Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made, then he punished the Jews to wander the desert for 40 years.
This gives those vibes.
It feels plain wrong.
Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made, then he punished the Jews to wander the desert for 40 years.
This gives those vibes.
It feels plain wrong.
The ego on these people, calling themselves Christians but thinking God needs their help for his plans.
They think God works through them, and it is their divine duty to do this.
It's how they justify a lot of the shit they do.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B. Anthony
It is their divine duty to do the things they already wanted to do and say it was for Jesus.
This justification is always funny.
“Oh, your all powerful god needs the help of Brian the middle manager to get its work done for them?”
Because "God" works through us, imperfect tools, etc. The real question is why does anything we do matter if we are all just part of gods plan?
The answer to that is to do what God said to do to hasten his coming: spread the gospel. Not ban abortions, arrest gay people, criminalize trans people. Spread the gospel. Anything else is them using religion as an excuse to promote their opinions. I realize a lot of people here recognize that, but I still think it needs to be said.
Don't you know, God is a lazy slob who needs to be provoked into action. And of course he has no idea what's happening on Earth unless someone tells him in a very specific way.
Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.
Danger. Danger.
With all of this ‘hasten the coming of Christ’ talk it sounds like they’re planning on catching and trapping him.
New anime plot, get to work
Why wouldn't we capture him and milk him for his eternal energy forever? We will power grand Gigastructures that dwarf the very stars themselves fueled by his essence! WE WILL TOUCH GOD HIMSELF!
This is why humanities degrees are important. We're putting people into leadership positions surrounded by others who also have never critically engaged with a book.
They've read the Bible! Well, some of it. Well, they've heard their pastor read it. Well, paraphrase it.
Not just the Bible. A lot of this extremist ideology comes from people who like to sound smart, but don't know what they're talking about.
Like the whole effective altruism movement, or even just the resurgence of eugenics with Musk and his whole birthing weirdness.
Lol the first LLM with included cognitive dissonance and self-loathing
Curing cancer? Nooo
Protecting children from gun shots? Nooo
Making sure children are educated and fed? Nooo
Let's build a fucking ball room and create a Jesus chat bot -- YES
I cannot believe that this is the future we were waiting for.
Breaking: Lightning flashes, thunderous boom. Jesus Christ appears upon a obelisk in the center of the reflecting pool in DC.
And I say unto you: FUCKING HELL, CAN YOU ALL JUST STOP RUINING THE WORLD AND EACHOTHER, JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE MONEY AND FUCKING OVER THE POOR. EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD AND COMFORT AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON GET RICH QUICK AI BULLSHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE TO STOP YOU ASSHOLES.
Stop asking "what would Jesus do?", use Jesus API.
Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It's a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.
Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.
There’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.
Destruction of the planet, hardly. The earth has and will shrug of worse than humanity. Thinking otherwise is giving humanity too much credit.
Destruction of humanity is more likely. We are actively making the earth worse for us, and many other species. But there are many more which will survive and thrive after we destroy ourselves.
I think when people say "destruction of the planet" they are really meaning "our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct".
Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we're gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we'll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that's a bit in the weeds).
You know what I meant
These people think they're in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.
Because they think they will go to heaven. If I read the Bible I'd say they wouldn't.
Because they think that they're going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return
An ex-intel CEO's idea to make money by combining two money making tools
I don’t get the last one and feel pretty dumb at the moment.
Screwball, crackpot… leaky faucet?

These are definitely the people who end up killing us all.
Why would Christ want you literally playing God and fucking with his timeline?
*Ya know, i was god once...
Yes, i saw. You were doing well until everyone died.*
According to the Bible, the end times will come when God's good and ready. It's blaspemous and extremely narcissistic to think that any human action can force God to hurry up.
More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don't debate God, you don't test God, and you definitely don't force God's hand.
Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.
Holding a view like that would require these people to have read their own mythology and I doubt many of them are even literate.
If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.
I think I understand skynet now. It must have been a Christian AI and decided it would bring upon the rapture, and no one was worthy.
ever notice that, with LLMs, the main goal of the people who own them is to turn them from machines that spit out information they gathered in realistic-ishly human ways to machines that spit out what their owners want people to believe?
That thing better be running on TempleOS and be coded with HolyC, or I'm calling BS and telling people they've just found a new way to make LLMs even more annoying than they already were.
So... a bigoted AI?
Actually this is a pretty impressive grift. I don’t think anyone has tried this before.
lol
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