In May, Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” which took AI to the cleaners. AI vendor Anthropic tried very hard to sway the contents of Magnifica Humanitas. They …
  • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    i don’t know why your shitty whinging made it click but damn, it really is just Pascal’s wager again. “we don’t know if the spooky calculators have souls so better to act as if they dOoOoOo!”

    • Sina@beehaw.orgEnglish
      26·
      4 days ago

      You could be totally right for all I know, but my argument against is that we humans have no idea what consciousness is & souls may not be real at all. To me panpsychism is more plausible than the vast majority of theories or mumbo jumbo regarding the soul, saying this as a comparison of plausibility without claiming that consciousness and the soul are the same or necessarily closely related.

      • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        “what if EVERYTHING is secretly conscious, including the random word predictor” i say, flailing my paws in the air

      • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I mean, fair enough, but can you explain how that impacts your decisions? What does panpsychism imply in matters of ethics or epistemology? Does it matter that the air you breathe can be thought of as in some way conscious?