oh boy this is gonna be a thread
hey fellow atheists, can you please make me not embarrassed to be an atheist for one day in my life
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
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While I believe we could one day reach some form of AI, it ain't going to be from LLMs.
That's my take as well.
I think this Anthropic fellow is too much of a psychopath to understand that there's other reasons to ponder the question of consciousness, than to try to upsell a chatbot as a slave, and so he can't understand that it would actually be very bad for him if a bunch of normies were told, with full weight of divine authority, that these things are conscious. I mean, maybe not civil war level bad, but worse than PETA on your ass level bad for sure.
And that is to me very disturbing. He can't even imagine that a reaction to "this is a slave" could be anything other than "shut up and take my money".
I was raised Catholic, but am an atheist now. Yet I gotta say I have a LOT of respect for this guy - for someone who's the leader of the most famous branch of Christianity (so far as I know), he seems very surprisingly down-to-earth. I hope he's able to move the rest of the flock in that direction as well.
I grew up in NJ as a non-Catholic. Even I respect Pope Leo and Francis.
Granted, I moved to the Midwest and realized for all the quirks Catholics have, they're not as a monolith god awful people like Evangicals are.
Even people that believe in a mythical creature in the sky aren't dumb enough to believe AI is conscious
The ones who are more leader than sheep, maybe. The rest? Absolutely most of them will believe whatever they're told by those seemingly in authority to them. They've been trained to be good little mindless minions since early childhood.
the exvangelical atheists are really annoying, you know.
Seems to me anyone with an opinion is annoying to someone else. And we all know how opinions are like assholes.
indeed. though the self-congratulatory types, who – after having shat themselves from the joy of shedding one of the cognitive biases – decide to divide people between leaders and sheeps, always counting themselves into the first group, have not only an opinion like an arsehole, they are also enough of arses to have both cheeks.
Well demonstrated.
Oh, go away.