of Catholic Church, as any institution of this size and history, needs to be very nuanced. One of such nuances is a fact that it was one of the main, and sometimes strictly main, supporters and drivers of education and scientific progress. Other such nuance is that it very often punished and persecuted attempts to bring education and scientific progress.

Both views of the Church are true. That's what nuance is.

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