Pope calls AI gay, Thiel loses sleep
The Pope just issued a theological smackdown on AI as soulless data compilation while Peter Thiel remains awake somewhere plotting humanity's silicon future. Meanwhile the pontiff's watching the White Sox on a 30-inch TV. The disconnect between Silicon Valley's messianic AI ambitions and institutional religion drawing hard lines on what makes us human is genuinely funny.
Quote from the Pope: "The mind must not simply compile data , as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can , but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize."
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/homilies/2026/documents/20261008-messa-univ-pontificie.html
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