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For pity's sake people, the essay has nothing to do with traditional religions and their deities except an analogy about clergy. It's about how to interface w

• fuzzfactor 1mo ago
  Either way if the "almighty" was as good as some people suppose it to be you wouldn't need anyone serving as priest of any kind.
  • red-iron-pine 1mo ago
    e.g. there is no debate really about gravity. maybe it's deep unified theory of reality, but no one questions if you jump out of a window in Saudi, or Australia, or Brazil that you'll fall. when it is that omnipresent and understood its not a good its a force of nature; your priest would be closer to a professor
• krapp 1mo ago
  Traditional religion is the lens through which people would view a "hypothetical AGI / ASI with god-like abilities," (assuming for the sake of argument that such a thing is even possible) and most of the essay is talking about the author's traditional religious upbringing. The author literally equates speaking with AI like being blessed to speak with Jesus. The concepts of singularity and "AGI/ASI" as they exist in the West and have for decades have always been inextricably linked to an Abrahamic/Christian worldview. Having your mind "uploaded" to a "virtual heaven" is just the rapture for nerds. Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's wager but with Skynet. The AI God that simulates and punishes nonbelievers for eternity is straight from the Christian mold.