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I can picture a PKD novel about God being a subscription based AI, perhaps "salvation" requires monthly "tithing" or else you get cut off from everlasting life
by wormius 3y ago
I can picture a PKD novel about God being a subscription based AI, perhaps "salvation" requires monthly "tithing" or else you get cut off from everlasting life (or the real grease under the hood : social connections/power). Perhaps you could subscribe to various differing AI gods... hedge your bets as it were through a costly polytheism. Perhaps the social power by those who donate the most... Almost like a Scientology type religion, where those who buy in get more compute power to enact their goals.
Apologies for the derail.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoI mean, this is how gods work in mythology and fantasy, isn't it? "Ritual sacrifice" is an ancient way of spelling "recurring subscription payment".