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Getting dunked on by the Pope.

Bringing the dead back to life.

Gone are the days of the misspelling mail-order bride and au revoir, sweet Nigerian prince.

You can call it a response to Matthew Harvey Sanders.

Magisterium AI—the Catholic chatbot that Sanders characterizes as a paver on “the Golden Path”—is bad.

Marc Barnes mistakes a call for prudence with a call for prohibition.

The chatbot, by virtue of being designed to appear human, appears sexual—male or female. 

Have they been exiled? No—they are camping.  

On the blurring of human and artificial intelligence

It is useful for the rulers of the earth to play at ruling the air.

A new king has arrived—and we’ve given him the crown.   

 For heaven’s sake—someone had to throw a first punch.

I have been patronizing my dishwasher. I have been subsidizing its efforts.

Social media is a machine for the universalization of Posting, such that all human communication becomes a Post in its exterior form, regardless of the interior intention of the poster.

The real reformers, the ones who are most agitated about a problem, often gain their energy from the moral contradiction of being utterly implicated in the very sins they condemn.

The trouble with driving, according to Crawford, is that there isn’t enough of it.

Artificial intelligence is not a new frontier for man, but one of the oldest.

Love and truth are neither expected nor (typically) desired from bureaucrats or chatbots.

The trouble with a technological age is that people are increasingly shapeless.

We will either become Catholic or remain counterproductive.

The transhumanist attempts, through innovative technology, to postpone or overcome biological fragility and curate a kind of eternal body.

Plastic “makes” a thing present to all and yet seals it within itself, which is of course, the liberal description of the self.

The humanists are inhuman, but let us not be taken for fools: their “philosophy” is more materially determined by the stock market than spiritually determined by any insight into the human condition.

The screen shapes us into secretive people; pornography gives us the secret to keep.

“Medietas, this living-in-the-proper-middle, is not to be confused with mediocritas, with a lukewarm mediocrity that remains simply beneath the demands placed upon man.”

Within the liberal paradigm, the idea of not automating work for the sake of laborers is not even a point of consideration.

When the “next big thing” looks like our next big nightmare, a wake-up call is called for.

The basic design of social media, and the usage it promotes, makes a demon’s job easier.

If an entire generation can be convinced that their power is in their voice, they will devote that much more energy to gaining a voice rather than gaining power.