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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Trust Begins With Scientific Consensus
What do we do with people who want to challenge established scientific consensus? Food science is a mature…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #Expertise #FoodTechnologyMagazine #majority #May/June2026 #No.3 #reputation #science #scientificconsensus #soundscience #technology #trustinscience #unitedstatesofamerica #Vol.80
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Orange Canna Lily that survived two Pennsylvania winters. Climate change is real, happening now, and overwhelmingly caused by human activities, with a scientific consensus of 97% or more, confirmed by major scientific bodies like NASA and the IPCC. #globalwarming #climatechange #climate #earth #motherearth #scientificconsensus
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Orange Canna Lily that survived two Pennsylvania winters. Climate change is real, happening now, and overwhelmingly caused by human activities, with a scientific consensus of 97% or more, confirmed by major scientific bodies like NASA and the IPCC. #globalwarming #climatechange #climate #earth #motherearth #scientificconsensus
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"Climate skeptics" are a thing of the past?
No. That's why we're here.
Bogus #ClimateSkepticism comes in various flavors. Many so-called skeptics are indeed cranks but others come in the passive form, their basis of doubt or disbelief mired in innocent ignorance.
Innocent ignorance can be fostered, cultivated-- and that's exactly what's happened over the course of decades in connection with #ScientificConsensus on #ClimateChange.
Learn more:
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"Climate skeptics" are a thing of the past?
No. That's why we're here.
Bogus #ClimateSkepticism comes in various flavors. Many so-called skeptics are indeed cranks but others come in the passive form, their basis of doubt or disbelief mired in innocent ignorance.
Innocent ignorance can be fostered, cultivated-- and that's exactly what's happened over the course of decades in connection with #ScientificConsensus on #ClimateChange.
Learn more:
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"Scientists and those who champion them should never close ranks against empirical challenge and criticism."
George Monbiot on how criticism of the framing of CFS/ME as a psychiatric illness was portrayed as abusive to delegitimise patient concerns.
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"Scientists and those who champion them should never close ranks against empirical challenge and criticism."
George Monbiot on how criticism of the framing of CFS/ME as a psychiatric illness was portrayed as abusive to delegitimise patient concerns.
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What's a bit of a shame is that people with the "inside baseball" perspective constantly refer to consensus, without realizing that in common parlance it doesn't mean what's intended to be communicated. Scientific consensus isn't the same as consensus on what pizza to buy, a pitfall.
We (@SkepticalScience) took a stab at filling in this gap, because a widely accessible and reasonably complete explanation wasn't available.
#ScientificConsensus
https://skepticalscience.com/publishing-a-long-overdue-explainer-about-a-scientific-consensus.html -
What's a bit of a shame is that people with the "inside baseball" perspective constantly refer to consensus, without realizing that in common parlance it doesn't mean what's intended to be communicated. Scientific consensus isn't the same as consensus on what pizza to buy, a pitfall.
We (@SkepticalScience) took a stab at filling in this gap, because a widely accessible and reasonably complete explanation wasn't available.
#ScientificConsensus
https://skepticalscience.com/publishing-a-long-overdue-explainer-about-a-scientific-consensus.html -
This paper a perfect example of #consilience !
[Even more powerful than #ScientificConsensus.]
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This paper a perfect example of #consilience !
[Even more powerful than #ScientificConsensus.]
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#ScientificConsensus with Dr John Cook
Misconceptions about consensus in science abound (and are sometimes encouraged). It it a popularity contest? Mindless conformity? If not those, what? To answer these and many other questions, Melanie Trecek-King - who runs the "Thinking is Power" website - talked with John Cook about the scientific consensus in general and about his study finding 97% consensus about human-cased climate change in particular.
#ClimateCognition
https://skepticalscience.com/conversation-about-the-scientific-consensus.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks -
#ScientificConsensus with Dr John Cook
Misconceptions about consensus in science abound (and are sometimes encouraged). It it a popularity contest? Mindless conformity? If not those, what? To answer these and many other questions, Melanie Trecek-King - who runs the "Thinking is Power" website - talked with John Cook about the scientific consensus in general and about his study finding 97% consensus about human-cased climate change in particular.
#ClimateCognition
https://skepticalscience.com/conversation-about-the-scientific-consensus.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks -
It matters who does science
A monolithic group of scientists will bring many of the same preconceived notions to their work. But a group of many backgrounds will bring different points of view that decrease the chance that one prevailing set of views will bias the outcome. This means that scientific consensus can be reached faster and with greater reliability. It also means that the applications and implications will be more just for all.
#Science #ScientificConsensus #DiversityinScience #Diversity
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@StrassenKatze There was a long scientific debate since the mid-1800s about the origins of #birds — whether they came from #dinosaurs or not. The scientific consensus that birds are dinosaurs only came about around 2011!
#evolution #ScientificConsensus
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#scientificconsensus that #conversiontherapy is ineffective at changing a person's #sexualorientation or #genderidentity and that it frequently causes significant, long-term #psychologicalharm in individuals who undergo it.[2]
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#scientificconsensus that #conversiontherapy is ineffective at changing a person's #sexualorientation or #genderidentity and that it frequently causes significant, long-term #psychologicalharm in individuals who undergo it.[2]
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#scientificconsensus that #conversiontherapy is ineffective at changing a person's #sexualorientation or #genderidentity and that it frequently causes significant, long-term #psychologicalharm in individuals who undergo it.[2]
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#scientificconsensus that #conversiontherapy is ineffective at changing a person's #sexualorientation or #genderidentity and that it frequently causes significant, long-term #psychologicalharm in individuals who undergo it.[2]
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#scientificconsensus that #conversiontherapy is ineffective at changing a person's #sexualorientation or #genderidentity and that it frequently causes significant, long-term #psychologicalharm in individuals who undergo it.[2]
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Deadly familiar tripping point when talking about consensus on climate change: "just because a lot of people agree doesn't mean it's true."
Remember to define terms. "Scientific consensus" isn't the same as agreeing what flavor of pizza to buy. Scientific consensus is a funnel made of mutually supportive theories & research findings, squeezing agreement into the same container.
We belatedly try to get brains on the same page:
https://skepticalscience.com/publishing-a-long-overdue-explainer-about-a-scientific-consensus.html
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Deadly familiar tripping point when talking about consensus on climate change: "just because a lot of people agree doesn't mean it's true."
Remember to define terms. "Scientific consensus" isn't the same as agreeing what flavor of pizza to buy. Scientific consensus is a funnel made of mutually supportive theories & research findings, squeezing agreement into the same container.
We belatedly try to get brains on the same page:
https://skepticalscience.com/publishing-a-long-overdue-explainer-about-a-scientific-consensus.html
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When happening upon a neat article, explaining what a #ScientificConsensus is, we realized, that - even though we have a lot of material about the #consensus - we were lacking an explainer about what a scientific consensus actually is. We have now remedied this and created a page with an explainer and an accompanying glossary entry which will point our readers towards that page with a small pop-up-box.
https://skepticalscience.com/publishing-a-long-overdue-explainer-about-a-scientific-consensus.html
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When happening upon a neat article, explaining what a #ScientificConsensus is, we realized, that - even though we have a lot of material about the #consensus - we were lacking an explainer about what a scientific consensus actually is. We have now remedied this and created a page with an explainer and an accompanying glossary entry which will point our readers towards that page with a small pop-up-box.
https://skepticalscience.com/publishing-a-long-overdue-explainer-about-a-scientific-consensus.html
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@Empiricism Sometimes I can be too subtle, other times too cryptic.
My "added comments" would be just hoping to extend what I find to be valuable posts. Stronger critique or disagreement would (hopefully) be more obvious!
I think the term #CognitiveDissonance isn't going away, nor should be. I think #CognitiveHarmony fits very well with it.
When "solutions aren't clear" then we have a false state of harmony, no? [problem > solution > (harmony?) bias > correction > harmony!]
So now we can see that 'truth' (as applied to #ScientificConsensus) plays a role, in addition to perception. [The #historic unsolved problem of perception of #consonance deals directly with the human side, where #perception & opinion reign. This perception of "sounds right/good" does not cross #cultural boundaries without its own dissonance.]
So we have both #binary situations (T/F) and #trinary (and beyond), where there is no #ExcludedMiddle, no right/wrong. I'd like to invoke a #systemic description that can accommodate these different levels.
Even if this is just meant for individuals, a #gradient, #quantitative style of #measurement could be a helpful addition to what you laid out. It can help us be more #adaptable, accepting of change or differences, not feeling 'stupid' when wrong (or viewing others through that lens), participate more effectively in #democratic & scientific #processes, etc.
This is a #generalized enough idea that it is able to cross over into many, even disparate #disciplines. I think we align with the desire to improve existing #models, including the way they are communicated to the public.
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@Empiricism Sometimes I can be too subtle, other times too cryptic.
My "added comments" would be just hoping to extend what I find to be valuable posts. Stronger critique or disagreement would (hopefully) be more obvious!
I think the term #CognitiveDissonance isn't going away, nor should be. I think #CognitiveHarmony fits very well with it.
When "solutions aren't clear" then we have a false state of harmony, no? [problem > solution > (harmony?) bias > correction > harmony!]
So now we can see that 'truth' (as applied to #ScientificConsensus) plays a role, in addition to perception. [The #historic unsolved problem of perception of #consonance deals directly with the human side, where #perception & opinion reign. This perception of "sounds right/good" does not cross #cultural boundaries without its own dissonance.]
So we have both #binary situations (T/F) and #trinary (and beyond), where there is no #ExcludedMiddle, no right/wrong. I'd like to invoke a #systemic description that can accommodate these different levels.
Even if this is just meant for individuals, a #gradient, #quantitative style of #measurement could be a helpful addition to what you laid out. It can help us be more #adaptable, accepting of change or differences, not feeling 'stupid' when wrong (or viewing others through that lens), participate more effectively in #democratic & scientific #processes, etc.
This is a #generalized enough idea that it is able to cross over into many, even disparate #disciplines. I think we align with the desire to improve existing #models, including the way they are communicated to the public.
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@Empiricism Sometimes I can be too subtle, other times too cryptic.
My "added comments" would be just hoping to extend what I find to be valuable posts. Stronger critique or disagreement would (hopefully) be more obvious!
I think the term #CognitiveDissonance isn't going away, nor should be. I think #CognitiveHarmony fits very well with it.
When "solutions aren't clear" then we have a false state of harmony, no? [problem > solution > (harmony?) bias > correction > harmony!]
So now we can see that 'truth' (as applied to #ScientificConsensus) plays a role, in addition to perception. [The #historic unsolved problem of perception of #consonance deals directly with the human side, where #perception & opinion reign. This perception of "sounds right/good" does not cross #cultural boundaries without its own dissonance.]
So we have both #binary situations (T/F) and #trinary (and beyond), where there is no #ExcludedMiddle, no right/wrong. I'd like to invoke a #systemic description that can accommodate these different levels.
Even if this is just meant for individuals, a #gradient, #quantitative style of #measurement could be a helpful addition to what you laid out. It can help us be more #adaptable, accepting of change or differences, not feeling 'stupid' when wrong (or viewing others through that lens), participate more effectively in #democratic & scientific #processes, etc.
This is a #generalized enough idea that it is able to cross over into many, even disparate #disciplines. I think we align with the desire to improve existing #models, including the way they are communicated to the public.
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@Empiricism Sometimes I can be too subtle, other times too cryptic.
My "added comments" would be just hoping to extend what I find to be valuable posts. Stronger critique or disagreement would (hopefully) be more obvious!
I think the term #CognitiveDissonance isn't going away, nor should be. I think #CognitiveHarmony fits very well with it.
When "solutions aren't clear" then we have a false state of harmony, no? [problem > solution > (harmony?) bias > correction > harmony!]
So now we can see that 'truth' (as applied to #ScientificConsensus) plays a role, in addition to perception. [The #historic unsolved problem of perception of #consonance deals directly with the human side, where #perception & opinion reign. This perception of "sounds right/good" does not cross #cultural boundaries without its own dissonance.]
So we have both #binary situations (T/F) and #trinary (and beyond), where there is no #ExcludedMiddle, no right/wrong. I'd like to invoke a #systemic description that can accommodate these different levels.
Even if this is just meant for individuals, a #gradient, #quantitative style of #measurement could be a helpful addition to what you laid out. It can help us be more #adaptable, accepting of change or differences, not feeling 'stupid' when wrong (or viewing others through that lens), participate more effectively in #democratic & scientific #processes, etc.
This is a #generalized enough idea that it is able to cross over into many, even disparate #disciplines. I think we align with the desire to improve existing #models, including the way they are communicated to the public.
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@Empiricism Sometimes I can be too subtle, other times too cryptic.
My "added comments" would be just hoping to extend what I find to be valuable posts. Stronger critique or disagreement would (hopefully) be more obvious!
I think the term #CognitiveDissonance isn't going away, nor should be. I think #CognitiveHarmony fits very well with it.
When "solutions aren't clear" then we have a false state of harmony, no? [problem > solution > (harmony?) bias > correction > harmony!]
So now we can see that 'truth' (as applied to #ScientificConsensus) plays a role, in addition to perception. [The #historic unsolved problem of perception of #consonance deals directly with the human side, where #perception & opinion reign. This perception of "sounds right/good" does not cross #cultural boundaries without its own dissonance.]
So we have both #binary situations (T/F) and #trinary (and beyond), where there is no #ExcludedMiddle, no right/wrong. I'd like to invoke a #systemic description that can accommodate these different levels.
Even if this is just meant for individuals, a #gradient, #quantitative style of #measurement could be a helpful addition to what you laid out. It can help us be more #adaptable, accepting of change or differences, not feeling 'stupid' when wrong (or viewing others through that lens), participate more effectively in #democratic & scientific #processes, etc.
This is a #generalized enough idea that it is able to cross over into many, even disparate #disciplines. I think we align with the desire to improve existing #models, including the way they are communicated to the public.