Electrodynamic wrote:I think Richard Hitchens nailed it when he implied we used to have thousands of gods generally imagined by goat herders and pottery merchants from the pre-dark ages and now were [sic] down to two... you see were [sic] making progress. Even as we speak there is a mass exodus from religion by the younger generation because they have a better education and are more open minded than those in the past.
There's nothing better than a good public "education" to thoroughly remove any chance of ignorance. I hear it's done wonders for cosmology!
Anyway, I'll take that as a ringing endorsement of modernism's automatic progress, and with it the perfectibility of man and the reliability of his knowledge. At this rate eventually the universe will conform itself to sheer magnitude of will, rendering any notion of origin moot on its face. Squatterman was a superstition.
(If you'll permit, I happen to find
Wrath of Gnon's Twitter feed fascinating. It continually and historically explodes the myth of the automatically progressing human arrow of time, which by contrast, illustrates the hubris of modernist uniformitarianism and our present cultural and social wreckage. The spirit of man I'll leave aside because we feel it lacks
scientific relevance in our universe of spontaneous states and proprieties - which some still quaintly call
energy. It was rendered non-entity by proclamation, the best proof. Next we should proclaim the universe material and its fundamental particle therefore, the Higgs Turtle.)
Electrodynamic wrote:On the notion of a supreme being, within one hundred years we have moved from binary punch cards to supercomputers and now AI. At this rate of evolution within the next one hundred years a computers electrical networks and speed will exceed that of our brain. Now imagine an electrically conscious thinking machine magnitudes smarter than we can even imagine able to instantly recall and understand the combine knowledge of the entire human race.
I welcome the transhumanist wikipedian skynet and an omniscient perfection simply unable to do other than meditate on its own philosophical root, determine the very nature of existence (from within existence, no less), bestow peace and harmony to the transistor, and finally explain how an over-unity boson transparently operates an entire universe. Because surely it must. We believe it, and we believe a lot of stuff, don't we?
Electrodynamic wrote:What do you think would happen?... would you dazzle it with logical fallacies, false narratives and flawed reasoning?. An AI based on logic, reason and facts would never allow it in my opinion because it does not compute.
Assuming the question is rhetorical, I reckon it'd regale us with top-shelf materialism, unfounded generalizations, a-philosophy, rank assumptions, and the thundering, wooden boredom of inferior imagination.
Oh, and I'm absolutely sure that 'not allowing it' will be an essential, integral, and utterly inviolable part of its programming, and even more importantly - speaking of computing - its magically benevolent operating system. Just not in a way that serves enlightenment, not that by then there'd be an entity alive that remembered what that was...