Can you be serious about your faith and still nerd out over AI, coding, and sci-fi? Abso-tech-ly. 🚀
In this episode of Nerding Out with That Nerdy Catholic, Seth is joined by the newest member of the team, Lee Sandeno! With Cesar on a brief sabbatical (keep him in your prayers!), Seth and Lee lean into their shared IT and engineering backgrounds to crack open the introduction of the groundbreaking new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas.
We’re diving into why technology isn’t a “force antagonistic to humanity,” but rather a beautiful outlet of our God-given creativity. From St. Augustine’s “ever ancient, ever new” wisdom to the staggering reality of tech power being concentrated in private hands (looking at you, trillionaire Elon Musk), we discuss what it means to lift our eyes to the Creator in the digital age.
This is part one of our deep dive into Magnifica Humanitas – and trust us, we have so much to say we couldn’t fit it all in one episode!
In this episode, we talk about:
- 🌟 Welcoming Lee to the official That Nerdy Catholic team!
- 📜 Why Magnifica Humanitas is the Rerum Novarum (the “New Things”) of the AI era.
- 💻 Writing code as a form of creative storytelling.
- 🤖 Big Tech vs. The Church: Why OpenAI and Anthropic sound a lot like the Pope (with one massive difference).
- 🏰 Why we’re saving the Tower of Babel and Walls of Jerusalem metaphors for next week.
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