profoundly depressing the extent to which the pope’s encyclical, which is mostly about the dangers of technocracy, and the ways in which big tech is colonizing and enslaving the global south, and the enactment of an arms race by states and corporations, and the right of every human to safe and fulfilling work, is being summarized by news organizations as just “calling for more regulation of A·I”
i get it is 42,000 words and all but can you fucking read
204. We live at a time of significant spiritual and cultural blindness. A false pragmatism urges us to sever the roots of our history, as if it were possible to inaugurate a kind of “new creation” detached from the past. Even those who cite important moral principles can fall into this historical nihilism, mistakenly believing that the atrocities of the twentieth century can never happen again. Yet, in reality, the same dynamics are re-emerging under new guises. The mentality of armed equilibrium and deterrence appears to be reasserting itself.
@aescling read the encyclical it goes harder than this