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New comment by fgaanb in "Magnifica Humanitas"

fgaanb — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:10:08 +0000

Technically it is one of the ten commandments.

New comment by fgaanb in "Leave Me Behind"

fgaanb — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:09:01 +0000

Who is "we"? Do you operate a machine in a factory? Do you know how someone operating a machine felt in 1900?

Mechanical replacement cannot be compared with thought replacement anyway, but the most thoughtless pro-AI comment tends to be at the top.

New comment by fgaanb in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

fgaanb — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:03:54 +0000

Google knows exactly what it is doing. The downranked .edu domains which always ranked high in 2005. They want to feed people with rage bait and SEO websites, since the persons who read that garbage are the only ones who react to advertisements.

New comment by fgaanb in "Magnifica Humanitas"

fgaanb — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:00:55 +0000

The Pope is making a fundamental mistake here: His advisors told him that AI works and needs to be managed.

He does not address plagiarism, the fact that AI is mostly a surveillance and IP laundering tool, the fact that AI hasn't achieved much so far. You could say it has achieved nothing if compared to the whole history of human ingenuity, certainly not in CS.

He should have compared AI to the golden calf.

His criticism is lukewarm, does not address the criminal aspects and technological failures and is as such industry compliant. He can now say "I have tried" without harming the industry in the least.

This text is not what our current situation demands, but I hope that priests will augment and amplify it in their sermons and go a bit deeper.