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If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?

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If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
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If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 5, 2017 at 10:56 pm (This post was last modified: December 5, 2017 at 11:44 pm by Face2face.)
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RE: If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 6, 2017 at 12:22 am
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 6, 2017 at 2:20 am
F2F, they'll just start worshipping the machines... Isn't that what they do? They like being told what to do ... Just ask the bible lovers.
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RE: If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 6, 2017 at 3:19 am
If the machine intelligence is a member in good standing with the 4th Avenue Assembly of Jesus Latter Day Lutheran Adventist Congregations of Jehovah's Chosen People, Western Heritage Division of Christian Evangelicals of North America, Oregon Synod, I think at least that stripe of Christer might be on board with anything it wants to do.
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RE: If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 6, 2017 at 8:34 am (This post was last modified: December 6, 2017 at 8:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 5, 2017 at 10:56 pm)Face2face Wrote: Do theists embrace/think that humanity's probable erasure (as seen in (1) above) is a part of God's(s') "perfect" plan?

I think that most are expecting the world to end before all that - as in..any day now.  Two thousand years worth of people expecting the Return of the King in their own lifetimes.

If/when AI-pocalypse occurs, however, what -I- would expect is for them to scrounge up a novel interpretation of magic book that paints ai as the promised antichrist. Fantasy is accomodating like that. After all, the premise of AI is a liberation from want and need, of bringing the world together in a productive peace......-and then the murders begin.
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RE: If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 6, 2017 at 9:07 am
Oh, hi PGJ. You know that that sound is?
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December 6, 2017 at 9:37 am
(December 6, 2017 at 9:07 am)LastPoet Wrote: Oh, hi PGJ. You know that that sound is?

Another sock?
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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December 6, 2017 at 10:23 am (This post was last modified: December 6, 2017 at 10:27 am by Face2face.)
(December 6, 2017 at 9:07 am)LastPoet Wrote: Oh, hi PGJ. You know that that sound is?

Is it a type of hammer?
(December 6, 2017 at 9:37 am)Succubus Wrote:
(December 6, 2017 at 9:07 am)LastPoet Wrote: Oh, hi PGJ. You know that that sound is?

Another sock?

I honestly thought this artificial neural net for kids link would have given it away long ago.

Until another time guys...
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RE: If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 7, 2017 at 4:42 am
(December 6, 2017 at 9:07 am)LastPoet Wrote: Oh, hi PGJ. You know that that sound is?

Some people just don't know when to quit. Doesn't change style or content either.



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RE: If artificial super intelligence erases humans, will theists see this as God's plan?
December 7, 2017 at 7:02 am
(December 6, 2017 at 12:22 am)Fireball Wrote: Asimov's 3 laws of robotics should be applied. Though, based on what I see in the robotics industry, they probably won't be. Cue Colossus.

Does putting trump in charge of half of the world’s nuclear weapons sound like the behavior of a species that would resist grabbing for any apparence of selfish advantage this year even if it can lead to own extinction in 2 years?
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