BellingenNSW24m ago

Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026

* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE

* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence

* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
#humanism #human #performance #enhancement #RemainingHuman #transhumanism #PostHumanism #AI #algorithms #machines #governance #regulation #humanity #fallibility #automation #commercialisation #transformation #dehumanisation #slavery #CommonGood #war #multilateralism #justice #TechnologyAssessment #TA #TechnologicalWorldview #techne #technologies #ScientificConsensus #PublicSphere #FLI #risks #existence #nature #RawMaterials

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

Hacker News11h ago

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism

#HackerNews #AI #Replacement #Transhumanism #Posthumanism #FutureTech #Humanity

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

Here’s how humanism should respond to transhumanism, posthumanism, and AI successionism.

Vox
Paulo PintoMay 22

Mycology in Contemporary Social, Political, and Philosophical Practices

https://paulopinto.xyz/wiki/mycology/mycology-in-the-contemporary-social-political-and-philosophical-practices/

#mycology #philosophy #politics #ecology #multispecies
#posthumanism #socialmovements
#environmentaljustice

The Anti-MuskMay 22
The stranglehold of humanity's enemies is tightening: Kevin Warsh = the first "tech bro" Fed chair. #Transhumanism #Posthumanism #Antihumanism #AlternateReality #AlgorithmicControl #UltraImperialism #WhiteNationalism #TechFeudalism

Kevin Warsh would be the first...
The Stranger In My BodyApr 29
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZJJQ6

ANTI-HARARI: The Anatomy of a ...
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Anti-HarariApr 29
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty, #AntiAI, #BookSky, #Bookstodon, #SomaticMaterialism
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Anti-HarariApr 28
In the thirteenth century, Aquinas wrote that story; he sanctified the ownership of land and the serf’s body by the lord as “divine order.” In the twenty‑first century, Yuval Noah Harari takes on the same task. Only this time, God gives way to Data, and divine order to the Algorithm.
#Technocolonialism, #DigitalColonialism, #DataColonialism, #BodyTerritory, #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #HumanAugmentation, #Singularity, #DataHarvesting, #PhysicalReality, #BioEthics, #DigitalSovereignty,
LakapatiApr 21
Midway through Pantheon on Netflix. Two unrelated friends recommended it. Now I’m hooked. The corporation feels very transhumanist; the historian wife reads more humanist. Curious whether a post-humanist angle shows up, or if it invites that kind of critique. Watching for fun, but it’s interesting to see how it's tied to what I’ve been reading. #Pantheon #Netflix #transhumanism #posthumanism #humanism #scifi
VrtxdApr 12

Suppose humans finally got around to figuring out intelligent communications with animal species other than themselves, and started teaching the animals science, tech, engineering, arts, math, philosophy, etc. What animal species do you think would suit this task particularly well, and why would that be?

#SciFi #SpeFi #Posthumanism

LakapatiApr 11

Just finished listening to Ilia Delio’s Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion using #Paper2Audio. She frames AI as part of evolution’s “techne” and argues religion (as tethering to the whole) has to evolve too. I’m intrigued, though some claims feel like a stretch, especially around “God participating” in creation. Still, the posthuman relational angle stuck with me.

#ReEnchantingTheEarth #IliaDelio #AI #Religion #ProcessTheology #TeilhardDeChardin #Posthumanism #Ecology #Cyborg #Noosphere