Technology

Breaking: Lightning flashes, thunderous boom. Jesus Christ appears upon a obelisk in the center of the reflecting pool in DC.

And I say unto you: FUCKING HELL, CAN YOU ALL JUST STOP RUINING THE WORLD AND EACHOTHER, JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE MONEY AND FUCKING OVER THE POOR. EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD AND COMFORT AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON GET RICH QUICK AI BULLSHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE TO STOP YOU ASSHOLES.

I hate zealots. Fuckin religious twats trying to ruin it for everyone else.

This sounds an awful lot like idolatry to me, which is supposedly forbidden in Christianity.

According to the Bible, the end times will come when God's good and ready. It's blaspemous and extremely narcissistic to think that any human action can force God to hurry up.

Tech billionaires will totally destroy us all.

I don't believe in thier imaginary God. And I won't worship thier Robot one.

Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It's a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.

~~An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return~~

An ex-intel CEO's idea to make money by combining two money making tools

Holy shit, when does Big Tech ever stop being such a clown show???

Also:

This is the lamest Adeptus Mechanicus cosplay I’ve ever read about.

ChristAI can miraculously turn anything into shit. 🙏

These are definitely the people who end up killing us all.

Why would Christ want you literally playing God and fucking with his timeline?

this sexbot needs Jesus!

Jarred by his teachings, religious conservatives would reject a Christian AI modeled after Jesus as "too woke".

christians/conservatives fall for scams, ponzi schemes pretty easily. another way to grift these people.

jfc lmao

"Hi there! It looks like you're trying to summon Jeebus!" --Fundy Clippy

Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made, then he punished the Jews to wander the desert for 40 years.

This gives those vibes.

It feels plain wrong.

This is why humanities degrees are important. We're putting people into leadership positions surrounded by others who also have never critically engaged with a book.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” -- Frank Herbert

"Right now there is an explosive growth of the number of computers and things they can do. Not only are their numbers increasing at a dazzling rate, but the storage of information in giant data banks is growing in the same explosive way.

We have no way to control this now and none in sight. In fact, the very nature of this growth says that all controls will lag far behind computer developments. Any attempt to ban them will only drive com- puters underground. Never lose sight of the fact that computers "crunch time." The speed at which computers can operate tells us that laws cannot keep up with them. The person with a computer can dance rings around you while you react as though you were embedded in molasses.

What can you do?

Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. We are here to help you make that first step: how to find the one that fits your needs and your pocketbook, where to put it, how to program it-all of the essentials. If you don't do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties will go the way of the dodo." -- also Frank Herbert

I hate how much we seem to be slowly careening towards Frank Herbert's vision like the worse case of collective target fixation.

The ego on these people, calling themselves Christians but thinking God needs their help for his plans.

I realise you have to be somewhat off the rocker to be a billionaire CEO, but Pat is showing more of that than I expected here.

"We're building the Eschaton Immanentising Machine, from the famous theological treatise 'Don't Immanentise the Eschaton'"

(Also, using LLMs sounds a lot less efficient than the exhaustive search described in The Nine Billion Names of God)

When your god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and also can easily be manipulated by puny human technology into doing your bidding.