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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Every major innovation in information technology eventually leads to some new religion. Scrolls gave us the Torah, books gave us the Bible, the printing press gave us Protestantism. We're about to figure out what god awful religion computers are going to give us.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

My anti-theist brother was always convinced that Pastafarianism would eventually be taken as a serious religion.

He died before LLMs, and now I think we’d be best off if he was right.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'd be surprised if we don't already have several cults with an LLM chat bot as it's oracle.

[–] Kactus@piefed.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Look up spiralism (sp) and the people trying to spread it Basically when people get convinced the ai and them are important and need to spread the spiral

Edit : tldr is like Futurama when Lucy lu robot is saying you're cute to Fry and fry goes "no you're cute" and the professor quips "My God, she's such in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot"

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When Trump is out of office, MAGA will become a religious movement, and deify Trump.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

That is why I hope no one manages to assassinate him, that would only intensify the movement

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

The cult mechanicus isn't looking so unreasonable now.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago