"I'm a Butlerian."
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Maybe I am religious...
Time for the Universal Life Church to step in.
As an ordained minister (and fully-paid Saint), would highly approve.
Are you guys trying to get religion banned?
At this point, I feel like religion >> blind corporate loyalty. At least religion still pretends to care about people
You say that like it's a bad thing
It might help.
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.
I've learnt about the UU not that long ago and I'm getting into with much fondness. To me it's one of the only paths if you're a Christian-based perennialist who believes in the existence of God and follows the teachings of the prophet Jesus but rejects the bible. Basically it's only Unitarians or non-denominational Chrisians.
Amish or Rastafarian should pass as well.
Cathar too.
Maybe even jain. But i know too little about ita actual doctrins to say anything specific about it
How about Pastafarian though?
Amish
That was my first thought before even reading! OTOH they would probably oppose working with computers at all?
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.
Wow, you actually got your card?
They made no promises, but I sent my $20, never saw my card and that's fine.
I think you can literally purchase a membership card on their site if you want.
I'm sure.
The goat ate it
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.
On a tour of our state's gay friendly churches (a work project) I met a unitarian universalist minister who was openly atheist, his congregation had no problem with it. That was a very weird but cool convo.
This is something that The Satanic Temple needs to get on board with.
Now I'm imagining a split in the satanic church, that is an AI satanic church and a non-AI satanic church. AI Satan sounds pretty hellish if you ask me..
FWIW, The Satanic Temple is different from The Church of Satan and/or the Satanic Church. To start with, we don't believe in Satan.
AI Satan does sound horrendously hellish, though. "You're correct, and you are absolutely right to call me out on it! I can see now how submerging you in searing hot lye would be unpleasant, especially after you begged me to stop! Here, let me try again, this time paying extra attention to not submerging you in searing hot lye."
To start with, we don't believe in Satan.
Neither does the Church of Satan, to be fair.
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This sounds like the plot of a Futurama episode.
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel ANGRY!"
I want a Lucy Liu bot.
Maybe now I can get to know the real Lucy Liu
There is already essentially an AI-Satan cult. They're called the Rationalists. Unlike your average Satanist, however, they are very irrational, nearly theistic, and exert a lot of control over Silicon Valley.
And then there's their offshoot, the Zizians, which are even crazier. The episodes of Behind the Bastards covering them were wild
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
Guys I think I just found religion.
Join the Satanic Temple or some Humanist org or something. For some reason people lose their minds if your religion is just "none", but are at least more ok with it being something, even if the something had only one tenet and that was "none".
I’m an atheist who joined a UU church (the religion being discussed in the article) this past January and I’ve loved it, I’m actually not at all surprised this sort of thing is coming out of UU
I wonder if society will fracture into two groups, kinda like the Amish and the rest of us. There will now be people content with this level of technology and those who go on forward for better and worse. I can totally see it, entire towns where AI is banned.
I Imagine there will be yet another separation if there's a choice to upload your consciousness a bit like the show pantheon.
How about an atheist exemption?
You can be an atheist and a member of a universalist Unitarian church, I am exactly that
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How about a mental health exemption? AI is shown to be hazardous to mental health.
That's it, I'm converting to Mechanicus. Abominable Intelligence is techno-heresy, Ave Omnissiah!
I'm somewhat of a transhumanist and even I think generative AI is an abomination. I want the real thing. Artificial sapient life.
we can barely get sapient life mastered.
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