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As metaphysicians do, we must queston everything. Antithesis is very important. We need falsehoods as they prove the truth.

New techlogies must work to enhance human dignity and cultivate relationships.

Technologies are meant to faciliate humanity, not replace it.

Humanity is not always to be optimized.

AI is not smarter than human intelligence. AI doesn’t have realized emotions, skills, conclusions through any learned experience.

AI is not a morally neutral agent that can bear responsibility. LLMs can damage creativity, cognitive abilities, and sway people from human connection.

AI must avoid exploitation of many for the benefits of a few

It’s better to be right than be first

Human dignity doesn’t depend on status.

To love Jesus is to love our brothers and sisters.

The Church Social Doctrine argues to be actively involved in financial and political insitutions, not just abstract gospel.

These institutions cannot be neutral agents as they must promote dignity and cooperation from people over simply the purpose of profit and efficiency.

Democracy is advocated for by the Church as it promotes citizen participation with their own benefit as the priority. Work is dignity.

truth is not a territory to be defended but a good to be shared

the truth of the Gospel is not imposed from above but grows over time

The Pope and the Catholic church warns of humans manufacturing hegemony through AI and creating a new Tower of Babel.

The Church may not remain silent on social matters as re affirmed by Pope Francis, but it is not to take the place of the state.

Something I loved to read was that not everything in humans needs to be fixed. Some limitations bear great fruit.

Finished White Nights. Is it not incredibly unjust to live a life of solitude only to be surprised a heavy and brief period of intense emotion and purpose…. Only to believe left with the anguish of memory alone

This is peak friend zone