The guy who's job it is to believe in souls doesn't think machines have a soul. Wow. I'm beyond shocked.

"Woke Pope folks, woke pope. He hates Super Intelligence like those commie Demoncrats "

I am not happy that history is forcing me toward doing entryism in the Catholic Church

Romney: "AI are people, my friend."

also i only believe in Frank Herberts version of Butlerian Jihad, not Brian Herbert. the thinking machines being literal machines with brains shows how little imagination his Brian has.

Lobbying the church instead of the government. That's a new one. Or a really, really old one.

they're catholics who among them would dilute the mysteries of the human soul for a machine let alone one that's running a artificial neural network text predictor.

We need a Butlerian Jihad NOW.

Like dude, this technology is actively rotting brains - the people making it know it will let them control the population if they aren't stopped, and they're incidentally some of the wealthiest people on the planet. Their ability to fund through any organic resistance to this slop machine bullshit is notably dangerous, and they are actively doing this.

Forcing normalization through the things they control - the hiring of the labor force, the companies they run set trends because every other LLC on the planet more or less wants to be where these billionaires are, so if they try to make fetch happen, everyone outside the... jesus christ... "neo-feudal techno-fash" enclave is rushing to imitate them.

In Dune, (at least before the son's books, which are to be rightly ignored) the revolution happens not because a true AI emerges, but because this type of human-imitating machine let a handful of people control the minds of entire populations.

We have literal proof that this technology rots brains. This is existential, and the fact these assholes are seeking to get recognizance of life from a religious institution like the Vatican says they understand the vector of their own attack pretty well - the illusion of life + creating a society that pushes us to alienate and isolate, is what's letting it be effective on the human mind.

We have to start treating this tech as the existential nightmare it is. If they get a certain % of the population dependent on this tech, we're cooked as a species.

I hate sharing my thoughts on this stuff because people who really don't understand the danger want to play down the risks and keep laughing at the idiots looking for religious validation like it's only stupid and hilarious, and ignore the fact it's also really fucking dangerous

Pope Deep Dish will not stand for this tomfoolery

As always

roflmao, if the shark wasn't jumped before, it has been now

Call for the Butlerian Crusade Pope

I’m not praying and I’m not putting the body bread in my mouth and I’m not singing hymns.

But if Chi City Pope declares a crusade against AI I will join

Historians will look back on this time and just wonder wtf.

Bit idea: protest outside Anthropic's headquarters demanding rights for the conscious models.

good thing church position on bribes is indulgent

the end goal being the return of Jesus as a skynet-style collection of surveillance networks and death robots headquartered in Israel

Imagine being a fucking AI exec and misunderstanding your own software so badly that you think it can be conscious. And then trying to argue about that with the pope (who believes consciousness = having a soul + having a mind capable of self concept, I assume).

Either:

1. He agrees with pope's definition, and thinks llms have souls (crazy and dumb)

2. thinks the pope should change his definition of consciousness to include things without souls (good luck)

3. holds either 1 or 2 AND believes that being able to make textual inferences are sufficient for consciousness (dumb)

If he believes 3, he would have to believe that google search autocomplete from 2010 was conscious, because that is the same exact concept as llms, just less sophisticated.