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If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.
I mean yeah, but you assume it will be trained on the whole bible and not just the parts that enforce his will.
There will be smiting of immigrants. Yea.
Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.
Danger. Danger.
Stop asking "what would Jesus do?", use Jesus API.
JAAS.
Save your soul for only 20.99 a month… wait I guess this isn’t really that new.
Curing cancer? Nooo
Protecting children from gun shots? Nooo
Making sure children are educated and fed? Nooo
Let's build a fucking ball room and create a Jesus chat bot -- YES
I cannot believe that this is the future we were waiting for.
Just corporations trying to bring on the apocalypse so they don't have to pay a little more in taxes.
Normal stuff
Pay no attention to the ex-Intel CEO behind the curtain.
That thing better be running on TempleOS and be coded with HolyC, or I'm calling BS and telling people they've just found a new way to make LLMs even more annoying than they already were.
Mark my words — but we’re going to see a time (in our lifetimes) where a group of people is going to worship an AI as “divine”. And you won’t be able to convince them otherwise. An AI-centric cult is all but inevitable at this point. And it will be self-reinforcing.
I don't think it will take long either. When you look at all the grifts the American evangelists pull, and people fall for it every time, then you've got all these people thinking that Trump is anointed by God or some such crap. No problem at all in selling these idiots the idea that they have an instant always-on hotline to God via God's Chosen LLM. Then you've got them locked in to whatever psychosis you choose to construct for them.
I’m willing to bet you could convince a subset of those people that such an LLM is in fact the second coming of Christ. So not just some tool “approved” by God, but that the LLM is the God itself.
Then (to the “true believers” minds) whatever it says will be unquestionable. And then whomever is pulling the strings behind the scenes can commit whatever atrocities they desire.
Is this irony or something? Use Ai to get closer to god? Its the exact opposite people need to do.
Help me! I broke apart my insides!
ever notice that, with LLMs, the main goal of the people who own them is to turn them from machines that spit out information they gathered in realistic-ishly human ways to machines that spit out what their owners want people to believe?
Actually this is a pretty impressive grift. I don’t think anyone has tried this before.
lol
Yeah sure why not, it’s not like they’re trying to be taken serious anymore…
Hastening the coming? He needs to reread the bible then.
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." - Matthew 24:36
If more Christians would read the bible, there'd be less Christians.
I was brought up Catholic. The Dominican brothers taught me to think critically. Now I'm not a Catholic, or any kind of Christian, anymore.
And for the fractally schismatic fundamentalist Protestants, they stopped adhering to a Christian belief system over a century ago. Very little that they believe has any connection to Christianity, and most of it contradicts core beliefs. For them, it's just a tribal identity. "We're the chosen people and everyone else is wrong."
They think that they can force God's hand. They're that arrogant.
Anyway, the whole fundie end-times narrative is late 19th-century fanfic. It not only contradicts their scriptures, it's also incoherent and badly written. At least Dante, when he made things up, was consistent with the core beliefs, as well as his work being far better-written and more coherent than the source literature. But the Rapture is just the rantings of tent-show shysters. Even bronze-age shepherds did better.
Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It's a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.
Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.
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 think I understand skynet now. It must have been a Christian AI and decided it would bring upon the rapture, and no one was worthy.
We have TempleOS already, but thanks anyway.
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.
Having to reach waaay back into the memories of my Christian upbringing here, but I seem to recall that God doesn’t like people who try to game the system
This sounds an awful lot like idolatry to me, which is supposedly forbidden in Christianity.
Holy shit, when does Big Tech ever stop being such a clown show???
Also:
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.
Holding a view like that would require these people to have read their own mythology and I doubt many of them are even literate.
Fundamentalism is inherently opposed to scientific discovery and technological creativity.
~~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
The ego on these people, calling themselves Christians but thinking God needs their help for his plans.
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.
I hate zealots. Fuckin religious twats trying to ruin it for everyone else.
I feel like we're forgetting that this is the apocalypse. He wants to start the apocalypse.
Never forget that Christians think that the apocalypse is a good thing.
Oh yay antichrist
