When Science and Religion Are on the Same Side, United Against Slop Pushers
The "Mathematics Pope" (sometimes known as "Pope Pi") brought together science and religion, united against technofascists who are mostly college drop-outs who abhor women
Earlier this week Andy told us about new articles that are partly motivated or inspired by the 'thesis' of the American Pope regarding slop or generated (they say "generative") plagiarism. The following is a set of portions from Part 5:
Technofascist billionaires abhor institutional knowledge, and knowledge as work. To them it's a form of collective resistance and competition to their domination. In the kindest and most generous interpretation, they hate it because they misunderstand the very nature of work, collapsing it to a pathetic one dimensional degenerate capitalist conceit of exploitable labour. Beyond a Marxist framing in which "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people", work is a spiritual affair.For example; I don't write this rubbish, or the LISP code that powers my website, because anyone pays me, but to feel better about the pile of shit I've unwittingly helped unleash on humanity. It's penance. Through business computing we've let the values of a bunch of morally absent weasels dictate the software being forced on every corner of human existence, from primary schools to care homes. Now is the time to reverse that. I will definitely not get rich doing that penance. I'll get much poorer for the effort. However, it will help make the world a better place. That is hard work!
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The view posited by Pope Leo in Magnifica Humanitas, that "AI" is a tragedy of human sins and so must "be disarmed", is a sound moral statement and a call to opposition.
It is a mistake to say that because "AI" is trained on the garbage heap of the Internet (and the many treasures plundered from it) it is somehow "just a reflection" of humanity (good and bad). The very apparatus that made that possible, its profit motives, its mechanism of cultural domination, theft, censorship, distortion and selective access makes "AI" a codified paradigm of sins, a culmination of some of the worst, morally derelict ideas and people ever to have lived. It is Sodom and Gomorrah in a box.
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Mischievous minds will try to paint the Magnifica as a "clash of science and religion". No, this time it is the Vatican that is on the side of science. Christianity moves closer to Islam in its perspective on science, and perhaps for the first time in human history science and religion are united in opposition to a toxic technology, a distinctly wayward application of science in the wrong hands.
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A tedious but necessary reminder that when I write "AI", I am not talking about the branch of computer science called artificial intelligence. The quotes are consistently used to denote a dangerous political movement that hijacks contemporary technology for openly fascist and anti-human aims.
It should be noted that the current Pope has a Bachelor of Science (BS) in mathematics. He does understand some of the scientific concepts spoken about; that has proven useful. █
Image source: Code as spiritual work