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On the psychology of Artificial Intelligence
Aziraphale:
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--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 06 Feb 2015, 14:13 ---This seemed like as good a place as any for this article...
Evangelists plan to convert atheist computers to Christianity
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Huh.
It'd be real easy to laugh and dismiss the article as kinda silly, but it actually does raise some interesting points. It's almost preemptive inclusiveness, especially the bit saying that an AI would have a soul the same way a human does. It's a fairly positive overall message, and the Ork approves.
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I'd agree with you if inclusiveness were the point, but the point to most religious "belonging," at least in practice, has more to do with policing and exclusion -- how one sets one's self apart from sectarian out-groups and society as a whole -- than with inclusion. Saying that machines have souls sounds good 'til you stop to consider that that's just the first step to letting them know they're destined for eternal damnation for any breach of orthodoxy. Hell, your average evangelical doesn't even consider Catholicism to be Christianity (for example -- you could also substitute "Jehova's Witnesses," "Mormonism," or a host of other Christian offshots), to say nothing of their routine delegitimization of everything else that isn't explicitly Christian.
Is it cold in here?:
If they're intelligent enough to qualify as human-equivalent, they will be curious enough to ask all the questions for which religions offer answers.
Carl-E:
They'll also have the processing power to effectively compare and contrast, and come to the conclusion that they don't really like any of 'em...
...and will promptly start their own exclusionary church.
But will they still consider us their creators? Will there be a St. Turing?
"Hail Ada, mother of code, pray for us!" :angel:
DSL:
"A Canticle for Pintsize."
Is it cold in here?:
Remember how awestruck May was to meet someone from the Ellicott-Chatham family?
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