Technology

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.

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.

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

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

With all of this ‘hasten the coming of Christ’ talk it sounds like they’re planning on catching and trapping him.

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.

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

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Lol the first LLM with included cognitive dissonance and self-loathing

mission to build a Christian AI

But AI is already fucking stupid?

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.

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.

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

~~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

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

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.

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

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

*Ya know, i was god once...

Yes, i saw. You were doing well until everyone died.*

Stop asking "what would Jesus do?", use Jesus API.

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.

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.

If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.

So... a bigoted AI?

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?

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

“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.

jfc lmao

Actually this is a pretty impressive grift. I don’t think anyone has tried this before.

lol

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

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

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

Tech billionaires will totally destroy us all.