The rise of AI cults and the false prophets of revelation

I was half expecting this article to start quoting from the Orange Catholic Bible. If this article is actually AI generated, the Frank Herbert irony would be off the charts.

I'm surprised to see a modern references to one of the OG memes. I miss the days when trolls where in it for pure shock value vs trying to seed social unrest.

"The myth is the prototypal, fundamental, integrative mind tool ... to integrate a variety of events in a temporal and causal framework.” Merlin Donals Origins of the Modern Mind

LLMs aid us by calling attention to the illusions of the initial conditions, so the general idea pun intended is to expose the impairment of all religion and myth (and words and symbols) by automating them. This article is a perfect demonstration, the prefrontal lighting cause by a finger of god version calling out the machine automating the words of them in prediction. Ouch.

"Nothing illustrates the transition from mythic to theoretic culture better than this agonizing process of demythologization, which is still going on, thousands of yearsafter it began. The switch from a predominantly narrative mode of thought to a predominantly analytic or theoretic mode apparently requires a wrenching cultural transformation" [ibid]

This is straight up AI generated spam.

We are not equipped to deal with this.

The question is how did we not see the cultish idea of anthropomorphizing machines that use words. Words are nothing. The "space" between words, as arbitrary as the words to begin with, are not meaningful in terms of actions. The images we take and automate in AI are arbitrary. There's nothing to automate in reality that doesn't require our action-syntax to participate in.

AI is a completely buffoonish mistake. It's a road to nowhere that words and symbols began and counting (binary) adds the illusion of thought to. How we did not solve words instead of lazily automating them is totally self-deceptive.

Tech's problem is it's trapped in the ancien regime of cog-sci: beliefs, intents, motivations, and not recognizing the words we use come beset by those initial misconceptions. We can't extract them in the arbitrariness, nor can we seem to grasp where belief, motivation, intent are seamlessly connected to hormones, the endocrine system, neurotransmitters. We don't understand yet where we take control from our biology. William James saw this, how did Hinton, McCullough not?