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get ready for ai religions: sam altman, transhumanism and the merge

October 4, 2024

source: beiner.substack.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Get Ready for AI Religions:

The drive to build a machine greater than we are is, at its heart, a yearning for the divine. In a world suffering from a meaning crisis, AI is poised to fill the God-shaped hole. A digital messiah created not by a deity, but by human ingenuity. For all its technological marvel, it is wreathed in religious mystery. AI models are now so advanced that their designers don’t know exactly how they work. Instead, we are asked to have faith that they do. Using large language models like ChatGPT already has a magical and otherworldly quality, not just because we are encountering an intelligence beyond our understanding, but because it appears to be speaking back to us.

Remember, everything is ideology

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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