Is God willing to save us from our technodegenerate Sodom and Gomorrah?
Not if you're a non-believer.
God save the faithful. Seems like a fair deal to me.
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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I think humans are just hard-wired to interpret language and conversation as signs of intelligence. The way LLMs actually behave is counterintuitive in a way that violates most people's expectations. You can have a complex, rational conversation with it. Give it commands and have it appear to infer details and anticipate the future. Also, "AI" has been a part of pop culture and pop science for decades... people have…
>Of course we can trust them to drive our cars, we just can't trust humans. ...And just where do you think those computers came from, sparky? Back to square one. If you can't trust the humans in the chain, trusting the system as a whole is the act of a fool. You've abandoned rationality, and comfortably ensconced yourself in the plush comfort of irrationality and ignorance, setting yourself up to get rolled by the re…
I think you misinterpreted the nature of my comment and my actual point of view. My fault for forgetting Hacker News is where any attempt at nuance in language goes to die.
Re: Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making
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I have to politely contest the conflation of faith and trust. While I understand that they're used synonymously in a colloquial context, you don't place faith in algorithms, you place trust in them. You KNOW that the algorithm exists, you just don't necessarily know what decisions it'll make or how. Whereas, when you place faith in something, you aren't certain that it even exists or that it'll do anything. And so it…
> when you place faith in something, you aren't certain that it even exists or that it'll do anything. I have to politely disagree with this statement. To place faith in something means that you believe it to be true regardless of evidence. If you aren't certain, it is not faith but guesswork.
> If you aren't certain, it is not faith but guesswork.
Well, I've had theist friends who'd disagree with that, who've said, paraphrased, that "if your faith has no doubt, then it's not faith, it's a dogma." I can't speak to this myself, but I do find their choice to believe despite their doubt more honourable than someone's blind certainty.