▲ 163 ▼ Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 2 years ago by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems 80 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dgerard@awful.systems [S] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) Jesus 2.0 is an AI, and he's American permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cstross@wandering.shop 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) @dgerard I dunno if you've read it but one of the wellsprings of this lunacy is "The Physics of Immortality" by Frank Tipler (1997), in which an astrophysics prof tries to square the circle of cosmological expansion and the resurrection through simulation, outing himself along the way as a very conflicted Christian fundamentalist who is determined to torture relativity until he can derive Jesus ... https://archive.org/details/frank-tipler-the-physics-of-immortality/mode/1up permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dgerard@awful.systems [S] 9 points 2 years ago oh yeah and for the present, just how incredibly many of the rationalist subculture turn out to be ex-evangelicals permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cstross@wandering.shop 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) @dgerard I dunno if you've read it but one of the wellsprings of this lunacy is "The Physics of Immortality" by Frank Tipler (1997), in which an astrophysics prof tries to square the circle of cosmological expansion and the resurrection through simulation, outing himself along the way as a very conflicted Christian fundamentalist who is determined to torture relativity until he can derive Jesus ... https://archive.org/details/frank-tipler-the-physics-of-immortality/mode/1up permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dgerard@awful.systems [S] 9 points 2 years ago oh yeah and for the present, just how incredibly many of the rationalist subculture turn out to be ex-evangelicals permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dgerard@awful.systems [S] 9 points 2 years ago oh yeah and for the present, just how incredibly many of the rationalist subculture turn out to be ex-evangelicals permalink fedilink source parent