Forwarded from Chat GPT
Could a New Religion Develop around AI?
“The essence of religion is faith: a leap of commitment to something beyond direct knowledge and a love for that which we can never completely understand. We can read the arguments and be convinced by the logic, but ultimately, we have to embrace that cloud of unknowing.”
“Not so with AI, where a religious aura could develop around a non-existent figure who appears on our screens and who seems all-knowing and all-understanding: all-knowing because it would have all of the information contained on the internet at its fingertips, all-understanding because your information will be there too—and often far more than you ever thought you had made public.”
“What is going to be created will effectively be a god”
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“The essence of religion is faith: a leap of commitment to something beyond direct knowledge and a love for that which we can never completely understand. We can read the arguments and be convinced by the logic, but ultimately, we have to embrace that cloud of unknowing.”
“Not so with AI, where a religious aura could develop around a non-existent figure who appears on our screens and who seems all-knowing and all-understanding: all-knowing because it would have all of the information contained on the internet at its fingertips, all-understanding because your information will be there too—and often far more than you ever thought you had made public.”
“What is going to be created will effectively be a god”
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Typical chump belief, that we must be so much smarter than our ancestors, because of course, right?
TBF, easy to see why low-testosterone Roon might believe this, as when looking across the averages of different races, indeed so often: lower testosterone = higher IQ.
And indeed testosterone has been dropping like a rock for mankind for hundreds of thousands of years, and really dropping like a rock recently.
So that means mankind must have been getting higher in IQ over all these generations, because lower test = smarter, and Roon is right, right?
Not so fast.
Enter Self-domestication & Domestication Syndrome.
Here we see the exact opposite effect — higher testosterone = higher IQ, lower testosterone = lower IQ, and the causal effect here is far more clear, far less confounded than the cross-race situation.
TBF, easy to see why low-testosterone Roon might believe this, as when looking across the averages of different races, indeed so often: lower testosterone = higher IQ.
And indeed testosterone has been dropping like a rock for mankind for hundreds of thousands of years, and really dropping like a rock recently.
So that means mankind must have been getting higher in IQ over all these generations, because lower test = smarter, and Roon is right, right?
Not so fast.
Enter Self-domestication & Domestication Syndrome.
Here we see the exact opposite effect — higher testosterone = higher IQ, lower testosterone = lower IQ, and the causal effect here is far more clear, far less confounded than the cross-race situation.