Rerum Novarum
"Rerum Novarum" de Leon XIII. Pape (1810-1903)."
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- I would also recommend God and Golem, Inc., A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion:
https://monoskop.org/images/1/1f/Wiener_Norbert_God_and_Gole...
Norbert Weiner was an atheist but he talks about three areas religion is the only thing to have really examined that relate to capable AI: omniscience, omnipotence, and worship (gadget worship). It has very prescient stuff on blackbox learning/distillation, reinforcement learning/reward hacking, alignment through human feedback.
His The Human Use of Human beings and Cybernetics are extremely good too and have more of a mash of the themes between Rerum Novarum and Magnifca Humanitas, and more near-term automation.
- From the Roman Catholic point of view, there's a variety of answers.
For super up-to-date happenings, you can go to Vatican News[1]. (A great example in the first article, "Holy See urges moratorium on autonomous weapons at UN debate on AI".)
For weightier, more timeless writings that address the issues of the current day, but are meant to be read indefinitely, the Papal Encyclicals[2] are the look. Rerum Novarum is a good one to start with.
I'd be skeptical of any persuasive writings by lay-persons (i.e. not priests or nuns). It's like the difference between a lawyer's opinion and a judge's ruling. They can be fantastic scholars, but they don't speak for the church.
1: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city.html 2: https://www.papalencyclicals.net/
- "in the enormous fortunes of some few individuals, and the utter poverty of the masses".
the wisdom of Pope Leo XIII Rerum Novarum appears as relevant today as it was in 1891: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_novarum
- metaphysics, for a start. Rerum Novarum is fascinating reading.
They're nonexclusive options, though: dorothy day, for example, was comfortable in both camps (as much as she was comfortable in a camp at all)
- I find it's good to re-read Rerum Novarum[1] (1891) and Centesimus Annus[2] (1991), now and again:
[1] http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documen...
[2] http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/doc...
- Religious edict certainly helped a lot.
There were church mandated holidays in the Middle Ages. Lots of them.
The current pope chose his name to signal his continuation of Pope Leo XVIII's teachings on worker's rights, particularly the papal encylical Rerum Novarum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_novarum
During the industrial revolution many people treated their workers better because of their religious belief - the Quaker industrialists of Britain are a prominent example.
Just off the top of my head examples.
