God Is Dead So They Are Building a New One

As a reminder, here’s the proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop on Artificial Inelligence:

We propose that a 2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

We need to treat possibility as eventuality for preparedness sake: the ultra wealthy could in theory execute a coup against the rest of humanity. They could also retreat into bunkers with suitable farming capacity, while their silicon business operations continue on. The rest of us are out of work, and if the bureaucracy gets respected out of homes. If farmland gets bought up by the ultra wealthy, the plan could be to subvert climate change by allowing billions to die.

In the end, you’re going to foot the bill of aristocracy unless you rise up and demand a stake at the table or ensure the downfall of everything today.

Life is in fact a giant strategy game because it can be and because it is the governing dynamic at the highest level, so play or lose.

That is not optimism, that just sounds contradictory. The only thing that could stop that immortal superintelligence from use us as lubricating oil maintainers til end of the days will be to cross fingers, and that certainly sounds religious.

Perhaps could be avoided persuading such intelligence to respect an equality of rights between us, or similar. Therefore, forget about your cheap servant. Since then, to try til the end of the days to don't make doubt that intelligence about our intentions.

I do not expect the artificial intelligence in this century, given the current state, nevertheless the constant pursuing for to bring it to life will success at that time.

And this success will not be shown as human intelligence, it will be like if it were an alien intelligence, nevertheless such intelligence will find easy to understand us due our simplicity and that will be feed with all our patterns.

I have no interest in to be there when happens.

And I guess there is no stop, humanity is this stupid; even if it is prohibited will be someone experimenting for feeding egos.

How isn't that what we ought to do? We will have so much more time to be human in a world ran by AI.

A humanity free from bullshit is a humanity truly capable of anything.

Deus Ex (2000)

Is everyone here subscribed to this person's Substack? Are we discussing just the first part of the article?

Atheism is more sensible and that's saying something.

Edit: offended an AIist clearly.

The universe is mostly dead. What exists degrades in all kinds of ways. Science’s best theories of creation are driven by randomness. Yet, all the Big Bang’s and chaotic systems we make produce exactly zero design. All the systems we build take effort to fight against nature to even run, degrade over time, and break down. Empirically, that’s what we should expect of the universe’s machinery.

Then, we look at the universe to find it has dozens of laws and components that stay constant in form. They never fail. They’re more precise than anything humans can create. They work together in a precise way, too, with protocols that also never fail. Our human life on this planet depends on basically all of them. Empirically, they look like a designer of unimaginable knowledge and power both precisely designed them and maintains them. That’s God.

From there, we look at testimony since our knowledge is mostly built on that anyway. Many claim to have heard from God. One book, the Bible, came with specific prophecies that were fulfilled (eg Israel being recreated), medical knowledge, miracles that repeat everywhere it goes (one saved me), life transformations, and answered prayers. They start when we believe in Jesus who died for our sins and rose again with more historical testimony than about anyone else.

Most things need to be changed to market to their audience. The few beliefs that went global fed people’s egos (do the right works) or spread by the sword. The Gospel of Jesus Christ reached several thousand people groups in around 200 countries despite no changes in the message. It did this while saying we can’t save ourselves but only Christ can save us.

So, we have a universe that looks designed, only a revelation can lead us to the designer, Christ confirmed He is by conquering death, and His Word is the most proven with the widest impact on people. God is very alive and you can know Him personally if you repent and believe in Christ. You will live forever, too.