On Magnifica Humanitas

Añadido: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Admittedly, when I first started this video, I was going to record myself reading the whole papal encyclical, uh but it's 42,000 words long and uh I think it would have ended up being about 3 and 1/2 hours. So, instead of what I'm going to do is kind of go over the quotes that were most um impactful for me when reading this encyclical.

[00:00:22]As you may or may not know, uh Pope Leo the 14th just released the encyclical Magnificat Humanitatis and the internet is uh ablaze with opinion about what's going on here. And I've seen so many >> [laughter] >> just not good takes over the past couple days about this uh this encyclical in that I don't believe there's that many people that have read this thing in its totality. Um I so much so that I actually wrote a piece about how I don't really believe we should have opinions about things until we actually read the primary sources because all of the things that I have seen are either sound bites of the Anthropic meeting with the Vatican um saying that the Pope is now a a board member or something to that effect. Um or people have just been reading summaries from news outlets about the encyclical, not really getting down to the nitty-gritty of of what's being said. This is potentially the most important encyclical of our lifetimes.

[00:01:28]Um it has been likened already to Leo the 13th's uh Rerum Novarum, I believe it is, and that is the encyclical about the Industrial Revolution, how things were changing at such a rapid pace um back then. This is in the 1800s and now they are changing at such a rapid pace today. So, without further ado, I will uh switch over to my uh Emacs buffer. I will I will say the Vatican, no JS, no JavaScript, EW works perfectly for reading uh uh papal encyclicals, so uh be that as it may, let's let's get into it. I'm going to switch over to that screen.

[00:02:12]>> [singing and music] >> So, here is the encyclical. I will uh scroll down to the introduction and kind of just uh give you my thoughts on uh everything.

[00:02:32]So, immediately uh we talk about the Tower of Babel. So, that is obviously the biblical story of how humanity tried to create this unified um city, essentially, and build a tower towards the heavens without the ideal that was God. And obviously, it was doomed to fail from the get-go. And AI is being likened to that Tower of Babel today.

[00:02:58]The introduction really just serves to establish who is the Catholic Church, what are our beliefs, what are previous teachings in papal encyclicals about, and kind of tying things together, discussing what is social Catholic social teaching, rather. What is the uh what is the greatest good? What are we actually aiming towards? And I think that that is uh important to read. I'm not going to skip through it, but obviously, go read the encyclical in its entirety. Don't just take some guys guys' opinion on the YouTubes about this thing. Go read it in its entirety. I'm not saying you shouldn't go read it. I'll kind of just read my article in the interim as well, and just kind of go through my thoughts as to what was going through my head as I was reading this encyclical. So, I said immediately that the role of humanity as the steward of the gift that is the world and the life that we all possess for a very short time is unique.

[00:03:57]And what we can do is orientate that which we steward towards the greatest good.

[00:04:03]So, when we look at technology and science, these are things that are all potentially orientated towards God, effectively.

[00:04:13]And something that I've personally um come to in recent years is that the sciences and uh faith are not diametrically opposed whatsoever. And actually they build upon one another if they are taken to their honest logical conclusions.

[00:04:32]There was a uh Matt Fradd interview with Malcolm Guite the other day, uh Tolkien expert author in his own right, um discussing about how what we are living right now is the greatest story ever told. And I I I love that analogy. It's something that um when you really think about it and meditate on it, it could very well be possible. And that is the thing is that what we are living right now is not specifically unique to humanity.

[00:05:06]Every single generation goes through its um generational challenge. It goes through that which is meant to potentially break your faith. It is meant as a test. And um artificial intelligence today is something that I think is I don't want to say distraction, but also distraction away from that faith that we are supposed to have. As characters in this story, we also can be participants.

[00:05:36]We when we actually get out of our own way and allow God to work through us in that character that we are supposed to play, we actually become who we are supposed to become. And it's something that this encyclical gets into in that humanity is not Humanity does have obviously fit shortcomings.

[00:05:59]But those are not meant to be overcome by overcoming humanity in the transhumanist sense in that we should uh go beyond what is human and become more in quotation marks. It's something that many many people have struggled with in the past. Uh it's the Nietzschean uh Ubermensch, overman. It's something that um in previous years of my own life, it's something that I struggled with in that uh as a paraplegic, I thought about what if I could get like an exoskeleton and and you know, like be even better than I previously was. And that's not what we are discussing here. However, many of the people behind the development of artificial intelligence are of that mentality. They're of that idea that if only we can trea- transcend or overcome or be better than we already are, then we will be saved.

[00:07:00]And that is we are quite literally in a religious position when you when you come to that.

[00:07:08]I'll skip a little bit ahead here.

[00:07:10]There's actually >> [laughter] >> in one of my one of my recent videos, I was discussing where are we going? And Leo discusses it right here. He says, "Where are we going? Toward what goal do we wish to orient ourselves? What direction should we choose as a people and as a human community?" And this is a question for every single person. It's something that we need to be continually asking ourselves. The idea that we should just progress because of progress's sake is actually the ideology of of a cancer cell.

[00:07:46]When you are growing just to grow, you're cancer effectively. So, the issue with the modern technological scape is that we progress towards what we don't know.

[00:08:01]We keep progressing and and moving the goalpost and just saying because progress is progress, it is good.

[00:08:10]I would argue that that is not the case and obviously in this encyclical, it's also brought to the attention of the reader.

[00:08:20]There's two biblical images that are brought up and obviously was the first Tower of Babel and then the Book of Nehemiah, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, is about the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

[00:08:31]Um and it is in communion with God that this community blooms as opposed to one in which we try to um strong-arm our own human will and intellect into the world and effectively destroy ourselves. I say here, the project of the tower was a project without reference to God as a human achievement rather than done for his glory and does the opposite of unifying humanity. It scatters it. The aim to reach heaven without God is a failing ideology, one that is reflected in technological advances time and time and time again.

[00:09:14]Technology is not a cure-all, nor is it intrinsically evil.

[00:09:19]Leo mentions that in this encyclical uh and blatantly says, "Technology is not an evil. It is a means to an end, but what is the end that we are trying to achieve?" And when we look at the current landscape of displacement, of employment, of um dehumanizing effectively from some of these uh leaders in the AI space.

[00:09:44]Um we are not moving towards the correct end for all of humanity.

[00:09:51]I say just as nothing is perfect that is created by man, so too are the technologies that we create. It is a means to an end, but the end always has to be at the forefront. It always has to be at the continual question. And if we are not moving towards the greatest good, then we have to course correct.

[00:10:10]Right right here Leo discusses building for the common good and technology should benefit all peoples, not just a elite that has monopolized that technology. And in the LLM space right now, we have two, maybe three companies in the Western world that are vying for supremacy. Whereas you have on the Chinese front, open models that are coming into the market and allowing people to run this technology from their own hardware in which they control it and which they have their privacy.

[00:10:50]All of these are things that we need to be discussing.

[00:10:52]Somebody on the on on Twitter the other day was discussing how we need to win the AI race and I said, "Who is we?

[00:11:02]If it is just these companies, it's not a we. It is a conglomerate of oligarchs that are trying to control uh this technology and it's it's not for the greatest good.

[00:11:16]Building a world in which everyone can flourish requires shared responsibility and courage. No one can single-handedly bear the weight of the challenges that the world is facing, just as no one is so weak that they cannot play their part.

[00:11:27]Goes back to the greatest story that is ever told. You are a character that is playing a part. If you play your part to the total uh conclusion of what your part is supposed to be played, you will become a saint. It is the universal goal of the human being is to is sainthood. It is to get out of your own way and let God work in your life so that you can become ultimately human.

[00:11:57]One more thing I will say here in the building for the common good is that when you look at the cathedrals of old, we are almost innately unable to recreate these buildings as a society today. And it's not because we lack the ability or the means, it's that we lack the orientation towards what that goal was actually meant to achieve.

[00:12:21]We are not collectively pursuing that which is transcendent or eternal. And that is the difference between societies of old and new.

[00:12:30]I say here that when something is made to orientate towards the infinite, you feel it in your being. It's a It's a guttural feeling.

[00:12:38]And we by and far are incapable of this today unless we do a hard U-turn toward that which is eternally true.

[00:12:47]So, chapter 1 through 2 are kind of setting the stage for Catholic social teaching, uh why the church takes stances uh in previous teachings, and I'll kind of skip ahead to chapter 3 because that's where artificial intelligence is is really mentioned, the rubber hits the road, and this really really gets going in that direction. But do again read all of these other chapters.

[00:13:16]I'll read these two parts here. So, the danger of humanity becoming a victim of his own achievements was already clearly recognized by St. Paul VI, who warned that the most extraordinary scientific progress, the most astounding technical feats, and the most amazing economic growth unless accompanied by authentic moral and social progress will in the long run go against man.

[00:13:35]Yeah.

[00:13:36]Here, we must recognize another crucial aspect which I have noted earlier. In many cases within the digital context, control over platforms, infrastructure data, and computing power does not rest with states, but with major economic and technological actors. These entities effectively set the conditions for access, determine the rules of visibility, and shape the very possibilities for participation. When such power is concentrated in the hands of a few, it tends to become opaque and evade public oversight, increasing the risk of distorted forms of development that give rise to new dependencies, exclusions, manipulations, and inequalities.

[00:14:09]And this is why the internet, as it was conceived, was this massive force for good.

[00:14:15]At least in its original incarnation.

[00:14:20]It was such an interesting project that it allowed the freeing of knowledge and information to go between individuals from anywhere in the world.

[00:14:30]And what we have done in internet 2.0 is lock all of this information behind a paywall or a login screen in a social media feed. So, what we are actually advocating here, Poplio, is to go back to the previous internet.

[00:14:49]And I make that point in here is the arguments is to go back to the open, freedom-respecting protocols of the internet of old. The future is the past is the future.

[00:15:06]We finally arrive at artificial intelligence here in paragraph 97.

[00:15:12]Um and I can read this fairly quickly for you guys, but it is not my intention here to offer a comprehensive treatment of artificial intelligence nor to give an overview by the of the extensive relevant literature, since authoritative contributions already exist including within the ecclesial context. I limit myself to recalling a few essential elements for a moral and social discernment that safeguards the primacy of the human person in order to ensure that it will always be human intelligence with its conscience and freedom that guides technical innovations that responsibly determines their use and limits. Now, I had a discussion with somebody today about how LLMs are not AI. And I mean the definition of AI is a bit loose in the computing sense. But what I was actually discussing was the classical definition of intelligence.

[00:16:06]Classically, these large language models are not intelligent in that they don't actually um they don't reason. They don't create new insight. They don't take X, Y, and Z and create a new insight. And I think that that's the argument that I was making.

[00:16:25]The intelligence that these large language models possess is human intelligence.

[00:16:32]And by that I mean they are trained on the swaths of data that the collective humanity has created. This video will eventually end up in a LLM training data set whether I like it or not. And that is because what these companies are doing is vacuuming vacuuming up the information that is produced.

[00:16:56]And we are feeding it with human intelligence.

[00:17:01]There is a computer scientist who goes by the name of Rich Sutton in Edmonton, a fellow Edmontonian. He is one of the fathers of artificial intelligence. Um I don't say that lightly, but he went went a podcast recently and was discussing how LLM's and the classic um definition of what artificial intelligence are are essentially at odds. They're not the same thing.

[00:17:25]I highly recommend you watch that podcast. I'll link it in the show notes, but uh his argument is that were we to actually go towards a a artificial intelligence, true artificial intelligence, you would have systems that are learning from uh effort and from experience, and that is not what LLM's are.

[00:17:46]And I think that it is a clever distraction to call LLM's AI. Um what we need to agree upon is a definition here, and otherwise if we don't, we risk creating persons out of computational systems.

[00:18:02]And that is a tremendous risk and something that cannot be taken lightly, because what we would actually do then is deperson the human being and create a person of something else. It's kind of like the corporate structure. I won't get into that in this video, though.

[00:18:19]I say that the moment that we do that, we have lost the plot and we will invoke perhaps the greatest human suffering ever.

[00:18:26]The issue that occurs here is that those that are building these systems are not coming at it from discernment at all.

[00:18:32]They're shoehorning in and trying to accelerate just because they can. Uh George Hotz actually was one of these people that was within this camp, but recently has changed his tone because he sees how incessant the uh shoehorning of AI into everything is, and he's he's written at at length about it.

[00:18:52]I do recommend go going to read his writing.

[00:18:57]And I'm going to just say, like I I'm not saying that LLM's are not useful.

[00:19:01]They are. They have tangible benefits.

[00:19:04]That is not the argument that's being made here, and it's not a anti-technologist or Luddite type of uh encyclical. It's not saying that we should just not use these systems.

[00:19:14]That's not what is being said. What is being said is that we need to be asking the question of what end are we pursuing when we look at technological advancement. And that is something that is getting lost in the plot when we are continually trying to win.

[00:19:32]We don't even know what that word means in this in this case, win the AI race.

[00:19:37]Right here, Leo says a valuable tool but requires vigilance. In light of what has been said, we can better understand why AI can be a valuable tool and at the same time why it calls for a measured and vigilant approach. In recent years, its private use has expanded significantly prompting growing reflection on both the opportunities it offers and the risks tied to its rapid spread. In personal use, three aspects in particular deserve careful consideration. The ease with which results are obtained, the impression of objectivity and the stimulation of human communication.

[00:20:06]The speed and simplicity with which information complex analyses, media content, and practical assistance can be accessed undoubtedly makes life easier.

[00:20:15]Yet, they can also encourage excessive reliance in the search for ready-made answers and weaken personal creativity and judgment. The apparent objectivity of the responses and suggestions these systems provide can lead us to overlook the fact that they reflect the cultural assumptions of those who designed and trained them with all their strengths and limitations. The artificial imitation of positive human communication, words of advice, empathy, friendship, and even love can be engaging and at times genuinely helpful.

[00:20:42]However, for less discerning users, it can also be misleading creating creating in the illusion of a relationship with a real person subject.

[00:20:50]When words are simulated, they do not build genuine relationships but only their appearance. The artificial imitation of care or support can become particularly risky when it enters contexts where real relationships and emotional bonding bonds rather are lacking. Here, the danger is not so much that a person may believe they are communicating with another person, but rather they may gradually lose the very desire to form genuine human connections.

[00:21:15]A very interesting point, and obviously we have seen in the recent past how people have been experiencing what they call AI psychosis or the desire to end their lives because of the conversations that they're having with these chatbots. And that is a huge huge problem, specifically for people that are in a mental space where these impacts are much larger.

[00:21:46]In addition, the biases of these systems is evident.

[00:21:51]The sycophantic nature in which they discuss with you, "Oh, you're perfect.

[00:21:56]That's such a great idea.

[00:21:59]Nobody's ever thought about that before."

[00:22:01]All of these things that are being said are quite literally just engagement tactics to get you to continue to use these systems so that companies can earn revenue off advertisements or otherwise.

[00:22:13]And I think that that is particularly detrimental for the mental health of many people. I have this supposed friend. There's people that are on There's subreddits even where people are dating AI. And with the bottle changes and the context window is lost, the relationship is lost. And it's so sad to see that people are creating these supposed relationships with a computer program.

[00:22:42]In the past in the '70s or maybe even the '60s, there was a computer program called Eliza where people were like, "This is sentient." And we are making the same mistake at length today.

[00:22:58]The environmental impact is obviously brought up here. Um And it's something that people don't seem to be talking about when it comes to data center buildout and the electricity and resources that are need needed to run these large language models, uh, not even just to train them, but for inference. And the independent and free models that you can run on your own hardware are far more resource, um, saving. And it's something that we need to be discussing in the very near future because I think that is the direction things are going to go, um, unless some sort of regulatory or other thing comes into effect.

[00:23:41]I'll read this part here, too. Indeed, entrusting an algorithm in practice with the power to select who is worthy or not without anyone bearing responsibility for that judgment is to hand over the task of redefining the boundaries of human possibilities in this process.

[00:23:53]Political responsibility is also lost, not just empathy towards those excluded, which can, after all, be simulated. The exclusion of the vulnerable becomes cloaked in a veneer of neutrality and objectivity, against which it becomes difficult to raise objections. In this way, injustice goes unnoticed and compassion, mercy, and forgiveness, understood not as a mere appearances, but as real political actions, gradually disappear from view. Even conversations online where, uh, "Hey Grok, is this true?" Like, we risk having allowing these LLMs to have the final word, and then you create essentially a sterile hellhole, um, "Because Grok said" is now the way that we have conversations, um, and we're dunking on each other instead of actually compassionately reaching shared conclusions and understanding.

[00:24:43]And I think that that is a massive risk, as well.

[00:24:46]For AI to respect human dignity and serve truly serve the common good, responsibility must be clearly defined at every stage, from those who design and develop these systems to those who use use and rely on them for concrete decisions. In many cases, however, the internal processes leading to a result remain opaque, making it harder to assign responsibility and correct errors. This is where accountability becomes crucial. The possibility of identifying who must account for decisions, justify them, monitor them, and when necessary, challenge them and remedy any harm caused.

[00:25:16]Uh IBM released something, I want to say in the '70s, that said that no computer should ever make a decision. And uh we are running headlong into a world where computers are making decisions.

[00:25:29]And um when you allow computers to make decisions, you double tap a girl's school in Iran.

[00:25:35]You uh don't have any accountability for the things that you do, because by extension, you didn't do them.

[00:25:44]Uh but do know that I think that everyone is accountable in eternity, and um autonomous weapons are the responsibility of their creators and their users. And this is not the same as an inanimate object that is used for ill.

[00:26:00]Um Now, we cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines, the so-called alignment of AI with human values, without also having the courage to insist on a further condition, the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frameworks involved in subjecting them to shared standards of social justice.

[00:26:18]Otherwise, those who control AI will impose their own moral vision, which will become the invisible infrastructure of the system.

[00:26:25]Yeah, what we are discussing here is the will to power. Um and because you have the power, then that thing that you say is true. But that is not what truth is, and we are going to be in a world where well, we're going to be living and probably already do live in a post-truth society in which it doesn't matter what is being said, because the person that has the power is saying it. And that is not what truth is, and that is where we are um going to run into very significant human uh issues.

[00:27:01]I'll push ahead a little bit here and talk about the limit and heart and grandeur of the human person.

[00:27:07]Our relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a limit, incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship. And yet we must remember that humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them. The light of faith offers a perspective on reality that helps us recognize what we call the contingency of the things of the world.

[00:27:35]While it is right to strive to alleviate the suffering that marks human life, it is also wise to acknowledge our fundamental finitude, knowing that religious experience and in particular Christian faith propose that we live without oversimplification this ambivalence between human greatness and limitation, interpreting it in the light of our original and fundamental relationship with God.

[00:27:56]I say suffering allows a place where we have collective understanding.

[00:28:01]It's a universal constant of the human experience.

[00:28:05]To stop all suffering would be to stop living itself. I know that this is difficult to comprehend, but suffering creates spiritual growth.

[00:28:14]Were it not for my own personal suffering in my accident and paraplegia and uh constant pain, uh I would not be where I am in the spiritual sense. I would be probably a materialist atheist. It allows us to be compassionate, uh to be loving of one another. In effect, it allows us to be human.

[00:28:41]And uh we discuss obviously finitude. When truly accepted does not diminish us, but opens us to recognizing the face of God and others.

[00:28:49]And I say the end goal of humanity is to be fully human.

[00:28:54]Something that is increasingly rare in this day and age, self-transcendence, overcoming the self and seeing what all of this actually is is the goal.

[00:29:13]I discuss kind of how there's just an attack on humanity at large in the modern world. This is not just because of artificial intelligence, it's because of all technology in a lot of the sense.

[00:29:26]Uh, social media is demoralizing and dehumanizing in in many aspects. Um, the way that we uh, treat each other, the way that we look at governance, the way that we look at the world around us, all is unfortunately in many cases meant to dehumanize. And what we need to do is to reverse that and collectively stand up against what that is. And the saints are mentioned many, many times in this piece.

[00:29:54]It's it again, read the whole thing.

[00:29:58]In paragraph 133, he discusses effectively social media and platforms and how uh, the control over information um, is is is not a good thing to say the least. Um, the issue is that AI systems have ubiquity. Not just social media, but if once you try to shoehorn these into everywhere, which is Google at all is trying to do right now, um, you're going to blur the lines potentially of truth.

[00:30:29]Uh, when you have an LLM hallucination that produces something that is meant to be true and you quote it as it were gospel, then you are running into this issue headlong.

[00:30:40]Our culture is obsessed with creating our own reality, but in order to actually see reality, uh we have to submit ourselves to him. Uh we are living in a time which many would argue uh the truth doesn't matter or that it is what we make it. And that's tremendously dangerous. Um your truth, my truth, we can't even converse if that is the position that we are both coming from because we don't have any collective understanding. So, then you have to start every conversation with the definition and to have an agreement upon terms and all of that and that's we are effectively uh deconstructing language at this point because uh we are trying to will our truths into existence.

[00:31:31]Um Pope Leo discusses digital addiction and the use of screens for children and all of this. It's in probably about the late 130s to early 140s paragraphs. Um The discussion The discussion about education and what that truly entails um is an interesting point as well. So, he goes to say here he he's discussing how education is actually born from suffering. It's it's What he means by that is that in seeking an answer, you are learned.

[00:32:10]You gain knowledge.

[00:32:12]It's something that I've anecdotally seen in myself in that I ask for an answer from Claude or from Gemini or from whatever and I don't even remember that answer 5 minutes later because I didn't have to search for it myself. I didn't have to go work for it. And I think that that is one of the risks that I've seen just myself um with these large language models.

[00:32:36]As such, I've seen my creativity um dwindle at times, too, when I've been a heavy user of these things. To which I I can't even think up solutions. I just immediately prompt the LLM and and ask for the solution, and and that is not the way that you actually create real growth, real understanding.

[00:33:00]We go to the value of work, too, and it's such a mass massive point of conversation today about just job displacement and being left behind because you're not using AI systems, and it's uh this is another dehumanization tactic.

[00:33:19]Work as a dignity is actually an enhancement for the human being. Um It's why I see so many developers talk about their soul leaving their body when they prompt LLMs and get answers back because um they're not actually doing the work.

[00:33:38]They They don't feel like they're actually creating anything, and I think that that is the the the understanding.

[00:33:44]Um There's a discussion of unemployment actually as a grave evil.

[00:33:52]Um it is something that creates an environment in which a human being is without value. Um and that is a lie.

[00:34:01]Uh we're creating an environment of fear that is continually being propagated that everyone will lose their jobs, but nobody is asking then what?

[00:34:12]Who's going to buy the stuff that you're selling?

[00:34:16]Um And this is how you induce and create the cyberpunk dystopian, where you have a highly technological society, but a uh well, they say high-tech, lowlife.

[00:34:32]That is exactly what we are hurdling towards if that is what we're trying to create is that we have this technological technologically superior society, but everybody is miserable.

[00:34:45]Everybody doesn't have any life in them.

[00:34:50]And And one question I I I would want to ask these founders is that um how are you going to live a good life if that is the society that you're going to be living in? Like, the social unrest, like money doesn't solve those problems. It doesn't save you. And um I don't know. I don't I just feel like nobody's asking these questions.

[00:35:10]Um we go into Force Without Limits and about how AI policing and uh use in the military is is is not good. Autonomous weapon systems um no bueno.

[00:35:23]Uh In the past, the person pushing the button from thousands of miles away on the drone strike strike that kills a family at a wedding feels nothing.

[00:35:32]Pretty soon there will be no button and uh no one left to feel at all.

[00:35:38]It's something that uh came to mind when I was reading this.

[00:35:43]Pope Leo has actually called for the uh disarmament of autonomous uh weapon systems because of the fact that we dehumanize the act of warfare. Um it's yeah.

[00:35:59]It makes me sick, to be honest with you.

[00:36:02]In paragraph 232, uh transhumanism in the post-human world is discussed. In the promises of transhumanism and some post-humanist currents of thought which seek an enhanced and almost disembodied humanity, we recognize a yearning that is of concern to us, namely the need for a fuller life less exposed to limitations and suffering. Yet the incarnation opens a different pathway.

[00:36:24]On the one hand, old and new ideologies alike urge humanity to overcome limitations through technology and to rise above others by asserting dominance contrary to this. The mystery of the Son of God entering into our human condition promises something quite different. The living God descends into our history in order to free us from all forms of slavery. He takes upon himself our weakness and transforms it into a setting for salvation. There is no moment on or human situation that is not worthy of God. According to the teaching of our faith, we have and adore in our mysteries a God who is born in a manger, a God who lives and trans- travels in Judea, a God who dies on the cross, a dead God who lies in the tomb. The future of humanity therefore finds its standard in the ability to welcome this divine way of drawing near, of sharing the burden of the world, of transforming relationships from within. Oh, wonder man is God and this God-man passes through all those stages, endures all those states, and ennobles them, sanctifies them, deifies them in himself. What saves humanity is the divine love that descends into the most fragile point of our history and it renews it from within.

[00:37:31]Beautiful.

[00:37:32]Um Yeah, I in reading this, I I mean, as a humble layman, I think that Pope Leo is is doing a massive service.

[00:37:45]Um to see this discussion on such a technical level, too, um is is something that I think is massively massively needed.

[00:37:57]I I I highly urge you to go read this uh encyclical in its entirety um because it is so important for the world going forward. Um I'll leave you with this.

[00:38:13]I think that the human condition is something that we are not supposed to overcome. And rather, I think that what we are supposed to do is to become entirely and fully human in everything that we do. This life is a sacrament in every single moment of this life is sacramental. It's something that pushes us to become that which we are It pushes us to become that which we are really supposed to be. And truthfully, when we look at these technologies, what we do is actually become less human. Um and in as such, the human will, the human ability is is um not negated, but downplayed and devalued.

[00:39:05]Um recently, there was the enhanced uh Olympics or something or other. And in them, the enhanced athletes did not set a single record in comparison to the Olympic athletes.

[00:39:22]And it's something to be said that what we are doing in the technological space is creating just a shadow of the potential of humanity.

[00:39:37]Um it's something that I think about a lot these days. It's something that really has been playing on my heart. And I um yeah.

[00:39:48]I'll leave it at that, though.

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