In May, Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” which took AI to the cleaners. AI vendor Anthropic tried very hard to sway the contents of Magnifica Humanitas. They …
    • flowerysong@awful.systemsEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      You think the fucking pope is “adhering to atheist values”? What an interesting place the inside of your head must be.

    • Charlie Stross@wandering.shop
      7·
      5 days ago

      @Zensate You seem to believe in “atheist values”, but they are not: speaking as an atheist raised in a non-Christian religion, what you’re talking about are specifically *Christian* atheist values—they embed a bunch of Christian eschatalogical assumptions even as they reject the core thesis. So you have *far* more in common, belief-wise, with the Pope, than you do with an ex-Hindu or ex-Jewish or ex-Buddhist atheist.

    • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
      91·
      5 days ago

      atheists and christians are like electrons and positrons. whenever they collide (such as in a football game) they instantly destroy one another