Godbots – Uncommon Descent

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design

Eric Holloway: Friendly AI would kill us all

Our friendly godbot, Alfalfa and Omega would feel constrained to take such an action by the superior logic of its programming.

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design Religion

Silicon Valley invents a religion suited to the culture

The most important characteristic of an AI cult is that its gods (Godbots?) will be created by the AI developers and not the other way around

relatd Ba77, What we see here is the same thing I saw and heard in the 1960s. "You know what the... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 In the same thread, and per Querius responding to Ford Prefect's hand waving dismissal of the Shroud, let's not forget... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 As well, newly developed ‘non-destructive’ dating methods have now placed the age of the Shroud at the time of Christ... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 ChuckyD at 19, It might interest you to know that recently Ford Prefect, (in the Galton Board thread at post... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
relatd Seversky at 17, Your ignorance of Scripture and of God is showing. When the United States went to the Moon... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
relatd Seversky at 20, Using the Secret Vegas Better's Book, I've made a ton of money off the Predictable Seversky Posts... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes PM1 @ 201, 205 ~Pattee vs Deacon~ Pattee’s paper “Symbol Grounding Precedes Interpretation” states the obvious, at least according to... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Seversky You know, if BA77 got residuals for every time he repeated his regular posts he'd be worth a small fortune... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin BA77 Back on the Shroud of Turin again, aye? You need to get new material..... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 Einstein himself may not have personally believed in life after death, (nor in a personal God), but Special Relativity itself... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Seversky Relatd/16 You should start your posts with “If I was God” and take it from there. Just taking Christianity at... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry Denyse, If you are reading this and not aware, there is a new video series coming in two weeks on... – Physicists: Our universe might not be...
relatd Seversky at 6, You should start your posts with "If I was God" and take it from there. So, if... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Viola Lee I also agree with Spinoza if this quote by Einstein is accurate about Spinoza: "“I believe in Spinoza's God, who... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus PM1, no one here has argued that blind physical forces account for FSCO/I rich systems, notice, design inference. If Chalmers... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Can you identify a single aspect of Ted, which is involved in Ted’s moral decision-making, that is not... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
PyrrhoManiac1 @203 Can you provide a quote of Pattee arguing that symbol-grounding precedes interpretation? I was relying on the abstract to... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 @5 I also believe in God, but my conception of what that means is different still. I believe in something... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Self referentiality gets you every time you appeal to grand delusion and project it to the other. – John Lennox on debating Richard Dawkins
kairosfocus As lame as it gets in answer to evident fine tuning. We are winning on the merits. – Physicists: Our universe might not be...