Have you talked about any of these ideas with any actual high rationality Catholics?
I agree in a relatively straightforward way with their cautious eschatology about Judgment Day and the Second Coming of Christ, which I see as straightforwardly mapping onto thinking about a technological singularity and taking seriously its moral implications. Whether or not they were right by coincidence is sort of besides the point, as their emphasis is correct either way. (At some point I would like to talk to the Church to see if they’re interested in funding FAI research; unfortunately I’m not sure how competent the modern Church is, nor what factions of it would be competent. Traditionally the Dominicans are impressive.)
Somehow I get the impression that they wouldn’t agree with your interpretation.
Somehow I get the impression that they wouldn’t agree with your interpretation.
Any of them? How familiar are you with the more philosophically apt and open-minded Church authorities? Are there so few that it’d be impossible to get even a little traction? (I’m thinking a few years down the line when the “save the world” memeplex is better established.)
Have you talked about any of these ideas with any actual high rationality Catholics?
Somehow I get the impression that they wouldn’t agree with your interpretation.
Any of them? How familiar are you with the more philosophically apt and open-minded Church authorities? Are there so few that it’d be impossible to get even a little traction? (I’m thinking a few years down the line when the “save the world” memeplex is better established.)
As far as Catholics you might be interested in talking to, there’s John C. Wright. I assume you are familiar with his background.