Like, I’m sure a lot of it ends up just feeling like most jobs, but fuck…isn’t the whole point that they have unique insight into these things? Do they think God is “speaking through the chatbots” or something?
I genuinely think that there is nothing in any form of Christianity that really prevents that type of “adaptation”, or even adds much friction to its incorporation into doctrine. It’s one of the scarier things about Ai, especially when I see a guy like Peter Thiel getting interested in eschatological matters and religion in general.
Whatever one thinks about any ultimate truth a given religion holds, religion in general and Christianity in particular has been used to pacify, influence, and control masses since its inception. It’s arguably one of its original purposes.
So knowing that, and knowing how fundamentally malleable it is - and I mean fundamental; malleability is built in - I fear that God will increasingly speak through Ai.
On the one hand it is so straightforward it is pedestrian; tech bros are basically building a new Great and Powerful so they can be behind the curtain. But I do worry that it may be one of the more potent latent Ai threats.
Certainly I am here to tell you as someone raised in evangelical Christianity, the ‘vangies are primed for this, and that should scare us.
It’s these priests who are maybe accelerating this by their usage - an LLM can’t rape an alter boy, or not directly. If God is speaking through ChatGPT and they are just delivering the message, that increasingly seems like a messy and unnecessary middle man.
Like, I’m sure a lot of it ends up just feeling like most jobs, but fuck…isn’t the whole point that they have unique insight into these things? Do they think God is “speaking through the chatbots” or something?
Well, you see, the thing is, it’s all bullshit. Always has been.
I genuinely think that there is nothing in any form of Christianity that really prevents that type of “adaptation”, or even adds much friction to its incorporation into doctrine. It’s one of the scarier things about Ai, especially when I see a guy like Peter Thiel getting interested in eschatological matters and religion in general.
Whatever one thinks about any ultimate truth a given religion holds, religion in general and Christianity in particular has been used to pacify, influence, and control masses since its inception. It’s arguably one of its original purposes.
So knowing that, and knowing how fundamentally malleable it is - and I mean fundamental; malleability is built in - I fear that God will increasingly speak through Ai.
On the one hand it is so straightforward it is pedestrian; tech bros are basically building a new Great and Powerful so they can be behind the curtain. But I do worry that it may be one of the more potent latent Ai threats.
Certainly I am here to tell you as someone raised in evangelical Christianity, the ‘vangies are primed for this, and that should scare us.
It’s these priests who are maybe accelerating this by their usage - an LLM can’t rape an alter boy, or not directly. If God is speaking through ChatGPT and they are just delivering the message, that increasingly seems like a messy and unnecessary middle man.