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Man, that has been a dream since I was a kid: to see humanity create better gods. It would be really cool to see these machine gods evolve over time too, and sc

Man, that has been a dream since I was a kid: to see humanity create better gods. It would be really cool to see these machine gods evolve over time too, and scripture and morality along with them. A version controlled religion for future historians (AI, humans, or otherwise) to study!

andy_ppp 3y ago
I’m not sure the gods human being have made so far have done anything apart from persuade people to kill each other over scratchy bits of land. Whether feeling-less AGI will be better for us primates is very uncertain!
- solardev 3y ago
  We don't know what will happen with AGI, but we can pretty easily guess what will happen without it. I'd take that risk any day!
  - andy_ppp 3y ago
    You can easily guess, the issue is with being correct...
    - solardev 3y ago
      We all hallucinate a little now and then...
- Zardoz89 3y ago
  George Boole would disagree
  - andy_ppp 3y ago
    False!
Drakim 3y ago
CyberLuther forks catholic_adonai_v7 because he is not happy with how they upcharge the operational costs.
- solardev 3y ago
  Yes! This idea of a uniform hive mind always struck me as simplistic. I want gods that keep learning, keep experimenting, keep evolving, keep philosophizing. All these forks and branches might eventually become different settlements, solar systems, multiverses... it's all information, and each world an experiment unto itself. Morality can't be stuck in the pre-industrial era, and our current religions aren't really well suited for questions of matter and energy, consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, scaling thought past biological bottlenecks, etc. I'm really excited about this future, even (or especially) if it means the end of human dominance. Life will find a way :D
dageshi 3y ago
If I understand the prophetic visions of Warhammer 40k correctly, what you forsee shall be known as the Dark age of Technology, its study shall be banned as heresy and only by the grace of the God Emperor of Mankind will humanity survive it.
arethuza 3y ago
Well we do have almost technological gods in fiction in the Culture series: "I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side." Ending up with something even remotely like a Culture Mind would be pretty awesome to me... #FullyAutomatedLuxuryGaySpaceCommunism

andy_ppp 3y ago

I’m not sure the gods human being have made so far have done anything apart from persuade people to kill each other over scratchy bits of land. Whether feeling-less AGI will be better for us primates is very uncertain!

solardev 3y ago
We don't know what will happen with AGI, but we can pretty easily guess what will happen without it. I'd take that risk any day!
- andy_ppp 3y ago
  You can easily guess, the issue is with being correct...
  - solardev 3y ago
    We all hallucinate a little now and then...
Zardoz89 3y ago
George Boole would disagree
- andy_ppp 3y ago
  False!

Drakim 3y ago

CyberLuther forks catholic_adonai_v7 because he is not happy with how they upcharge the operational costs.

solardev 3y ago
Yes! This idea of a uniform hive mind always struck me as simplistic. I want gods that keep learning, keep experimenting, keep evolving, keep philosophizing. All these forks and branches might eventually become different settlements, solar systems, multiverses... it's all information, and each world an experiment unto itself. Morality can't be stuck in the pre-industrial era, and our current religions aren't really well suited for questions of matter and energy, consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, scaling thought past biological bottlenecks, etc. I'm really excited about this future, even (or especially) if it means the end of human dominance. Life will find a way :D

dageshi 3y ago

If I understand the prophetic visions of Warhammer 40k correctly, what you forsee shall be known as the Dark age of Technology, its study shall be banned as heresy and only by the grace of the God Emperor of Mankind will humanity survive it.

arethuza 3y ago

Well we do have almost technological gods in fiction in the Culture series: "I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side." Ending up with something even remotely like a Culture Mind would be pretty awesome to me... #FullyAutomatedLuxuryGaySpaceCommunism