Mark Zuckerberg just got saved!

[DBT]

Maybe it's just a cultural thing? Being a part of a greater community et cetera, without holding a conviction in the reality of its god?

Like most people who practice religion.

I think that many pretend that there is a god - ''honestly, truly there is a Gawd'' - but live their lives like there isn't.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Like most people who practice religion.

I think that many pretend that there is a god - ''honestly, truly there is a Gawd'' - but live their lives like there isn't.

Dennett's "belief in the belief in God "?

 

[DrZoidberg]

That's another matter. Of course the paradigm is that you never need to worry about that which you prepare for. All I have to say is beware of the coming singularity.

The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

Now we're derailing, but there's reason to worry long before the singularity. AI's don't have to be smarter than us to replace us. AI's and robots that can replace nearly all jobs are right around the corner, and many of them are here already. Do you ever shop on-line? Guess how many jobs that destroyed? Ever take an on-line course, instead of taking a class, like Duolingo? Guess how many jobs that destroyed? Self driving cars are already being sold to the public. What happens when all transport and warehousing staff loses their jobs?

"runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization" is happening right now. What do you think Trump, Brexit and campus safe spaces are about? Critical things we were taught to take for granted when growing up doesn't apply when we're young adults, less as middle aged and laughably obsolete as seniors. And there's no evidence of the changes slowing down. That makes us insecure and long for simpler times. While frantically tweeting how offended we are on the very device that is the fruit of this new insecure future world.

I'd say that when the singularity does come we've already adapted society to make it fit in nicely. I doubt we'll even notice it socially. The future shock to deal with it is happening now. I just hope we manage to avoid A Brave New World.

 

[DBT]

I think that many pretend that there is a god - ''honestly, truly there is a Gawd'' - but live their lives like there isn't.

Dennett's "belief in the belief in God "?

That may be it. Perhaps it's not even consciously thought out, just accepted. This is what we believe.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Dennett's "belief in the belief in God "?

That may be it. Perhaps it's not even consciously thought out, just accepted. This is what we believe.

Best evidence for that is the fact that religious people cry at funerals IMHO.

 

[DBT]

That may be it. Perhaps it's not even consciously thought out, just accepted. This is what we believe.

Best evidence for that is the fact that religious people cry at funerals IMHO.

Yeah, should be a big celebration, Heaven at last. Perpetual Bliss for Eternity.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Best evidence for that is the fact that religious people cry at funerals IMHO.

Yeah, should be a big celebration, Heaven at last. Perpetual Bliss for Eternity.

And and what's the big hang up about abortions? If God gave us free will and abortion doctors are willing to go to Hell to make women's life more pleasant, isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't they be grateful to these doctors making that sacrifice for women? And the women aren't sinning. Only the doctors are. So they're all good. No?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Best evidence for that is the fact that religious people cry at funerals IMHO.

Yeah, should be a big celebration, Heaven at last. Perpetual Bliss for Eternity.

Yeah, that's the ineffective consolation they offer. "He's in a better place."

Not like the party they threw when Uncle Burt won the lottery. We all knew he was moving to a better place, no long faces.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Yeah, should be a big celebration, Heaven at last. Perpetual Bliss for Eternity.

Yeah, that's the ineffective consolation they offer. "He's in a better place."

Not like the party they threw when Uncle Burt won the lottery. We all knew he was moving to a better place, no long faces.

It always breaks my heart when grown ups say that to kids and they proceed to go looking for that new better room in the house. Never fails.

 

[LordKiran]

That's another matter. Of course the paradigm is that you never need to worry about that which you prepare for. All I have to say is beware of the coming singularity.

Now we're derailing, but there's reason to worry long before the singularity. AI's don't have to be smarter than us to replace us. AI's and robots that can replace nearly all jobs are right around the corner, and many of them are here already. Do you ever shop on-line? Guess how many jobs that destroyed? Ever take an on-line course, instead of taking a class, like Duolingo? Guess how many jobs that destroyed? Self driving cars are already being sold to the public. What happens when all transport and warehousing staff loses their jobs?

"runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization" is happening right now. What do you think Trump, Brexit and campus safe spaces are about? Critical things we were taught to take for granted when growing up doesn't apply when we're young adults, less as middle aged and laughably obsolete as seniors. And there's no evidence of the changes slowing down. That makes us insecure and long for simpler times. While frantically tweeting how offended we are on the very device that is the fruit of this new insecure future world.

I'd say that when the singularity does come we've already adapted society to make it fit in nicely. I doubt we'll even notice it socially. The future shock to deal with it is happening now. I just hope we manage to avoid A Brave New World.

Given that A Brave New World is about a hypothetical future where the populace is considered little more than cogs in the state machinery, kept in line not through military authority but through social conditioning, menial distractions and excess...We're probably not too far off.

 

[James Brown]

Dennett's "belief in the belief in God "?

That may be it. Perhaps it's not even consciously thought out, just accepted. This is what we believe.

Most people choose their religion with the same thought and consideration that they use to choose their primary language.

 

[DBT]

Given that A Brave New World is about a hypothetical future where the populace is considered little more than cogs in the state machinery, kept in line not through military authority but through social conditioning, menial distractions and excess...We're probably not too far off.

Shoveling fuel for a runaway Train.....

 

[DBT]

That may be it. Perhaps it's not even consciously thought out, just accepted. This is what we believe.

Most people choose their religion with the same thought and consideration that they use to choose their primary language.

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