• cabbage@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    Every major innovation in information technology eventually leads to some new religion. Scrolls gave us the Torah, books gave us the Bible, the printing press gave us Protestantism. We’re about to figure out what god awful religion computers are going to give us.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, I’d be surprised if we don’t already have several cults with an LLM chat bot as it’s oracle.

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        That is why I hope no one manages to assassinate him, that would only intensify the movement

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      My anti-theist brother was always convinced that Pastafarianism would eventually be taken as a serious religion.

      He died before LLMs, and now I think we’d be best off if he was right.