Still that's kinda rich coming from one of the world's biggest leaders of religion, which literally encourages people to believe things without evidence and simply based on who tells them, based on unseen guidance.
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Yeah, you know things are bad when one of the major manipulator entities in history says you're manipulating too much
"Passive consumers of unthought thoughts"?
You mean... like a religion brainwashes you into becoming as you're indoctrinated?
Maybe this guy is being decent, or maybe he just sees a threat to his monopoly?
AI is just the next form of control after businesses have already infiltrated online forums.
I'm... What? WTF, is that headline trying to tell me that I'm experiencing an aneurysm?
The pope doesn’t like AI, brandished a sword and called people idiots. More at 11
That's kinda based ngl. Too bad the Catholic church is an awful organization.
Okay but what if we put their awfulness into a directed form aaaaand they burnt down Constantinople... again.
But Constantinople is Istanbul
No, istanbul is Constantinopoli
I mean, it's nobody's business but the Turks', so I guess I should just keep my mouth shut
Ok he was cooking with that line.
"unthought thought" might replace "artificial hallucination" in my vocabulary.
The enemy of my enemy and all that. If dude can convince any of his followers to wake the fuck up then let the man speak; we could use the numbers.
'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'
That's brilliant! I'm not Catholic, I'm not even religious at all, and I've NEVER paid attention to any Pope, but this guy is different.
He's American with black heritage, so being different than the ones before is basically built in.
Never fear though, there's a shoe waiting to drop somewhere, there always is.
He is Peruvian in my book
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Yo, where can I get me a pope sword?
I got mine from kultofathena.com 20 years ago for 40 bucks (though with fancier blade), but just checked and don't think they sell it anymore.
You can have it if you want, it's just laying in my basement.
3, 2, 1... Peter Thiel is giving some spiel in Europe about the Pope being the Antichrist
"I'm definitely not the antichrist, so much so I go around holding events to discuss the antichrist and how I am not him." The lack of self reflection or perhaps just plain evil is astounding
Look... Im sure this is not the first time the pope has been called the antichrist. It likely happened in 884, 964, 997, 1012, 1378, 1409, or 1418 to just name a few.
(This is not be taken seriously, I grabbed a bunch of years from the Wikipedia list of antipopes to make a point when the role was contested. In the case of the ones between 1378-1418, where a bloody mess is an understatement (I would rather read history on the war of the roses), there have been significantly fewer violent disagreements regarding the title/position since then)
Hell I'm sure you could probably throw a bunch of even earlier dates in from back when the Catholics and Orthodox were united under the Chalcedonian Roman Church.
Hear me out, Trump is the Antichrist!
Well yeah, the pope is Antichrist.
The whole assassination of Jesus was an inside job orchestrated be Peter to become the first pope and lead the flock astray right in the hands of the devil!
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Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts
Interesting contrast to the church itself, which has the capacity of turning people into passive consumers of thoughts that have been painstakingly processed for centuries.
They don’t appreciate their fanbase being taken away
Passive consumers of overthought thoughts?
Passive consumers of poorly thought thoughts.
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a broken clock
"passive consumers of unthought thoughts" is an apt way of putting it. With AI, it's so easy not to think and have it think for you, even in things that you should really want to think about because it's entertaining.
For example, I've been re-watching Game of Thrones, and I wondered how things would have changed if Joffrey had a father figure in his life that wasn't Robert, say a teacher in swordsmanship. I could spend a lot of time thinking about how Cersei would see this teacher as a rival and want him dead, whether Robert would protect that teacher because he's making Joffrey into more of a 'man', whether Joffrey being trained as a swordsman would make him braver, and even if everything happened as written up to the Blackwater, would Joffrey find his courage and go out into battle, and ultimately get killed by one of Stannis' soldiers? What would happen to Sansa?
Or... I could just ask ChatGPT, get a quick answer, and forget all about it.
Dude I think at this point you're medically required to write that fanfiction.
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rare pope W
This is the way the papacy has been for 13 years now.
Pope can't handle the competition.
Being the head of the longest-running pedophile ring in history doesn't give one much high ground to chastise from.
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