"I'm a Butlerian."
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Maybe I am religious...
This is something that The Satanic Temple needs to get on board with.
Now I'm imagining a split in the satanic church, that is an AI satanic church and a non-AI satanic church. AI Satan sounds pretty hellish if you ask me..
FWIW, The Satanic Temple is different from The Church of Satan and/or the Satanic Church. To start with, we don't believe in Satan.
AI Satan does sound horrendously hellish, though. "You're correct, and you are absolutely right to call me out on it! I can see now how submerging you in searing hot lye would be unpleasant, especially after you begged me to stop! Here, let me try again, this time paying extra attention to not submerging you in searing hot lye."
To start with, we don't believe in Satan.
Neither does the Church of Satan, to be fair.
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This sounds like the plot of a Futurama episode.
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel ANGRY!"
There is already essentially an AI-Satan cult. They're called the Rationalists. Unlike your average Satanist, however, they are very irrational, nearly theistic, and exert a lot of control over Silicon Valley.
And then there's their offshoot, the Zizians, which are even crazier. The episodes of Behind the Bastards covering them were wild
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tl;dr:
Maus is a Unitarian Universalist, a pluralistic religion that's rooted in the inherent worth of every person. In April, she argued that AI didn't align with her religious beliefs, citing environmental and ethical concerns.
Just so you know which religion to convert to.
Oh, good. One of the few religions that isn't predicated on making all non-members lives miserable.
I've learnt about the UU not that long ago and I'm getting into with much fondness. To me it's one of the only paths if you're a Christian-based perennialist who believes in the existence of God and follows the teachings of the prophet Jesus but rejects the bible. Basically it's only Unitarians or non-denominational Chrisians.
I mean, hypothetically couldn't you just pick any belief structure outside of the top ten and make shit up? I'm a card carrying member of The Satanic Temple (which also puts an emphasis on human worth and social conscience) and I feel like I could swing this.
Wow, you actually got your card?
They made no promises, but I sent my $20, never saw my card and that's fine.
The goat ate it
I think you can literally purchase a membership card on their site if you want.
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Amish or Rastafarian should pass as well.
Amish
That was my first thought before even reading! OTOH they would probably oppose working with computers at all?
As someone who lives near an Amish community, the amount of them I see in Walmart on cellphones tells me they've got at least enough loopholes to be shopping in Walmart with a cellphone, so "working with computers" is probably perfectly fine.
...or you go straight to hell. IDK.
What's Amish Hell like?🤔
How about Pastafarian though?
Cathar too.
Maybe even jain. But i know too little about ita actual doctrins to say anything specific about it
I've known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it's also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I'm getting old) and other social justice stuff.
My UU ordained friend is a nonbinary activist who was in Minneapolis during the ICE shit.
The first time I went to a UU service, I was invited to a rationalist group that meets there.
It’s all of the good things about religion (ie - community. People who will meal train for you when you are in trouble, people who will teach your kids good shit) without much of the baggage.
I’m personally going to start attending either a UU or a really loosely Methodist group just for the social aspect. I think one of the failures of atheism is the lack of acknowledgment of the benefits of community and ritual. There’s not enough “third places” in the world, and churches can fill that roll quite well. Perhaps this is just my own recent near death experience speaking, but it’s good to have a community that cares about you.
On a tour of our state's gay friendly churches (a work project) I met a unitarian universalist minister who was openly atheist, his congregation had no problem with it. That was a very weird but cool convo.
Time for the Universal Life Church to step in.
As an ordained minister (and fully-paid Saint), would highly approve.
Are you guys trying to get religion banned?
At this point, I feel like religion >> blind corporate loyalty. At least religion still pretends to care about people
You say that like it's a bad thing
It might help.
I wonder if society will fracture into two groups, kinda like the Amish and the rest of us. There will now be people content with this level of technology and those who go on forward for better and worse. I can totally see it, entire towns where AI is banned.
I Imagine there will be yet another separation if there's a choice to upload your consciousness a bit like the show pantheon.
How about an atheist exemption?
Would be nice if philosophical stances were treated equal to religious ones, so if something is against your philosophical stances you could get the same exemption a religious person could.
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How about a mental health exemption? AI is shown to be hazardous to mental health.
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