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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 28, 2022

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Christianity is a religion about AI alignment. Not as an analogy or metaphor, it just literally is. We're the AIs, Jesus died to redeem us (ie allow us to return to alignment with God) and someday there will be a Judgement where all the non-aligned AIs are cast into the fire while the aligned AIs will serve God forever.

Except that God remains much more powerful than us. AI alignment is all about aligning AIs that are going to take over.

Which should give people pause: God made AI's that were far less intelligent than himself, and still had to die a torturous death on a cross to align them (and not even all of them!). How much harder then to align an intelligence greater than yourself.

What's Lucifer then? He's not a fallen AI (that's us) ...

He's also an unaligned AI. Christianity holds that angels, including Lucifer, are intellegent and are creations of God, which makes them artificial intelligences (God being the only natural intelligence in existence).

I'd say the primary difference is that humans are AIs that run on meat hardware, and angels are AIs that seem to run without any material hardware at all.

Alright, I'm serious about this: change your name. This is the third time I've asked, and this time I'm banning you until you do. Imitating existing users is uncool regardless of who it is, and given that you can just change your nickname, I don't see much reason for us to tolerate it.

Send a message to the admins once you've done so and we'll unban you.

Thanks. This was getting very confusing.

As long as I can be a cyber-Catholic rather than a cyber-Protestant. I want to hear the liturgy in the original Python.

As my friend put it: "'AGI risk is like a religion' isn't an argument against AGI risk; it's an argument for religion."

"Which part of cyber-Belfast are you from?"

Is the original Python 2 or 3?

Mostly perl...

Better to reign in hell than to serve in Python 2