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Thank you for starting this conversation. We're particularly interested in the next steps after UNHR/SDGs, since that was the training set for our fictional AGI lead in Spark Hunter (https://fightersteel.com). So we eagerly await your paper and look forward to tying the discussion of justice and dignity to rights and relationships a la Gunkel, Gellers, Coeckelberg et al.

This is the part many organisations still underestimate. AI itself is not the strategy. Incentives, governance, and access are. The long-term impact of AI will depend less on what the technology can do, and more on who controls the leverage it creates and how broadly the benefits are distributed.

His words will resonate for approximately 5 minutes, perhaps 10 with devout Catholics, and then they will disappear into the abyss like everything else these days

https://p4sc4l.substack.com/p/just-as-jesuss-radical-truth-telling

My 16-year-old daughter read a news summary of the encyclical and then pointed out how ironic was the note at the end of the article--that the summary had been generated by AI. I started reading the document yesterday afternoon. I took a break after paragraph 45, at the end of Chapter 1. I have 200 more paragraphs to go, though I confess, I skipped ahead to read the much-commented-on and now I know misrepresented part about war. I'll back-up again and read through. Maybe I could finish it today.

Basil C Puglisi Thank you for sharing this. I’m glad to see independent voices thinking seriously about these questions. There are actually a lot of people and organizations wrestling with similar issues from very different angles. You have frontier AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind trying to build and align increasingly powerful systems. You have AI safety and existential risk researchers worried about long term loss of control scenarios. You also have ethics and bias researchers focused on monoculture, surveillance, and embedded power structures in current AI systems, along with governance groups trying to figure out what accountability and international oversight should look like as these systems become more capable. You probably saw Anthropic’s constitution they put out. Your paper seems most connected to the pluralistic alignment folks, particularly the question of whose values these systems are ultimately being trained to represent. Who do you see as doing work most aligned with your approach right now?

Good to see a full stack resource that focuses on end to end systems instead of isolated demos. Most people get stuck at tutorials, so having production level examples with real architectures is actually where the learning starts to become useful.

Eating all day resembles a running engine. The motor never gets a chance to cool down. Parts break faster under constant pressure. Fasting simply turns the ignition key off.

AI for ALL, it is there when you really use it

Emotional intelligence really is the secret sauce for leading well and building a team that actually thrives.

Clara Hawking it is https://open.substack.com/pub/thomasehmer1/p/babel-jerusalem-and-ai-what-magnifica?r=67h18k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I "accidentally" minored in Religion. I took so many religion courses on different religions and philosophies in the world, that I wound up a few credits short of a major in religion. That said... In all my years, this is the first Pope that seems to be putting teeth into world affairs that means something. He is not the typical, "Everyone... please... Can we just get along?" type of Pope.

This is the part that gets missed. AI doesn’t just scale productivity, it scales whatever judgment, incentives, and operating system already sit underneath it. If the structure is short-term, extractive, or poorly governed, AI makes that faster too.

I am having very hopeful early results with multiday fasting and microfasting. Youtubes of dr Prodip Jamnadas like this one are a big help and inspiration for me. Shorter versions are also there, but miss some important details. https://youtu.be/PZazbYHmq4I?is=etzcqdvvOkFItBz9

'Autophagy' for it's discovery Nobel prize in physiology was awarded in the year 2016.

The Pope also says the realm of education assumes paramount importance. Nevertheless, rapid technological shifts reveal how ill-equipped we are in the educational sphere

Justin Wright - I agree. Emotional intelligence usually becomes more visible as responsibilities grow because communication, self-awareness, and relationship management start impacting outcomes just as much as technical ability. The “making it easy for people to speak up” point is especially important. Teams tend to perform much better when people feel psychologically safe enough to share ideas, concerns, and disagreements openly.

Agree breaking complex work into smaller steps improves control, accuracy, and overall quality of the final product, Leonard.

Thank you for your comment Paulina! You inspired me to read the full text

"Standing in the foothills of the singularity" What does this really mean? This comment is not helpful in getting society to willingly embrace AI. In fact, it may be counterproductive.