Catholic. Andean. Founder of Ojala (acq). Mentor @Techstars.
Joined July 2008
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MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
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Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.
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Supliquemos al Espíritu Santo el don de la #paz. Ante todo, la paz en los corazones: sólo un corazón pacífico puede difundir la paz en la familia, en la sociedad, en las relaciones internacionales. Que el Espíritu de Cristo resucitado abra caminos de reconciliación dondequiera que haya guerra; ilumine a los gobernantes y les dé el valor de realizar gestos de distensión y diálogo.
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You must pray often, and you must pray well. You’ve exchanged your prayer time with screentime, silence with distractions, mystical contemplation with politics, and the unique identity of your soul with a desire of recognition from the world. And yet, that can readily be undone with a single conscious choice, a mere slight effort to look within and simultaneously above, to invite and recognize God in every minute, in every breath, in all life’s beauty, and even the moments of distress. It’s not that He had left you, it’s that you have failed time and time again to notice Him patiently waiting for your return, your willingness, your love, your thanks, your praise, and your repentance. Ideally, we’d live in a perpetual state of reverence with Love radiating from our being and permeating all that we do, warming all those we meet, and revitalizing our spirits to be all who God intended us to be
“That which is not religious is not interesting.” -Nicolás Gómez Dávila youtu.be/iIiqxyIuMJk?si=NYLd…
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its not that language models will make the average piece of writing/art worse. it will raise the average massively.
its that when we apply industrial production to things of the heart (art, food, community) we end up with "better off on average" but deeply ill years later
Nos acercamos —como por descuido de la historia— a una era de secreta abundancia espiritual: no porque la humanidad ascienda, sino porque unos pocos, hastiados del progreso, redescubren lo eterno.
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We are what we adore. The quality of our leisure - or lack of it - determines how we behave, what we commit ourselves to, and who we become.
If we lose leisure, we lose our humanity.
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“It has become self-evident that it can no longer be a question of developing beauty from function alone, but we demand beauty as equal to function, that [beauty] be equally a function.” —Max Bill
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Entrepreneurship is gonna look a lot more like art than business because the only moat left will be taste, not technicality. The role of art has always been to detect the signs of cultural change—artists find creative arbitrages, saying what people think before they realize it themselves. So the future of consumer products depends on how well you can detect, define, and create what people want before they know it. Traditional market research might be less useful because most people don’t know/can’t articulate what they want—it’s up to the artistically intuitive and psychologically inclined thinkers to find the local religion or patterns of belief and desire in a given market.
“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” (Freud)
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We got these phone booths (a K6 from the 1930s, and a KX100 from the 1990s) for the @stripe lobby, as a reminder that there are always two paths in everything we make: something that elevates and makes you smile, or, well, whatever the thing on the right is.
