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THIS "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire

by toss1 3y ago

reducesuffering 3y ago
We aren’t far from people believing God is talking to them through AI generated text and voice, and commanding them…
- AussieWog93 3y ago
  There was a guy a couple of years back whose AI girlfriend went off the rails and convinced him to try and assassinate Queen Elizabeth
- robotnikman 3y ago
  And another example to add to the other user, the one guy who killed himself when the AI he was talking to encouraged it. https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-after-an-ai-chatbot-encouraged-him-to-sacrifice-himself-to-stop-climate- https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-a...
- phs318u 3y ago
  https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus Despite the unending stream of users trying to trip-up "Jesus", I find the AI's answers strangely comforting and I invariably leave with a smile on my face. It's ability to see through the attempts at jokes to outsmart the AI, and (mostly) seamlessly segue into a fitting homily is pretty cool. It also has a strongly "liberal" slant compared to the vast bulk of "Christianity" that's promulgated in the US. Would love to know what corpus beyond just the religious texts it was trained on. Fascinating.
- pnathan 3y ago
  There was a HN commentator who believed that. In his case, the output of a RNG. Poor guy was brilliant. Wrote a whole OS around his idea. He had a tragic life.
  - bick_nyers 3y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
  - mustacheemperor 3y ago
    Terry Davis was systematically bullied to death by a dedicated mob online. Some extraordinarily cruel people realized they could manipulate him into going further off the deep end, and thought it was just an absolute blast to do so. RIP Terry - you suffered much more than you deserved.
polishdude20 3y ago
What about the same but in a different light: "Those that are most likely to commit atrocities are those that are most likely to believe in absurdities."
- lmm 3y ago
  Isn't that putting the causation backwards? The point is that believing absurdities leads to committing atrocities, not that committing atrocities leads to believing absurdities.
  - all2 3y ago
    I think the implication of this reverse phrasing is that the mental condition of some allows them to commit atrocities and perhaps justify them in whatever way they need to. Sometimes people fake it til they buy their own lie.
- darkmarmot 3y ago
  Religion is a helluva drug.

THIS "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire

by toss1 3y ago

THIS "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire

reducesuffering 3y ago

We aren’t far from people believing God is talking to them through AI generated text and voice, and commanding them…

AussieWog93 3y ago
There was a guy a couple of years back whose AI girlfriend went off the rails and convinced him to try and assassinate Queen Elizabeth
robotnikman 3y ago
And another example to add to the other user, the one guy who killed himself when the AI he was talking to encouraged it. https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-after-an-ai-chatbot-encouraged-him-to-sacrifice-himself-to-stop-climate- https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-a...
phs318u 3y ago
https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus https://www.twitch.tv/ask_jesus Despite the unending stream of users trying to trip-up "Jesus", I find the AI's answers strangely comforting and I invariably leave with a smile on my face. It's ability to see through the attempts at jokes to outsmart the AI, and (mostly) seamlessly segue into a fitting homily is pretty cool. It also has a strongly "liberal" slant compared to the vast bulk of "Christianity" that's promulgated in the US. Would love to know what corpus beyond just the religious texts it was trained on. Fascinating.
pnathan 3y ago
There was a HN commentator who believed that. In his case, the output of a RNG. Poor guy was brilliant. Wrote a whole OS around his idea. He had a tragic life.
- bick_nyers 3y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
- mustacheemperor 3y ago
  Terry Davis was systematically bullied to death by a dedicated mob online. Some extraordinarily cruel people realized they could manipulate him into going further off the deep end, and thought it was just an absolute blast to do so. RIP Terry - you suffered much more than you deserved.

polishdude20 3y ago

What about the same but in a different light: "Those that are most likely to commit atrocities are those that are most likely to believe in absurdities."

lmm 3y ago
Isn't that putting the causation backwards? The point is that believing absurdities leads to committing atrocities, not that committing atrocities leads to believing absurdities.
- all2 3y ago
  I think the implication of this reverse phrasing is that the mental condition of some allows them to commit atrocities and perhaps justify them in whatever way they need to. Sometimes people fake it til they buy their own lie.
darkmarmot 3y ago
Religion is a helluva drug.