If you want an esoteric Christian take on AI I recommend reading Rudolf Steiner. In 1919 he predicted that a being he called Ahriman (the spirit of cold materialism/mechanism) would incarnate in the West this millennium and use technology to reduce human soul and consciousness to mere calculations. Steiner explained that Ahriman’s primary deception is to convince humanity that the material world is the only reality. Ahriman pushes a cold, calculative thinking that treats the soul as a mechanism and reduces consciousness to purely physical brain processes. Steiner saw the Christ impulse as the essential balance between Lucifer (spiritual pride/escapism) and Ahriman. The modern drive to elevate machine consciousness over the human soul looks deeply Ahrimanic. Many AI builders discussing the new machine gods are caught between Luciferic and Ahrimanic impulses without seeing either.
I consider Dryden a friend, but: No idea could ever come close to being as monumental as Christ’s birth, crucifixion, and resurrection. His humanity and divinity. Our salvation through Him. This is The Idea. Today’s pompous, futurist AI-cultists will, just like the last two
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Yes yes yes yes! Finally someone gets it. This is at the core of my belief system.
thoughts @a_musingcat ?