What is happening on this world ? Somebody wake me up please.
Rejoice because it gives you purpose - to go fix it.
Religions using AI is an obvious move as religion has never been about a higher power, it’s about power,control, and money.
Had religions been about actual real higher powers then all of them would have been smited to hell and back for their behaviours.
There isn’t such a thing as a non evil religious organization
So AI is obvious for them. A system that can capture the less intelligent amongst us and make them members of the flock so that they get more money and power? Must be awesome
There isn’t such a thing as a non evil religious organization
What convinced you of this?
Name one
That doesn’t answer my question.
Idk bro, the eastern orthodox christians told me jews don’t go to heaven and gypsies are ok to be enslaved, the jews are bombing the shit out of innocent people, the muslims here in England done a thousand acid attacks on queers, the honor killings are a real thing still happening, I’ve crowd funded to extract people from Egypt because they came out as gay, they came to Germany and they still have seizures every day from the beatings ten years later. The organised cover ops of sexually deranged people who join the Catholic Church as priests. Caste systems, arranged marriages, female genital mutilation, systemic homophobia, literal gay bashings happening as we speak. Blonde Florida jesus being a-ok with the slavery and lynching in the southern states. I’m not even going to touch the subject of any kind of women rights as that’s a whole book.
All of these existing beyond religious organisations of course, mankind being the common denominator, so maybe it’s not the religious orgs making us do these things but surely is an outlet to feel superior and déshumanisé Others™.
30 million morons.
So Terry Davis was right… I guess. Who’s going to put an AI into TempleOS to honor him?
Well, we already know that the religious are stupid
Technology just helps them to be stupid more efficiently
Let me guess, the server on which the prompts are processed are located in the US, and the police has unlimited access to them?
the most frequent question from users is, “Is this actually God I am talking to?”
🤣🤣🤣
Oh boy, we should drive them out of our country, and give them a country of their own.
Oh wait…We already did, and the name of that country is USA!
We’re cooked
Bless me
FatherChat GPT for I have sinned.Repost:
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”
Honestly, expected. The Western painfully empty God-hole needs to be filled and hedonism and consumerism can only go so far. 🤷
Lots of people are painfully empty, theists or not. It’s part of the human condition. Some of us are just more honest about it than others.
Trying to stuff “god” into that hole isn’t a solution. It’s denial.
I don’t know if I agree with the notion of a god-hole.
There are different philosohcal approaches to making sense of it all and finding extistential meaning.
One my favourite quotes from Alan Watts (from the 50s no less):
"It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see?
So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time.
Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang. But you are. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are."
The gist of it is there is no god and yet paradoxically god is literally everything. How can there even be a “god-hole” with such an approach?
I am not saying this (or any other approach) is the right way for a given individual. Just pointing out an existential view that works for me.
My argument is that we have all these information technologies and we don’t really know what to do with them. As things stands they merely enable a group of oligarchs, authoritarians, professional demagogues, fraudulent hustlers.
And deep down no one wants to be in such a position and no amount of money or technological distractions can account for that.
the vast majority of people need something to believe in. very few people can live with the detachment of skeptical approaches to life. if they don’t have a god or a religion they will substitute something else for that role. politics or sports are two big ones.
even the tech gods themselves, are mostly driven by egotistical belief sets where they tend to ignore any information that doesn’t cohere and reinforce their beliefs.
Sure. I agree.
I was just pointing out that the “god-hole”, which to my understanding refers to divergence from “traditional” religious participation, isn’t necessarily a lack of god in your life (a “god hole” if you will).
I believe some of the apocryphal biblical texts from the 1st/2nd century CE also refer to concepts such as “god is all around us, god is everything”. These texts were rejected for formal inclusion in the Bible for whatever reason.
I also disagree that concepts outlined by Watts (in that specific quote and in general) are necessarily skeptical in their outlook. I would say they are very empowering and align with our broader understanding of the universe.
But my bigger point is the rise of “FaithTech” is more of socio-political issue. Oligarchs have started dominate and there is no way out so people endulge in LLMs as opposed to going to church (or engaging in approach proposed by people such as Alan Watts).
So “God” is a LLM trained on all human text. Created in the image of man. And it helps you analyse bible texts, in stead of going through a pastor, not very Catholic is it?
“My time is yours…”
George Lucas was right.
bruce almighty (2003)
We killed God once, and we can do it again.
