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   The "LessWrong" contingent in Silicon Valley is an apocalyptic cult that has re-invented very specific Christian concepts, just with "AI" in place of "God".

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 23:09:42 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

     There's not a lot of daylight between this kind of religious ecstatic fervor for AIs and the NYT article that concluded that, because ChatGPT output a string containing "I am alive," ChatGPT must be sentient.

     https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/114450638623375146

     Rich Felker repeated this.