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Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making

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Re: Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making

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Post by sebstefan »

Is it that kind of study where we also realize that thinking about God makes people click more often on ads and be less performant at using microsoft excel?

Which turns out to just be a consequence of "people who are religious are more often old fucks"?

Re: Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making

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Post by getoffmyyawn »

This makes intuitive sense to me (not that that means anything). Adherents to a traditional God Hypothesis would be predisposed to believe that humans need advice and guidance from a mysterious force beyond themselves and that such forces exist.

A recent related development I find interesting is the rise in apparent AI/LLM Apologetics. Nearly every discussion thread about LLMs I read lately includes numerous posters attributing abilities to these models which are far beyond anything documented or demonstrated.

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Post by romanichm12 »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #18

In the game Deus Ex (2000) you can find a secret room that contains an artificial intelligence you can talk to. The dialogue tries to make connections between religious deities and artificial intelligences. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1glq98/deus_ex2000_a... Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.…

We place faith in algorithms and data, much like faith in a higher power, but rarely stop to consider who writes these digital 'scriptures' and what their intentions might be. Are we blindly trusting new 'gods' crafted in server rooms, not realizing that they might be as fallible—or as manipulative—as the human hands that created them?

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Post by Kiboneu »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #18

In the game Deus Ex (2000) you can find a secret room that contains an artificial intelligence you can talk to. The dialogue tries to make connections between religious deities and artificial intelligences. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1glq98/deus_ex2000_a... Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.…

Right before the credits for the relevant ending, the screen reads:

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -- Voltaire

This game also introduced me to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, from an optional dialogue with a bartender in a hidden area in the hong kong game map.

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Post by harry8 »

irjustin wrote: post #26
scandox wrote: post #16

I no longer believe in...these types of experiments.

mmmmm why? seems like a bad thing to dismiss?

Replication crisis. Worth websearching and being aware of how bad it has been on just this kind of research.

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Post by sph »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #18

In the game Deus Ex (2000) you can find a secret room that contains an artificial intelligence you can talk to. The dialogue tries to make connections between religious deities and artificial intelligences. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1glq98/deus_ex2000_a... Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.…

https://youtu.be/pKN9trFSACI

Deus Ex was way ahead of its time, like a lot of cyberpunk media is.

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Post by iamflimflam1 »

irjustin wrote: post #26
scandox wrote: post #16

I no longer believe in...these types of experiments.

mmmmm why? seems like a bad thing to dismiss?

There seems to be a lot of issues around replication of these kinds of studies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology) - see the section on Replicability controversy
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