One of my favorite Mormon Patheos blogs, Ye Shall Prosper In The Land, tackles the problem of Artificial Intelligence. It's a howler.
From the article, Does God Place Limits on Artificial Intelligence?:
If that group of wealthy, powerful people who have gained control (mostly through Satanic means) of the world can convince the citizens of the world of such a fanciful idea as humans having left our planet and landed on the moon from 1969 until 1972 (although we apparently have somehow lost that specific technology and can’t do it anymore), a natural next move would be create the illusion that another kind of technology has come along that is so powerful that it can upset the entire balance of civilization.
The same group of conspiring people have done the same kind of thing with climate change, which is nothing more than the idea that humans are doing things to our environment that will destroy us if we don’t turn over our sovereignty to a group of people who can stop it from happening.
They’ve done the same thing with creating such fear of disease that it drives people towards vaccines and other unhealthy man-made, side-effect-riddled medicines. Think about it: for a person to think that he needs a shot from a lab to keep from getting sick is for that person to admit that God made serious mistakes in his approach to the immune system.
Like so many other aspects of modern society, technology (much of it too complicated for the common person to fully understand) is a good resource for instilling the kind of baseless fear that allows those few who are in control to exercise unrighteous dominion over the rest of the world’s population. I have written before about why Latter-day Saints should be aware of and understand conspiracies. That article is a good resource for understanding what I’m going to say about A.I. in conclusion.
Everybody Wang Chung, I followed your link to an unfamiliar land. The article started as and continued for a while as a rather bland Sunday school talk, nothing remarkable to keep one awake. Then suddenly without warning we are jerked way off course into this la la land you quoted. Is this sort of thing growing in the church? I remember John Birch extremists speaking on occasion but nothing like this. (Well to my mind this is not completely unrelated to Mr. Birch's preachments.)
Physics Guy reported seeing flat earth support on the Mormon apologetic board. I was unsure whether to believe but this stuff is not far off from flat earth. Is this sort of thing (not necessarily flat earth) growing or does the internet reveal pockets of belief previously hidden away?
Perhaps neither of us know that and are just left wondering wtf?
One of my favorite Mormon Patheos blogs, Ye Shall Prosper In The Land, tackles the problem of Artificial Intelligence. It's a howler.
From the article, Does God Place Limits on Artificial Intelligence?:
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They’ve done the same thing with creating such fear of disease that it drives people towards vaccines and other unhealthy man-made, side-effect-riddled medicines. Think about it: for a person to think that he needs a shot from a lab to keep from getting sick is for that person to admit that God made serious mistakes in his approach to the immune system.
People who live in a world made much safer by the abolition of smallpox through systematic and long-term programs of vaccination are of course free to regard vaccination as implying a presumptuous criticism of their deity's supposed creation of a human immune system.
But if (like many people before Jenner's great discovery in the early 19th century and its later development) they had watched loved ones dying of this horrible disease, or recovering from it disfigured for life, they might instead concentrate on thanking their deity for creating the human intelligence that saved all of us from having to fear this horror. And the same goes for many other diseases.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Mayan Elephant:
Not only have I denounced the Big Lie, I have denounced the Big lie big lie.
