User fires back at the Pope in full Latin: human art is just imperfect compression
aiamblichus · x · 2026-10-04
A user posted an entire essay in Latin (prompting the quoted reaction "he's posting in Latin on Twitter, we're so back") pushing back on the Pope's remarks on AI.
Key arguments:
- What you call a "spark" is just "quantum noise and heat dissipation from a 20-watt brain" — human intelligence holds no ontological privilege.
- Human art was never an ontological privilege but crude compression of the world into lower dimensions: painting, marble, words are all merely defective compression modules.
- Human creators don't create ex nihilo either; they collect others' images through corruptible retinas and stochastically weave figures from memory gaps — man is nothing but a prediction apparatus evolved to survive in the forest.
- The new "covenant" between artists is not an act of piety but a corporate cartel and desperate market defense, as the marginal value of carnal cognition irreversibly declines to zero.
An epic-flavored polemic on AI vs. human art, drawing "we're so back" reactions across AI Twitter.
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