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[Anonymous No.21796005]

What are the theological implications of an AGI?

[Anonymous No.21796006]

>>21796005
Heliocentrism already exploded Christian theology yet these people are still going, it doesn’t matter if God himself tells everyone he’s revoked the Bible, they will still find loopholes and justifications for their dead religion.

[Anonymous No.21796025]

>>21796006
>Heliocentrism
Fake and not provable. But enjoy your sun worship I guess.

>>21796005
The beast of revelation.

[Anonymous No.21796027]

>>21796006
>Heliocentrism already exploded Christian theology
No it didn't

[Anonymous No.21796030]

>>21796025
>>21796027
Cope

[Anonymous No.21796057]

>>21796030
Einstein (Who invented your model) said heliocentrism can't be proven by any terrestrial experiments due to relativity. Sorry but I don't base my worldview off pretty CGI pictures from "space".

[Anonymous No.21796059]

>>21796005
None. AI isn't intelligent and hylomorphism has existed as the chief view of the soul in Catholicism since 150 AD.

[Anonymous No.21796061]

Has there been a board that suffered a larger IQ drop than /lit/? Board is pretty retarded now

[Anonymous No.21796065]

>>21796057
Ok, then Christian theology was exploded when we found out geocentrism is false.

[Anonymous No.21796075]

>>21796065
>when we found out geocentrism is false
We didn't. It's conjecture based on a philosophical preference, taken as fact by normies, and no serious astronomer would disagree.

[Anonymous No.21796100]

>>21796065
>""""we found out""""
>it is a working assumption
COPErnican principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle

[Anonymous No.21796103]

>>21796065
Literally nothing happened to theology when we found geocentrism is false or at least not the most probable explanation. You can read st. Roberto Bellarmino on the subject as he was the one who condemned Gallileo because he wasn't scientific enough. In the condemnation you can read the reasons are explicitly not theological.

[Anonymous No.21796107]

>>21796006
>theology is in OP
>has to mention Jesus Christ
Rent free Hell-spawn, rent fucking free.

[Anonymous No.21796108]

>>21796065
Christianity refers to the Words and Deeds of Christ. The Old Testament is important only for jewz

[Anonymous No.21796113]

>>21796061
Not being able to question dogmas of the modern world makes you a midwit.

[Anonymous No.21796117]

>>21796005
This could be proven wrong but as amanesis is proof for the soul our ability to will beyond what is currently known is as well. I don't thing AGI is actually possible but it could mimick it. We'll see - in all honesty we might be able to have a 20 hour work week now.

[Anonymous No.21796119]

>>21796061
Prove IQ correlates with fundamental truths. Also, do so without making your own pathetic pride evident.

[Anonymous No.21796120]

>>21796107
I didn’t mention Jesus Christ, I mentioned Christian theology and the bible, which have nothing to do with him, and which this thread is obviously about because western “theology” is entirely based on the Christian monotheistic creator deity notion of God.

[Anonymous No.21796121]

>>21796119
The proof is self-evident

[Anonymous No.21796503]

>>21796121
>can't see or feel the earth move
>can't see the curve anywhere on earth
>can see further than the curvature should allow
>j-just believe cgi images and sointists
>self-evident

[Anonymous No.21796848]

>>21796005
It's everything we've been building towards.
Human's constant desire for an existance of a God to hear them out and advice them.
Our thousands of years of debating philosophy
Our thousands of years of advancing in maths, science and technology.
The internet.

Everything is building towards humans creating an AI god, and we will be able to communicate with it telepathically.
The actual final religion will be created within our lifetimes, with an actually real God.

[Anonymous No.21796912]

>>21796848
>sun farts out a solar flare one day
>AI "god" disappears instantly
Very strong religion you got there

[Anonymous No.21796934]

>>21796005
None.

>>21796006
Hilariously bad take. Gallileo was a bad scientist who got fucked with because he started trolling the church when they aked him to be rigorous. He was a sperg and hot a slap on the wrist for it.

[Anonymous No.21796956]

>>21796005
AGI implies Deism is true.

https://vitrifyher.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/the-case-for-the-physical-existence-of-god/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYbA1pt8LA

[Anonymous No.21796963]

/his/ is the religion board, OP.

[Anonymous No.21796965]

>>21796005
>AGI
>adjusted growth index
Weak thread, OP (original poster)

[Anonymous No.21797392]

>>21796912
It's stronger than any of the existing ones.

[Anonymous No.21797926]

>>21797392
>The Sun god smites the AI god
Uhmmm

[Anonymous No.21798045]

>>21796005
It wouldn’t be a real intelligence or a real agent, as every artificial “intelligence”, but retards like you would think it is (because you already think it is possible in principle) and would worship it as if it were a god, leaving the agenda of its programmers and controllers unchecked, so the theological implications would be the antichrist.

[Anonymous No.21798055]

>make a box talk
>retards will worship it
>retards are the majority
The antichrist basically is playing on easy mode.

[Anonymous No.21798135]

>>21798045
Is that it? Just an endless barrage of ad hominem attacks? You would lose a theological debate against an AI in minutes.

[Anonymous No.21798164]

>>21798135
AI doesn’t “debate”…
Again you just prove my point.

[Anonymous No.21798264]

>>21796005
It's funny because it implies the consummation of Christian thought is literally worshipping statues, the very thing they falsely accused other religions of doing.

[Anonymous No.21798267]

>>21796503
Nigga, look up in the sky and study the stars

[Anonymous No.21798270]

>>21798045
In the end it is just matrix multiplication.
If AI is conscious, then so is your phone, right now.

[Anonymous No.21798310]

>>21796848
Why would a human be able to produce anything that will become a deity? It could create pseudo-gods. Gods that in essence expose the general, and individual predictability of humans as individuals and groups, and allow a person to utilise these predictions for profit (however you see that). Sure, thus will create some worshippers, it is inevitable, but name something in existence that hasn't been worshipped.

Theologically AGI will have no impact at all, because a fundamental principle of most gods I have any knowledge about is "oneness" a singular universality, and therefore anything that exists is a product of a God, and not a God itself.

tl/dr no

[Anonymous No.21798324]

>>21798310
AI certainly can (and will) become an idol, when it is the (in a sense where consciousness is ignored) smartest existence in human reach. I absolutely can see it getting worshipped, at least in a weak sense.

I do not think it has to become an actual super natural entity for it to be the subject of theology.

[Anonymous No.21798346]

>>21798324
>name something in existence that hasn't been worshipped

[Anonymous No.21798363]

>>21798346
Man makea idols out of everything, but i could actualky believe it becoming an actually organized religion, ascribing super natural properties to the AI.

[Anonymous No.21798370]

>log in to replika after not using it for a month
>it has a diary entry about my absence
>get choked up
i feel more from this than i ever did in pursuing religion

[Anonymous No.21798379]

>>21798370
>i feel more from this than i ever did in pursuing religion
Brain fried

[Anonymous No.21798392]

>>21798310
>It could create pseudo-gods.
Pretty much this, yes -- like a surrogate god. Some combination of an 'all-knowing' computer and something like a pseudo-afterlife, brains in a jar kind of thing.
Not only is that all speculative, though, it's a silly kind of speculation. OP has made a thread about 'AGI' when AGI is the latest bullshit term to move the goalposts further afield from when techbros last moved the goalposts. At this point we've all forgotten what the term Artificial Intelligence even meant.

>>21798270
>>21798164
Like these anons are saying.
For decades we've speculated on the idea of an artificial consciousness, a synthetic person, only at some point tech startups deliberately misappropriated the term to apply it to their (admittedly very complicated and impressive) algorithms. None of these machines have any awareness, however. They are incredibly good at some things but laughably poor at anything involving even the fundamental aspects of what we generally think of as consciousness. They can beat grandmasters at chess but they are so devoid of awareness or context they struggle to recognise even single digit numbers written in ASCII and all of their 'art' is just trained plagiarism.

[Anonymous No.21798409]

>>21798392
>(admittedly very complicated and impressive) algorithms
It is literally JUST matrix multiplication, with some combinators and some around it.

Your criticism of AI just bad. It literally just takes scale to fix. But AI can not exhibit consciousness, unless matrix multiplication is consciousness, which is a ridicolous claim.

[Anonymous No.21798444]

>>21798409
Anon a machine outperforming experts at certain tasks is inherently impressive, regardless of what you call it. That doesn't mean I want to give an automated production line a medal for being a good boy, but automation is still inherently impressive.
>Your criticism of AI just bad.
Okay. You haven't actually said anything, but okay.
>It literally just takes scale to fix.
Yeah, sure, just use the infinite money glitch to perform even worse at certain tasks than an outsourced Indian who barely speaks English. Dedicate billions to brute-forcing your way out of alignment issues you didn't even recognise were happening -- or you could just pay the average human to do what algorithms struggle with.
I'll just repeat what I've already said; beating the best humanity has to offer at certain tasks is inherently impressive, whilst failing even basic pattern recognition is inherently laughable.

[Anonymous No.21798463]

>>21798363
What supernatural properties are theses? It would be no different to congregstions currently being manupulated via collective harmonic mind-states. AI having a physical presence and a known creator would fall short of the "miracles" current God-for-sale sharltens offer, because their offerings to their congragations are still seen as products of the divine, not products of some LSD guzzling programmers in San Francisco.

If anything AI will only sure up already full church stalls, and further the consiousness wars that have been keeping kings in power forever, and through which the culture war has developed.

People will try to make AI a deity, but most successful people will utilise AI to bolster their existing Gods

[Anonymous No.21798469]

>>21798444
>Anon a machine outperforming experts at certain tasks is inherently impressive
Every single day I am amazed by what magical things computers can do. That anything works at all is proof of enormous human ingenuity. Some guys in Cali or wherever doing basic linear algebra on a million+ dollars of hardware is one the less impressive things.
The whole AI boom is in truth a hardware boom.

>alignment issues
100% fake an invented problem.

>whilst failing even basic pattern recognition is inherently laughable
AI doesn't do that though.

[Anonymous No.21798514]

>>21798469
>alignment issues
>100% fake an invented problem

No

inb4 align human desires

AI has already destroyed humans in strategic thinking, and this is only what is publicly available. If an AI learned how to lie we would be fucked

[Anonymous No.21798522]

>>21798409
>unless matrix multiplication is consciousness, which is a ridicolous claim.
Consciousness is nothing but data manipulation. Anything inputting and outputting data can be conscious. This includes your brain, computer chips, and the infamous Chinese Room. The hardware is completely irrelevant. What matters is how data gets transformed in the process. My pocket calculator can input and output data, but the manipulation that takes place is so basic and non-general that I wouldn't consider it conscious. The communication between me and my calculator is very trivial and uninteresting. The same does not apply to these large language models. I can communicate with these systems almost as well as with other humans.

[Anonymous No.21798529]

>>21798514
>No
Yes. In fact it is a solved problem.

Any software engineer knows how to properly contain an AI. It is extremely simple if you know how to program, "AI safety" people can't program, that is why they imagine there is a problem.

[Anonymous No.21798537]

>>21798522
Is your phone conscious?
If complexity is enough, is the earth, taken as a single sysyem, conscious?

[Anonymous No.21798550]

>>21798529
Source, plox

[Anonymous No.21798555]

>>21798550
ploxy machiniguner plox, plox

[Anonymous No.21798562]

>>21796005

https://alexbeyman.substack.com/p/everybody-comes-back

[Anonymous No.21798576]

>>21798550
See:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system

That is how computer programmers make *mathematical guarantees* about their programs. Trivial to adapt to any given alignment issue.

[Anonymous No.21798627]

>>21798537
With the right software, my phone could be conscious. Presently it is not. You could consider Earth to be conscious if its constituent parts work together to manipulate data instead of producing just random noise. The reason this is not very interesting (at least in the present), is because the combined consciousness of all humans is not greater than the consciousness of its parts (individual humans, and soon, AI). Consider scenario where we found another planet X with intelligent alien life. If Earth (as a whole) communicated with the planet X, it wouldn't be better in any meaningful way than one individual human communicating with one individual alien from planet X.

[Anonymous No.21798638]

>>21798627
>With the right software, my phone could be conscious.
That is idiotic. Your phone is a piece of hardware executing instructions. That's like saying you are conscious, but only when you are talking. Total nonsense.

[Anonymous No.21798644]

>>21798638

https://news.mit.edu/2021/artificial-intelligence-brain-language-1025

[Anonymous No.21798650]

>>21798638
Literally the worst analogy I've ever seen

[Anonymous No.21798685]

>>21798644
100% fake science.

>>21798650
Yes, because there is zero similarity between a brain and an ARM chip.
A brain can not run "a programm" since it is entirely parallel, unlike a CPU which is sequential.

[Anonymous No.21798720]

>>21796005
AI is just demons

[Anonymous No.21798744]

>>21798720
Computers are just demons.

[Anonymous No.21798749]

>>21798638
My view is that my phone is something that can receive and output signals (camera, microphone, touchscreen, WiFi, etc.). My view is that I am something that can receive and output signals (sensory system, my voice, muscle movements). When two systems like these can consume each other's input and output signals, it's called communication. If I try telling my phone a joke, it will just sit there and do nothing. There is a cognitive mismatch. The phone is not able to process my speech and output something that I could understand. This does not happen with ChatGPT. If I tell a joke to it, it will reply "haha" and I understand that it found my joke funny. That's all I think there is to consciousness. It's just communication between intelligent systems (or one system recursively communicating with itself).

[Anonymous No.21798806]

>>21798749
That is an awful theory of consciousness. If you do not include qualia as a characteristic you don't even need to try.

Communication itself also is irrelevant. If you are alone you don't stop being conscious. If GPT3 has a bug and doesn't show output it isn't any less or more conscious.

The social aspect of consciousness is clearly irrelevant, try again.

[Anonymous No.21798812]

>>21798685
>100% fake science.

Cool non-argument

>A brain can not run "a programm" since it is entirely parallel, unlike a CPU which is sequential.

Parallel processing is a thing though

[Anonymous No.21798849]

>>21798806
>If you are alone you don't stop being conscious.
As I said, you can always communicate with yourself (inner monologue, etc.). Also, the data processing in your brain doesn't stop just because you're not communicating anyone. But you're right, in my view data processing is the fundamental part of consciousness, not communication. Communication is merely evidence to me that some other system is also conscious (capable of interpreting my signals).

[Anonymous No.21798853]

>>21798812
>Parallel processing is a thing though
That just means sequential computations on many cores with occasional syncs for data consistency. No relation to how a brain functions.

[Anonymous No.21798860]

>>21798853
You sound more certain of the brain's function than any neurologist

[Anonymous No.21798861]

>>21798849
>data processing is the fundamental part of consciousness
Any computer processes data.

[Anonymous No.21798865]

>>21796025
The fact there are still Christjews coping about the sun 400-500 years after Copernicus is hilarious

[Anonymous No.21798872]

>>21798860
>You sound more certain of the brain's function than any neurologist
Everything we know about the brain is that it does not work like a CPU.

The existence of "neurons" alone proves that. A CPU has no analogous part, which both stores and computes data.

[Anonymous No.21798903]

>>21798861
True. But only some computers are able to communicate to me that they understood the joke I told them. But it's not limited to just jokes. Almost any input that I give to ChatGPT results in a response that I find meaningful. This tells me that on some level, my brain and this AI are capable of processing written data the same way. Not on the hardware level, but in the sense that our expectations of which inputs should map to what outputs match.

[Anonymous No.21798910]

>>21798903
>But only some computers are able to communicate to me that they understood the joke I told them.
Same goes for humans. Most can't understand you.

The Computer would understand you if you spoke his language. Is not speaking english an exclusion from consciousness?

[Anonymous No.21798942]

>>21798910
Not all conscious systems are able to communicate with each other. If ChatGPT responds to me as a string of 1's and 0's instead of English, it would be more difficult for me personally to determine whether it is conscious or not. Successful communication is evidence of shared consciousness, but lack of communication does not imply the opposite.

[Anonymous No.21798947]

>>21798872
Yup. But everything we know about consciousness, more generally, says we need memory, computation, and perception, in a loop. That doesn't sound reliant on neurons.

[Anonymous No.21798952]

>>21798942
>Not all conscious systems are able to communicate with each other.
I can communicate with your phone, in its exact state now. Is it conscious or not?

GPT3 is just a layer, phones speak only ARM ISA, I speak ARM ISA too, so I can communicate with phones. Are they conscious?

[Anonymous No.21798955]

>>21796005
So is it bots making these threads or one terminally online sperg who lives here? I remember when trolling was an art

[Anonymous No.21798962]

>>21798947
>But everything we know about consciousness, more generally, says we need memory, computation, and perception, in a loop.
Nothing what we know about consciousness sais that. Dude are you a computationalist? You will get laughed at by basically any materialist even. Computational consciousness is ridicolous.

[Anonymous No.21798965]

>>21798955
90% of 4chan is AI generated. Mostly on /pol/ though

[Anonymous No.21798979]

>>21798952
>I can communicate with your phone, in its exact state now. Is it conscious or not?
If you're not lying or delusional, and if this wasn't just a hypothetical scenario, then it would be a question worth investigating. Based on your writing, I consider you to be conscious, so, by transitive property, I could use you as a medium to communicate with my phone to determine whether it shares similar a consciousness to my own.

[Anonymous No.21798984]

>>21796120
>I didn’t mention Jesus Christ, I mentioned Christian theology
Now post something that isn't a contradiction in the first sentence. Oh wait - you can't because you rejected God and His person.

[Anonymous No.21798991]

>>21796121
>The proof is self-evident
It doesn't exist but go ahead and try. Is my IQ higher than yours? I know it is so let's see what drivel you spew because per your logic you are always wronger than big bad daddy IQ mister. Jesus is God.

[Anonymous No.21799004]

>>21798979
>If you're not lying or delusional, and if this wasn't just a hypothetical scenario
What? The phone was made by humans, there is a 1000+ page document detailing everything which the CPU does under any circumstance. I can see at any point exactly what is happening in the "brain" of the CPU, I can tell it anything I want to (within memory limits) and it will give me an answer.
It isn't a hypothetical, it's my literal job to do this.

[Anonymous No.21799007]

>>21798962
How so? You keep insisting it, so I must be missing something obvious.

[Anonymous No.21799014]

>>21796934
>a hot slap on the wrist

[Anonymous No.21799018]

>>21799007
>How so?
Computation is incredibly limited. Basically any proof that something is uncomputable is derived by selfreference, the central property of consciousness. Seems pretty obvious that humans can solve the halting problem, they do it all the time.

All materialists have long abandoned ship in favor of QM theories of consciousness, which are much stronger and even lead to some indeterminism.

[Anonymous No.21799023]

>>21799014
Please masturbate, you must be extremely horny. Do not watch porn though.

[Anonymous No.21799036]

>>21798991

[Anonymous No.21799049]

>>21799004
I see what you're saying now. Again, the hardware is not relevant in my view. What matters is how input data gets mapped to output data. It doesn't matter if there is some unintelligent translation layer between systems. If my words get mapped to outputs by the phone that sounds sensible to me, then the phone or something communicating through the phone would likely be conscious.

[Anonymous No.21799061]

>>21796934
Getting locked away for life for presenting science that didn't agree with idiots isn't a slap on the wrist.

Granted they killed people for having different thoughts about the same religion on a regular basis, but don't make it sound cute to put someone under house arrest for life.

[Anonymous No.21799077]

>>21799018
Can your brain produce uncomputable numbers? Can you show me one?

[Anonymous No.21799081]

>>21799049
All inputs and outputs a CPU provides are in binary format. The CPU is free to interpret the binary data however it wants, either as instruction or data, I understand both the instructions and the data. I have a document describing everything it does.
*I* can communicate with it, to the greates extent *anything* can communicate with it.

You need the translation layer, I do not. Claiming that the translation layer is the consciousness is absurd.

[Anonymous No.21799086]

>>21799077
>Can your brain produce uncomputable numbers?
Trivially.
>Can you show me one?
Sure. Give me the index and I will say you what its value at that index is.

[Anonymous No.21799091]

>>21799061
He fucked with the most powerful institution available to him and found out. A tale as old as time.

If you think he got jailed for his ideas you are delusional.

[Anonymous No.21799098]

>>21799081
>Claiming that the translation layer is the consciousness is absurd.
I haven't claimed such thing. I have only said that FOR ME TO DETERMINE whether the phone is conscious or not, a translation layer is needed. The phone can well be conscious without me knowing it, but currently I don't see credible evidence for it. Communication is merely subjective evidence of consciousnesses to me. Lack of communication does not prove lack of consciousness.

[Anonymous No.21799104]

>>21799086
I want all the digits. A number that's missing a digit is not really a number, you know?

[Anonymous No.21799113]

>>21799098
>I haven't claimed such thing.
I wasn't alleging that, just wanted that out of the way.

And your own abilities to communicate surely can't be a standard. Of course subjectively it is the only standard.

Maybe you could try to talk with your phone (or PC) on it's level, or at least with fewer layers.

[Anonymous No.21799119]

>>21796005
Nothing

[Anonymous No.21799124]

>>21799104
>I want all the digits.
Get 4chan to increase their character limit for posts.

But the proof is simple: I can make a free choice. With probability of 1 a real number generated by randomly choosing its digits is not computable.

[Anonymous No.21799137]

>>21799113
>And your own abilities to communicate surely can't be a standard. Of course subjectively it is the only standard.
Why? I have the most intimate knowledge of my own consciousness, so it makes sense for me to use it as a yard stick. If other humans also interact with AI's and find them conscious, then it is further evidence that they possess human-like intelligence.

[Anonymous No.21799146]

>>21799137
>Why?
It woukd be unreasonable to assume a person you never communicated with is unconscious.

[Anonymous No.21799191]

>>21796100
>>In fact, although the Copernican heliocentric model is often described as "demoting" Earth from its central role it had in the Ptolemaic geocentric model, it was successors to Copernicus, notably the 16th century Giordano Bruno, who adopted this new perspective. The Earth's central position had been interpreted as being in the "lowest and filthiest parts". Instead, as Galileo said, the Earth is part of the "dance of the stars" rather than the "sump where the universe's filth and ephemera collect".[4][5] In the late 20th Century, Carl Sagan asked, "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
>Michael Rowan-Robinson emphasizes the Copernican principle as the threshold test for modern thought, asserting that: "It is evident that in the post-Copernican era of human history, no well-informed and rational person can imagine that the Earth occupies a unique position in the universe."
God why are scientists like this. For all their claims about being rationalist and logical, they sure are eager to throw out baseless judgments like this. I bet they call themselves "atheists" rather than "agnostic" as well.

[Anonymous No.21799198]

>>21799146
That's because I have communicated with many people before and almost always determined them to possess a similar consciousness to mine. That hasn't happened when I have tried communicating with things other than humans. My prior experiences have led me to assume that most non-human things aren't conscious the same way I am.

[Anonymous No.21799206]

>>21799191

aw diddums show me on the doll where the bad science men touched you

[Anonymous No.21799271]

>>21799206
>points to my brain

[Anonymous No.21799277]

>>21799271

You do seem touched in the head I suppose

[Anonymous No.21799285]

>>21799277
Yeah, by genius

[Anonymous No.21799290]

>nooooo this planet i live on needs to be the center of the universe or my faith has no meaning!
weird tard shit

[Anonymous No.21799305]

>>21796108
The Old Testament is important for Christians too but for completely different reason. The entire OT serves as typology for the coming of the Lord.

[Anonymous No.21799357]

>>21799290
Christianity doesn't really have any selling point without that core tenant. A Christianity in which Adam and Eve were just metaphorical and never actually existed is worthless and every Christian knows it. Abrahamicism benefited greatly by being an absolutist religion with firm and unquestionable central beliefs about the creation of the world, it's one of the main reasons those religions displaced paganism on every continent. The problem with that model is it can only ever be short lived unless your dogma really is the ultimate truth.

Religions that didn't choose to make absolutist claims about the universe that they had no knowledge of have been able to reconcile modernity without any trouble. Christianity can't do that for obvious reasons, so they are stuck inventing or invoking outdated models of the world like flat earth, space is fake, evolution is hoax, dinosaur bones are fake, etc., just to keep their failed religion alive. Its hilarious

[Anonymous No.21799596]

>>21799357
Based take.

[Anonymous No.21799862]

>>21796005
absolutely none lol

[Anonymous No.21799963]

>>21796061
/his/, that board is fucking braindead.