There's not a lot of daylight between this kind of religious ecstatic fervor for AIs and the NYT article that concluded that, because ChatGPT output a string containing "I am alive," ChatGPT must be sentient.
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There's not a lot of daylight between this kind of religious ecstatic fervor for AIs and the NYT article that concluded that, because ChatGPT output a string containing "I am alive," ChatGPT must be sentient.
L. Rhodes ⁂ (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
Who could have predicted that unleashing the world's most sophisticated bullshit engine would lead to this? https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
Merveilles (merveilles.town)
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There's not a lot of daylight between this kind of religious ecstatic fervor for AIs and the NYT article that concluded that, because ChatGPT output a string containing "I am alive," ChatGPT must be sentient.
L. Rhodes ⁂ (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
Who could have predicted that unleashing the world's most sophisticated bullshit engine would lead to this? https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
Merveilles (merveilles.town)
The "LessWrong" contingent in Silicon Valley is an apocalyptic cult that has re-invented very specific Christian concepts, just with "AI" in place of "God".
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The "LessWrong" contingent in Silicon Valley is an apocalyptic cult that has re-invented very specific Christian concepts, just with "AI" in place of "God".
@michael_w_busch @xgranade @futurebird ^THIS^
Especially the "We live in a Simulation" crap. It's just a rehashing of Calvinism and "The Divine Right of Kings" to make excuses for immoral and fascist behaviors by the powerful.
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@michael_w_busch @xgranade @futurebird ^THIS^
Especially the "We live in a Simulation" crap. It's just a rehashing of Calvinism and "The Divine Right of Kings" to make excuses for immoral and fascist behaviors by the powerful.
@kelpana @xgranade @futurebird
"Roko's Basilisk" is Pascal's Wager.
"The Singularity" is Evangelical rapture.
"Recursive simulated reality" is Mormon eternal progression.
