I think I will read this while running my agents in parallel. Thank you, my friend.

The writing is genuinely excellent.

In tech communities, we often talk about how many times productivity will increase, or whether AI has consciousness. But in religious documents, the focus is often on how the problems of the vulnerable and the community will change.

That is interesting to me. The worldview is Western and religious, so it feels somewhat unfamiliar, but at the same time, it seems useful as a way to rediscover values that we may have forgotten.

▲

keybored 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It can be fruitful to consider the potential negative ramifications of one’s work for once. Especially so when the program is busy anyway.

▲

osullivj 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Catholic Social Teaching: 19th C origins. An alternate base to Marxism for social justice.

▲

throw0101a 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Catholic Social Teaching: 19th C origins. An alternate base to Marxism for social justice.

See specifically perhaps the encyclical Rerum novarum (Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor) from 1891:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_novarum

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_social_teaching

Various others over the decades.

▲

dhosek 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Rerum Novarum was written by Leo XIII. When Robert Prevost took as his papal name Leo XIV, it was a clear signal of priorities, at least to those who are educated in church history and teaching. (There aren’t many names that carry a signal as clear as Leo. The only name that would have been in the same league might have been Francis II).

▲

toyg 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It should be said that, as in many other fields, it was effectively forced on the church by external development. Marx published The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Das Kapital in 1867; it took more than a generation for the church to accept that workers' rights were a thing.

Even after that shift, the Catholic Church continued to be a fundamentally reactionary force in the realm of social policies, all the way through the second world war.

	▲	stbede 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		[dead]

▲

bigstrat2003 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Rerum Novarum is an absolute banger. I had the pleasure of discovering it thanks to the discourse surrounding Leo XIV choosing his papal name, and I'm really glad I did. Leo XIII had some really insightful things to say about the problems surrounding workers' rights.

▲

bluegatty 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

'Communitarianism'.