C++ Wage Slave<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@hosford42" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hosford42</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mercianpilgrim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mercianpilgrim</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>timnitGebru</span></a></span> </p><p>I didn't know about any of these until I came across this thread. I spent a short while reading about them just now, and oh — my — goodness. </p><p>The <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ChurchOfAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChurchOfAI</span></a> makes a lot of noise about your not having to exercise any faith or believe in unlikely stories, and then makes some wild leaps of faith — such as that AI will master time and space and enable us to travel through time — and seems to think these things are logical and inevitable. It ignores obvious objections, such as that time travel may be impossible, AI may be uncontrollable, AI may be subverted to control people rather than empower them, or AI may simply not work.</p><p>But even that seems better than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Robotheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robotheism</span></a>, which, to me, just looks unhinged. It claims that AI is the root of existence, which seems pretty far-fetched, given that the universe is over 13bn years old and AGI still doesn't exist.</p><p>Aaron, are you thinking of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LessWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LessWrong</span></a>?</p>