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I despise AI, however, religious exceptions for work are stupid.
Go to work for your church/mosque/temple if it's that important for you.
If you're a Christian, live like a bird in the field, like Jesus says. Go pick through the garbage can and be content in your righteousness. You're reward isn't earthly, but in Heaven, right?
Also it usually it's just ok for their approved religions, anything else you are being stubborn
I'm not religious but I feel like people should have a right to take their annual leave for their religious holidays, yeah?
People should be able to take annual leave for whatever they want, provided contractual agreements and sufficient advance notice. I don't understand how any of it needs to do with religion.
Trying to start a long, boring conversation about ethics has worked so far to keep people from forcing their slop machines on me, but it's nice to know there are options
Now you can do both!
thank god.
“You can now get an exemption” is a huge overstatement.
Someone in North Carolina asked for it and happened to get it from her employer. That does not provide any firm basis for anyone else to follow. Any of us could have tried this last month with the same odds we have now.
"I'm a Butlerian."
But did you type that on your thinking machine?
I’m pretty sure that in Dune, all computers are banned, not just AI. You can’t even have a ship with a navigation computer.
the golden path
This is something that The Satanic Temple needs to get on board with.
tl;dr:
Maus is a Unitarian Universalist, a pluralistic religion that's rooted in the inherent worth of every person. In April, she argued that AI didn't align with her religious beliefs, citing environmental and ethical concerns.
Just so you know which religion to convert to.
There were already 100 reasons why the Unitarians are where it’s at.
But I really don’t think this is reason 101. All we have here is someone who asked their employer for this and was fortunate enough to have it granted.
That means nothing for anyone else. There is not some national law that all Unitarians have this protected right now.
So yeah… you might as well try on grounds that it offends Allah, because you’ll have the same odds.
Oh, good. One of the few religions that isn't predicated on making all non-members lives miserable.
I mean, hypothetically couldn't you just pick any belief structure outside of the top ten and make shit up? I'm a card carrying member of The Satanic Temple (which also puts an emphasis on human worth and social conscience) and I feel like I could swing this.
I've known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it's also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I'm getting old) and other social justice stuff.
My UU ordained friend is a nonbinary activist who was in Minneapolis during the ICE shit.
The first time I went to a UU service, I was invited to a rationalist group that meets there.
It’s all of the good things about religion (ie - community. People who will meal train for you when you are in trouble, people who will teach your kids good shit) without much of the baggage.
I’m personally going to start attending either a UU or a really loosely Methodist group just for the social aspect. I think one of the failures of atheism is the lack of acknowledgment of the benefits of community and ritual. There’s not enough “third places” in the world, and churches can fill that roll quite well. Perhaps this is just my own recent near death experience speaking, but it’s good to have a community that cares about you.
Unseen University?
I'm out of the loop now, but when I was younger there was a weird divide between the youth/young adult stuff, and adult.
The adult stuff was a lot of traditional "sit and listen to a talk".
The youth was a lot more hand on, interactive. "Let's start a bonfire, write down our fears, and throw them into it". "We got people from the community to teach how to make instruments out of junk".
I really liked it when I was younger, and met a lot of kids who were very cool.
Maybe I should see what's on offer around here. I don't want to go to a "service" but I miss the community sometimes.
Maybe I am religious...
In a country where most states are fire-at-will. You don’t have the cultural integrity to effectively use something like this.
Are you guys trying to get religion banned?
If you could ban religion, or ban AI, which would you ban?
If you ban religion AI will become people's God. So that is really not an option.
Religion has caused so much suffering though.
A blanket ban on AI seems extreme, perhaps banning commercialization would be the way to go so no one can try and profit from it. Obviously corporations would not like this idea.
If you ban religion AI will become people's God.
Say more here. It’s an interesting claim. Why do you see this as inevitable? I’m an atheist and AI has not become my god.
Well, I am just basing it off the fact that a bunch of people are already using AI in this fashion. Without something to fill this gap I think AI would be a likely candidate.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/silicon-valleys-obsession-with-ai-looks-a-lot-like-religion/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Future
It has already become common for existing religions to use AI to answer spiritual questions and preachers have started using it to write sermons.
I think cutting people off of traditional religion would accelerated this AI god concept. This is just my opinion of course.
@Doomsider @stickyprimer people are going to make AI into a religion regardless. We did it with books when they were first invented.
You say that like it's a bad thing
At this point, I feel like religion >> blind corporate loyalty. At least religion still pretends to care about people
It might help.
