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The image of the beast will be AI.

• more_corn 4y ago
  I could have sworn you said “best”. One of the images sci-fi authors hold of AI is an intelligence you can direct to be fair. “Design a housing policy so it’s fair to the highest number of people” Humans might claim we want fairness but our policies inevitably favor the people who make the policy. AI as an ostensibly objective party might be able to be more fair. Of course we probably won’t like it because when presented with objectively fair policies we’ll wonder why we can’t have policies that unfairly favor our group anymore. For example a fair housing policy will probably favor people who don’t have a lot of power. Think for a moment about who that is and you’ll prove my point.
• thedorkknight 4y ago
  The "Beast" was Nero. Like that was actually his nickname. It adds up to 666 in gematria, which John of Patmos was using. The image of the beast was literally his image on Roman coins, which was the only legal currency, so they needed it to buy and sell. Also, branding of slaves was sometimes done on their hands. This is the imagery that John of Patmos was pulling from, not visions of microchips, barcodes, vaccines, or AI. He was under Roman oppression and all the imagery used in Revelation is directly relevant to it's writer's own context - no need to editorialize and fear monger
  • tgv 4y ago
    Of course, the parent comment might mean it literally, but you can also read it metaphorically.
• yrgulation 4y ago
  Gotta fix all them bugs first.