Kevin Hughes

Professor of Historical Theology - Villanova University || Loyola Blakefield (RDR) || Villanova U || University of Chicago Div||

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@lukeburgis This seems tendentious to me. Why choose? Why not include personalism as ingredient to the new Christian humanism?

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@lukeburgis Maybe save “abomination” for something that is, I dunno, actually an abomination? I don’t love it. At all. But does it misrepresent the content and teaching of the encyclical? Does it distort Catholic teaching or mislead the faithful? Those are questions beneath hyperbole.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@NYpoet @CNN I mean, pope Leo isn’t exactly a fan of Opus, is he? https://t.co/bJj8wbnnSJ

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@juddrosenblatt It’s at least equally magical thinking to think that what looks like consciousness because it’s been taught to imitate consciousness actually is consciousness, same-same.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

There’s a longer conversation to be had here to clarify terms like “intelligence” and “consciousness”…not sure Leo’s account of intelligence as embodied, storied, and felt wouldn’t fit better under “consciousness,” But that’s a convo for a different day.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@deanwball The inferences are all wrong. Leo quite specifically critiques a functionalist account of intelligence as inadequate. And Olah expresses wonderment at what he can only say *functionally* looks joy. So what you have here is the start of a good conversation, not a “violation.”

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@DSDOConnor Maybe it just means what most people have taken it to mean.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@DSDOConnor Yeah so that’s not how I read that at all. That UBI would “provide necessities” doesn’t mean that it would replace work, except in cases of its abuse. But Pope Francis isn’t obligated to correct the fevered overdetermined readings of his critics, I don’t think.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@DSDOConnor That’s quite a leap, it seems to me. The address you link to speaks at great length about the dignity of work as well as UBI, and he offered very few details about its implementation or scope.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@Li34041 @DSDOConnor Yeah, except that’s not actually true in practice. See my response above.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@DSDOConnor UBI proposals, roughly speaking, are of two types, full and partial. A full UBI program has never, to my knowledge, been tried. Partial UBI programs have been tried in the short term. So, in the real world, so far, only partial UBI programs have ever been attempted.

[Heidi Schlumpf @HeidiSchlumpf]

"Calling for prudence, rigorous evaluation and even, at times, a slower pace in adopting AI does not mean opposing progress; instead, it is an exercise of responsible care for the human family." #magnificahumanitas

https://t.co/hBgIsYIFne

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@mfjlewis @DaultRadio Yes 💯. Which makes the inclusion of Olah at the launch all the more interesting.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@mattyglesias Are we ready to put an AI on trial for its crime? If not, why not? If so, why now? What precisely has changed to make AI a subject, a person, if so? When Grok went crazy, we blamed Elon (have we changed?). Those are real questions which “mind/body dualism” only obfuscates.

[Kevin Hughes @Hughes69Kevin]

@mattyglesias There are questions to be asked here, whether the account of ai is capacious enough, eg, but it’s hardly “mind/body dualism”. It’s exactly not.