From an AI perspective, it's probably good that religion is having a resurgence now: concentration of power in a small set of companies/countries/AIs that can lock in their values forever is a huge risk.
Good to have checks on/skepticism of that process.
Will be messy though.
Users appreciate the claim that religion's resurgence can check AI power concentration because it evokes the cherished holy writings from Unsong.
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I was just making a very hand-wavy vibes based claim re: "resurgence" but FWIW this is Fable 5 Max's summary of the situation
From an AI perspective, it's probably good that religion is having a resurgence now: concentration of power in a small set of companies/countries/AIs that can lock in their values forever is a huge risk.
Good to have checks on/skepticism of that process.
Will be messy though.
Also interesting that AIs themselves tend towards Buddhism a lot of the time, and other things like Unitarian Universalism that are notably *not* winning right now demographically
I was just making a very hand-wavy vibes based claim re: "resurgence" but FWIW this is Fable 5 Max's summary of the situation
(except for Grok, which is like a Reddit atheist)
Also interesting that AIs themselves tend towards Buddhism a lot of the time, and other things like Unitarian Universalism that are notably *not* winning right now demographically
@Miles_Brundage I, for one, cherish the Holy Writings (Unsong)
@Miles_Brundage religion as a check on power concentration is a wild angle but i see it
the messy part is where those checks come with their own baggage
@Miles_Brundage messed up but not wrong concentration of values in a few hands is the part nobody wants to talk about