Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- Matthew 7:6
Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf
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Re: Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf
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> Respectfully, if AI is the golden calf, then so were the printing press Stupid analogy after stupid analogy. The printing press merely let us mass-transmit ideas on paper. The whole point of AI is to be able to imitate the human mind, through a neutral network created via software and data training. I have no problem sitting by while fools use AI to create inherently doomed works of art and prose.
Just wrong, perception is the real issue here. The golden calf was not dangerous because it was a statue; it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function. That fate is not unique to AI—people have deified power, money, even their own self-importance. AI is simply the newest mirror reflecting our collective narcissism.
> it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function
People assigned it capability beyond its ability. That's the entire problem with AI. It is not intelligence. It merely mimicks it. What atheists call human intelligence is actually an ability we have because we're God's images. Making something in our own image and calling it a god is deeply biblical and culminates in Revelation 13:15.
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> Who's delusional? Every atheist on here, but more particularly, the elitist tech communities that think science is all there is to reality, when life experience abundantly proves otherwise from every direction.
My friend, questioning others' beliefs while asserting that you have the true answers is childish at best. You need to go on the revival circuit, I hear there's a lot of money to be made there.
> questioning others' beliefs while asserting that you have the true answers is childish at best.
Then it's childish for you to tell a flat earther they're mistaken. The objective, historical facts are on the side of Catholicism, whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.
Re: Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just wrong, perception is the real issue here. The golden calf was not dangerous because it was a statue; it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function. That fate is not unique to AI—people have deified power, money, even their own self-importance. AI is simply the newest mirror reflecting our collective narcissism.
> it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function People assigned it capability beyond its ability . That's the entire problem with AI. It is not intelligence. It merely mimicks it. What atheists call human intelligence is actually an ability we have because we're God's images. Making something in our own image and calling it a god is deeply biblical and culminates in Revelation 13:15.
> Revelation 13:15.
Revelation 13:15 is about deception, not innovation. The passage is about a false prophet breathing life into an image to deceive the world. AI isn't deceiving anyone—it's an advanced autocomplete machine. The only ones fooled are those who choose to believe it’s something more than that.
If AI is the golden calf, then so is every other human-made creation that people have ever revered. The argument doesn't hold because it isn't about AI—it's about human nature.
Re: Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf
#15I don't know why you mention Catholicism. It was the Hebrews following Moses out of Egypt who made the Golden Calf. That happened over a thousand years before Jesus and a little less than 2,000 years before anything you can call "Catholicism" existed.
The Pope has urged caution regarding AI, though I question his authority and understanding.
Re: Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf
#16I don't think that calling people who don't share your belief system "delusional" is the way to get them to pay any attention to what you have to say.