https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Apostolic_Archive
Also, one of the biggest issues that Martin Luther had with Catholicism was that it put the clergy between the faithful and god.
*The Thirty Years' War enters, stage left*.
> Now how many hungry has OpenAI fed?
Around as many as the number of Python programs that the Catholic Church has written with Hindi comments, which was one of the first things I tried on ChatGPT.
There's also a reason why I said "apples (openness) to oranges (doing stuff)".
OpenAI also didn't send nine crusades to liberate the holy lands from the Muslims. Someone probably thinks that makes them "woke" or something.
…as OpenAI is only a few years old, wasn't the first few years of Christianity, before Catholicism split from other denominations, "oh no, we need to stop our converts committing suicide immediately because they want to get out of their awful lives and into the heaven we promised them and they're afraid they might sin again between baptism and death if they don't off themselves"?
Even with the weird end of the "Rapture of the Nerds" (the attitude not the book, I've not read the book), I don't think we're seeing so much of that resulting from AI development. And that's despite more users than there were Europeans in 1500 AD, let alone 1 AD.
The Catholic church has not only engaged in centuries of religious scholarship, it has given the knowledge freely to anyone. They even set up buildings where you can go and they will teach you what they have found, most people go on Sunday.
That isn't to mention their patronizing of the arts supported the greatest painters and composers that humanity has ever produced.
Now how many hungry has OpenAI fed?