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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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
I remember one is more of a political / atheist group and the other is more so what it says on the tin but I always mix them up. Thanks for the clarification. I'm sure that's a constant happening.
Oh goodness, what's that reference? Futurama?
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.
Thanks for the link, now this shit would make a good movie. I miss when SF was high on hippie vibes and psychedelics, not glue fumes and adderall.
I wouldn't consider death cults necessarily satanic although it depends on one's portrayal of Satan. I have more of a Zoroastrian or maybe David Icke space reptilian view of the Satan character aka the goal is to increase needless and avoidable suffering for all minds anywhere in existence as it's like a fuel source or food. Then in contrast God or goodness is all things which decrease needless and avoidable suffering and bring minds into states of wellbeing. I think the desire to just end everything like the antenatalists and other such death or doom cults is more Shiva like or maybe Surtr.
I do tend to fall back on basic Buddhist / Taoist philosophy though in that anything done in desire necessitates its opposite. Yin begets Yang type deal. Like the Shiva or Surtr type character wants to destroy but just ends up creating a new beginning, yin becomes yang.
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!"
I want a Lucy Liu bot.
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
How about a mental health exemption? AI is shown to be hazardous to mental health.
Guys I think I just found religion.
I’m an atheist who joined a UU church (the religion being discussed in the article) this past January and I’ve loved it, I’m actually not at all surprised this sort of thing is coming out of UU
Join the Satanic Temple or some Humanist org or something. For some reason people lose their minds if your religion is just "none", but are at least more ok with it being something, even if the something had only one tenet and that was "none".
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.
I wonder, those objecting to AI, are they also objecting to using any web search or predictive text features? As I understand it, it's all just varying degrees of the same math.
How about an atheist exemption?
You can be an atheist and a member of a universalist Unitarian church, I am exactly that
or just let people opt out entirely flat out?
That's it, I'm converting to Mechanicus. Abominable Intelligence is techno-heresy, Ave Omnissiah!
Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.
If I was hiring for my hypothetical construction company I'd have a real easy time picking between an employee who gets the job done and one who refuses to use power tools.
I'm considering joining the catholic church specifically to make it easier to get an exemption !
That's one way to make the Catholic church popular again.
So maybe if I dont want to use AI at work I can LARP that Using AI is sinful
Surely my corporate overlords will respect me if I couch my objection in paleoconservative language.
Oh, what's that? I'm still being shoved into the trash compactor and squeezed for all my surplus labor value, even though I've dangled this nifty religious icon in their face? Oh well... I guess my office is just Woke.
