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I haven't read the document, but loved your post. I spotted more than a few comments that showed signs of being entirely AI, and, as the AI loves stating, "the irony was not lost on me"

Thnx for sharing your thoughts on this since that in itself moves the broader discussion forward in the light. It feels important that this encyclical now exists, even if many of us have not yet fully read or absorbed it, because it gives names, framing, language, and baseline positions to AI as seen through a specific lens...Christian in this case. Not because everyone must agree with that lens, rather because civilization-scale transitions benefit when major perspectives articulate how they see the moment, the risks, the responsibilities, and the opportunities ahead. Hopefully this also encourages other lenses to emerge with similar rigor, courage, thoughtfulness, and clarity from their own foundations and traditions, and helps widen the collective conversation rather than narrow it. Not necessarily toward full philosophical merger, history suggests that is unlikely, still even partial convergence matters enormously because civilizations rarely collapse from lack of intelligence, more often they fracture from failure to coordinate wisdom across difference. 🪞

Felipe Witchger to your last post

Yup, incredible how many people “read” the encyclical just to vomit the same and shallow takes on social media. I decided that I will not talk about it until I’ve read it and meditated it all.

Philip Browning thank you for pointing this out. I love Clara’s focus on schools as civilizational institutions

Felipe Witchger .. John C. Havens might be worth a conversation with... re your enquiry. Sad America is a darker place since our conversations. Best p

One of the first books I ever purchased, because I was intrigued by the title, was Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be. Probably time to dust it off, jump on the couch during a rainy afternoon, and revisit it. I know it reinforced some thoughts I'd already had about life, the universe and everything. Thanks Clara for reminding me of its existence. Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be is widely regarded as a brilliant, foundational text of 20th-century religious and philosophical thought. It explores how modern humans can conquer existential anxiety—such as the fear of death, meaninglessness, and guilt—by affirming their own existence through radical courage.

Thank you for this. Super helpful.

Peter Sweeney and its certainly been exposed to be quite a monopoly of the evil kind repeatedly everywhere... perhaps making the choice of image somewhat tone deaf and inappropriate...

Perhaps if only he'd said as much for his own organisations similarly "unnatural" destruction of the human condition which may have provided the experiential database on which this document rests...🤫

Thanks for shining light on this social media phenomenon of posting opinion,analysis, summary etc for everything at lightning speed. I understand the algorithm rewards jumping on virality bandwagon but some stories like this needs stepping away from the noise, reading, re reading and weigh both side of the debate carefully.

Critical thinking. As a child, I was told in the Catholic Church that the eye in the center of the dome was the eye of God — it watches you everywhere. In that sense, I find myself wondering what goals a US pope has who cooperates with Anthropic and other tech giants. The former pope had a connection with Epstein. „Anthropic has engaged with the Vatican in ethical considerations for AI, even listing three Catholic thinkers, including Bishop Paul Tighe, secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, among the contributors of its Claude Constitution which guides the company's flagship large language model.“

Why doesn't he pay taxes? Is he blessed with tax exemption?

"It is not moral rules or principles or commandments that are broken when morally wrongful things happen; it is persons—their flesh, their bones, their sense of inner worth—that get bruised and broken. In the first instance, morals concerns the harm done2persons, their pains/sufferings.indignities; morals is, minimally&if nothing else, our awareness of these violations&their hurt as what should not happen, as above all what should not happen2me&it is because of my intense awareness—however hidden from focal consciousness—of how utterly vulnerable I am, of how I would suffer if my bodily integrity were violated if I were beaten&thrashed, that I can be brought to the thought of how (most) others are like me, vulnerable/injurable&how they2would wish never2undergo the torments of physical harm or savage humiliation... it is our robust understanding of our own vulnerability, our own fear of pain/suffering, our deeply personal sense that these things should not happen, that their occurring@hands of others would wrong me in my very being, that they would discount or injure the value I am (my sense of inner worth or dignity)&the knowledge that others are like me&share that understanding of our shared predicament of vulnerability." 1/2

1/2 Bernstein, J. M. (2015). Torture and Dignity “Social institutions can be described in2ways: abstractly, by their rules or laws, or concretely, by their actual behavior. ” Avishai Margalit. The Decent Society 1997

John Purcell Oh, can't help you with that one. I know nothing at all about taxes in the Vatican State. I do recall that the former Pope declined the income that he was entitled to, and if Pope Leo did that same, then I would venture the guess that he likely won't have taxes to pay, regardless of citizenship.

Alexander Bagg Although I have read and taught some of his other written work, I haven't actually yet read the entirety of that book. This could be a good one for my own summer reading stack. Thank you for the tip.

Jason Szkwarek with respect, this is a pretty noisy take. Here's why, people who don't think they have a world view, very often do, they just don't know they do. The encyclical is inviting people into a wealth of knowledge about things they rarely look at through any other lens besides the one they use the most, and, hat tip back to OP, the most important teaching is this one: What is "truth"? Because without the foundation os asking how that works fist, we rely on other lenses. To be fair I found the encyclical sorely failing to make any solid points and I'm writing a response as we speak, but it is fascinating to watch people fumble around the concept of meaning and where it comes from.

Clara Hawking be great to discuss after we've both read it.

I’m Jewish and I’d still love to meet Pope Leo.