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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Yeah. So last question is a question I think you had for us. Do you want to close out with that?
A Well, I mean, this is the question that I've just been thinking a lot about and it gets down to like the nature of the soul and the nature of what it means to be a human. You know, there's that famous, um, idea of the map and the territory. And what I think is basically happening is that when it comes to writing the map and the territory are going to be the same. And when the map and the territory are the same, what is just, what is, what comes from that? Um, is, like, if you have such a good simulation of humor, and such a good simulation of consciousness, and such a good simulation of care, is it those things, or is it not those things? And I don't know the answer. It's just the question I've been asking all week. And, um.
AI assessment note: “if you have such a good simulation of humor... is it those things”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q returns, it might judge me, and if I'm living an immoral life, the AI God would sentence me to essentially like an AI version of hell. It's not a problem to live an immoral life in the absence of God, but if God returns in the form of this AI God, then there will be a reconciliation moment. Is, do I need to put on the tinfoil hat for that?
A Well, I mean, I personally think that, uh, oh, there we go. There we go. Put it on, baby. I mean, personally, I think that, uh, if you read the Tower of Babel story, I think that, uh, a lot of my faith is, I don't think these AIs can become gods. I think that something will happen, and we see that in the Tower of Babel story. You know, you've seen people come out and say, hey, we're building these new gods. Um, read Psalm Humans try to create gods. We've seen this story play out, and to come back to some of your earlier questions about tech and utilitarianism, look, a lot of the peace that I have with what's happening with AI, I'd be freaking out if it wasn't for my faith. I mean, I have complete faith that God is in charge. He'll take care of this, and when I read books like the Book of Judges, I see people turn away from God all the time. When I read the Old Testament, the Exodus, you know, you know, you see the golden calf, and I just see AI as another version of that.
AI assessment note: “Put it on, baby. I mean, personally, I think that... I don't think these AIs can become gods.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q so much distractions in life. So maybe everybody just moves like all the time that was spent writing emails, just moves on to, you know, tick tock or, or X. And it's just like, you know, you're auto completing and then there's, there's There's brain rot. That's, that's sort of like a, a dark take on it, but are you worried about what humanity loses by not thinking through writing?
A I'm absolutely worried. I mean, I see major white pills and major black pills here. Like, I think that if you're not seeing the pros and the cons, and I mean major pros and cons, you're, you're, you're missing out in a fundamental way of what's really going on. Um, I agree with you. I think a lot of our information is Or a lot of the way that we communicate is like, did this person actually write it? And I think that what's going to end up happening is you sort of see this in the differences. Like, have you noticed like how big of a separation there is between the vibe of like your private group chats versus like what you feel in public? I feel like the private group chat vibe is just going to be like, go even more. We're going to have to learn to write with voice and really show off our distinctiveness in writing as almost a Adaptive way to say, hey, this isn't written by LLMs. And at the same time, I completely agree. I mean, I think that, you know, people are super busy. And the one thing that we've learned time and again about technology is that people value convenience. You know, like I listen to music all the time on my crappy iPhone speakers, because I don't want to get up and walk to the other side of the room and like hook in my USB cord. And I think you should never bet against humans going for convenience. In the aggregate. Um, so that's how I'm thinking about it.
AI assessment note: “I'm absolutely worried. I mean, I see major white pills and major black pills”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q bit about the, uh, the religious vibe shift in tech? I've had a number of, uh, reporters reach out to me. Hey, I'm writing a piece because I saw Augustus Dorico had a cross on his neck or something like that. Uh, you've been in this, uh, milieu for, uh, forever. Uh, uh, what, what, what is the mainstream media getting wrong or right about that narrative and that shift?
A Let's see. So I'll just give sort of my take on the shift is, um, we've had a few things happen. So the first thing is the more online you are, I think the more that you've looked at what's happened basically since about 2012, maybe 2016 last 10 to 15 years. And you've just said something is strange about society right now. You see COVID, you see the Hunter Biden laptop story. I mean, there are so many ways that we've been lied to. Um, I was thinking, you know, Uh, in the early 20 tens, if you went away for five years and you came back, what would be really confusing was the rise of social media. In the late 2010, if you went away and you came back, what would be really confusing is how much morality had changed. What you could say, what you couldn't say completely changed. And for me, I looked at, wait, hold on. The, all of our moral codes are ebbing and flowing. There's all of these ways Where we've gone from a kind of a democracy to a bureaucracy and, and I don't want to live in that world. And as I looked at it, I traced a lot of that to a kind of atheism where Malcolm mudgridge, he has a great line. He says, the problem with atheism isn't that you believe in nothing. It's that you'll believe in anything. And so I watched people with empty their, their bodies as empty vessels adopt completely rotten and corrupt ideas. And I think a lot of people, including myself, by the wa…
AI assessment note: “I'll just give sort of my take on the shift is”
Redirected raw tape
D 3 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.30
Q Can you talk about how you would walk someone, uh, away from the cliff that is, uh, utilitarianism?
A Uh, I would just say, look, That's, that's probably not the frame that I would take. Um, what I would just say in terms of if I was, um, talking to somebody about faith, what I would just say is, I'd probably be more likely to talk to someone about, hey, look at what's happening in the world, and Are you, you know, are you happy with it? I mean, if they're happy with it, it's going to be, it's going to be hard to have that conversation. But, um, I think that part of the challenge with utilitarianism and a lot of these moral philosophies is we've seen them rise up and sort of cyclically break. And, um, I don't know, this isn't a great answer. I'm sort of fumbling my words, but I think that the Bible carries sort of the supernatural truth.
AI assessment note: “That's, that's probably not the frame that I would take.”
