That’s a big problem with the extraordinary claim for me: “there isn’t wide agreement about what it is, but I feel very emotionally invested in this treat printer that tells me it loves me if it is prompted to say so, so of course there’s a waifu ghost in there and you can’t tell me otherwise, you lowly meat computers!”
They mock religious people while so many of them believe that there’s some unspecified “simulation” that was put into motion by some great all-powerful universe creator, too. Deism with extra steps. Similarly, their woo bullshit about how a robot god of the future will punish their current enemies long after they’re dead (using the power of dae le perfect simulations) and raise them from the dead into infinite isekai waifu harems (also by using the power of dae le perfect simulations) is totally not magical thinking and not a prophecy they’re waiting to have fulfilled.
By playing god, people keep reinventing god. It’s deeply ironic and reminds me of this interpretation of Marx, and critique of modernity, by Samir Amin:
Nevertheless, another reading can be made of Marx. The often cited phrase–“religion is the opium of the people”–is truncated. What follows this remark lets it be understood that human beings need opium, because they are metaphysical animals who cannot avoid asking themselves questions about the meaning of life. They give what answers they can, either adopting those offered by religion or inventing new ones, or else they avoid worrying about them.
In any case, religions are part of the picture of reality and even constitute an.
important dimension of it. It is, therefore, important to analyze their social function, and in our modern world their articulation with what currently constitutes modernity: capitalism, democracy, and secularism.
The way many see AI is simply the “inventing new ones” part.
That’s a big problem with the extraordinary claim for me: “there isn’t wide agreement about what it is, but I feel very emotionally invested in this treat printer that tells me it loves me if it is prompted to say so, so of course there’s a waifu ghost in there and you can’t tell me otherwise, you lowly meat computers!”
Every time these people come out with accusations with “spiritualism”, it’s always projection.
They mock religious people while so many of them believe that there’s some unspecified “simulation” that was put into motion by some great all-powerful universe creator, too. Deism with extra steps. Similarly, their woo bullshit about how a robot god of the future will punish their current enemies long after they’re dead (using the power of dae le perfect simulations) and raise them from the dead into infinite isekai waifu harems (also by using the power of dae le perfect simulations) is totally not magical thinking and not a prophecy they’re waiting to have fulfilled.
By playing god, people keep reinventing god. It’s deeply ironic and reminds me of this interpretation of Marx, and critique of modernity, by Samir Amin:
The way many see AI is simply the “inventing new ones” part.
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Yessss this is refreshing to read. Secularists taking massive leaps of faith while being smug about how they aren’t.
I can’t say i understand those types.