• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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?

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    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.

  • AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    Hastening the coming? He needs to reread the bible then.

    “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” - Matthew 24:36

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    Having to reach waaay back into the memories of my Christian upbringing here, but I seem to recall that God doesn’t like people who try to game the system

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    Christian fundamentalists in charge of finding new exciting ways to kill themselves and take everyone else with them in the process.

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    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.

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    And I didn’t think I could loathe religion, and those weak willed enough to need it, more. Thanks Patrick, you superstitious cunt!