Jack Backes

(🇺🇸/cath/acc)—Citizen. Father. Data Center expert. Nuclear advocate. Investor in civilization. Ex-LinkedIn. (opinions my own, etc)

[Jack Backes @jackwbackes]

Appropriate for holy Trinity Sunday

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@realDrTT Well, it compiles and passes heresy checks.

https://t.co/M13asRI2z0

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@realDrTT Would it create a singleton divine nature? Are there checks to prevent creating more than one of each Person? Is the act of instantiating the uncreated Person itself heretical? Might have to move it to the BIOS or preprogram into firmware.

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@realDrTT A voice crying in the wilderness

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@realDrTT I made DivinePerson a singleton. Unfortunately no way to model true simplicity that I can think of.

[Jack Backes @jackwbackes]

@realDrTT Well, it compiles and passes heresy checks.

https://t.co/M13asRI2z0

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@realDrTT But since it didn’t trigger the apocalypse it probably has some errors.

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@specialbeefbowl @realDrTT They can create their own UML in Greek. Or Ukrainian? Or Russian? or…?

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@realDrTT Yep. With help from my AI gremlins.

It has a built-in MCP so you can traverse the graph from within Claude.

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@realDrTT @ragnarisapirate Same.

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@lukeburgis https://t.co/LHvoQTpmeY

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@realDrTT Can I have Claude write my confession for me?

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I know which side of the Clone Wars that Pope Leo would have joined.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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@ArtemisConsort We need a positive approach rooted in the classical Catholic philosophical tradition of what AI is and is not.

We need the Church to give us the Thomas Aquinas of AI.

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My hope is that the Church can present a compelling counter-vision that includes AI. Like ok it doesn’t have a transcendent presence. It isn’t human. It doesn’t have a soul. But what IS it then? What is our proper relationship to this technology as such? We in the image of God have created something in the image of ourselves, using those same powers He gave us. We imitate our Father like children.

A child creates a crayon drawing of a sunset. The father doesn’t tell his father “that’s not a real sunset.” He puts it on the wall.

There is some positive reference to the potentials of AI in Magnifica Humanitas. I hope these ideas grow and develop to provide a positive vision to technologists and entrepreneurs.

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@kvallier He could also ensoul the moon.

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@growing_daniel The Latin -> Greek -> English transliteration of “Magnifica Humanitas” is “Anthropic is the Greatest [and OpenAI sucks]”