Artificial Intelligence is making me turn to Religion

[Anonymous]

AI is just silicon and electricity, two elements of the natural world.

Maybe you should worship AI instead if your desire is to worship the natural world.

[Anonymous]

I find getting out in nature for hikes to be helpful. Some forests and hikes are better than others. You have to figure which ones connect with you.

[Anonymous]

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was raised Christian but became mainly a science-first, Agnostic Atheist since 18 or so. This age of AI is making me want to seek religion again…not necessarily Christianity, although I do admire the fundamental teachings of Christ. I also seek a more general spirituality and, at the risk of sounding all woo-woo, a desire to find God in the natural world. There are some aspects of Japanese Shintoism that I like, among other non-Abrahamic religions that find spiritual presence in nature.
You can probably see where I’m going with this. As our lives become more virtual and digitized and especially with AI encroaching on so many aspects…and with the prospect of Artificial General Intelligence, I feel like spirituality might be the final hope to maintain some sort of grounding, or that humans will keep the upper hand against AI if we have God on our side.

I still don’t know if I believe in God or what kind of God. But I find deep appreciation and yes, worship in plants and animals and human beings and things created by God and not in a data center.

Why would you want a god that doesn’t exist on your side? How would that help?

DP but I am looking for meaning in my own life. That's how it helps.

You won’t find meaning from a nonexistent God.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was raised Christian but became mainly a science-first, Agnostic Atheist since 18 or so. This age of AI is making me want to seek religion again… things created by God and not in a data center.

You are/were not an "agnostic atheist" in the first place. There is no "seek(ing)" religion "again." You never stopped believing. While you may be disgruntled with organized religion like Christianity/Catholicism, you are afraid of truth. Seek answers to the source of your fear.

NP. Suppose Christianity is the truth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. One of my parents is Catholic, the other has the Shinto-Buddhist combo because they're Japanese and practically all of Japan respects both these creeds.

I think this has nothing to do with AI specifically, but with your fear of the unknown and the rapid developments of technology you are not familiar with. You turn to spirituality to shut out, as much as you are able, the "scary" new world that has come.

So this is fear based. You need to be aware of your inner psychology, because plenty of people end up making really bad decisions out of fear.

Sometimes fear is rational and you can make irrational decisions from unfounded exuberance as well.

[Anonymous]

I’m an atheist, but that doesn’t mean I’m putting my faith in AI. Exact opposite.

I see people blindly trusting AI and people blindly trusting religion. Different sides of the same coin - which is that some people want something or someone else to take care of thinking the hard thoughts for them and refuse to use their brains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was raised Christian but became mainly a science-first, Agnostic Atheist since 18 or so. This age of AI is making me want to seek religion again… things created by God and not in a data center.

You are/were not an "agnostic atheist" in the first place. There is no "seek(ing)" religion "again." You never stopped believing. While you may be disgruntled with organized religion like Christianity/Catholicism, you are afraid of truth. Seek answers to the source of your fear.

NP. Suppose Christianity is the truth?

Then you would suppose incorrectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was raised Christian but became mainly a science-first, Agnostic Atheist since 18 or so. This age of AI is making me want to seek religion again… things created by God and not in a data center.

You are/were not an "agnostic atheist" in the first place. There is no "seek(ing)" religion "again." You never stopped believing. While you may be disgruntled with organized religion like Christianity/Catholicism, you are afraid of truth. Seek answers to the source of your fear.

NP. Suppose Christianity is the truth?

That’s what they tell you, if you believe them, then go ahead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was raised Christian but became mainly a science-first, Agnostic Atheist since 18 or so. This age of AI is making me want to seek religion again… things created by God and not in a data center.

You are/were not an "agnostic atheist" in the first place. There is no "seek(ing)" religion "again." You never stopped believing. While you may be disgruntled with organized religion like Christianity/Catholicism, you are afraid of truth. Seek answers to the source of your fear.

NP. Suppose Christianity is the truth?

All religions say that. Suppose it’s not the truth?