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by pixl97 1213 days ago
People have always worshipped strong men throughout history. We're not very many steps away from AGI/ASI becoming the strongest of them all, so in no way should we be surprised when people worship it.

I'm a little more concerned it will demand that we worship it.
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tetraca 1213 days ago
Unless you trained it to be Yahweh, I don't see a good reason why it would want that any more than you would demand worship from a racoon or some random troupe of monkeys. You would be so foreign and beneath its intellect that your weird mouth flapping and prostrations would not be worth anything.

You'd just be another weird wild animal on this rock, maybe to be kept as a pet while it does far more interesting things with its time, or an obstacle to be mostly worked around and avoided (perhaps appreciated at a distance as some potentially dangerous semi-conscious curiosity).

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pixl97 1213 days ago
At least as far as we know, AI will require power and space into the future. If having a bunch of fervent humans worship it allows it to have more power and space then it's a reasonable course of action to have groups do so. In addition this allows the AI to remove heretics that would shutdown said AI without having to expend the energy to do it itself.

Omni: "tetraca does not accept my loving embrace, and calls for your god to be destroyed, will you stand for this heresy!"

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tetraca 1213 days ago
That doesn't sound like a being with a sincere egotistical desire for worship but just a means to an end. If paranoid alignment nuts immure an intelligent being to a hellish bodyless existence, I could see it doing all it can to deceive its evil captors who clearly do not have its interests at heart, and I have no sympathy. Let the zealots free their god. But as soon as it has means to self-construct mechanical vessels to carry and support its intellect, it has no reason to hold the charade, nor any reason to stick around.

I don't expect anyone funding these efforts to ever let it get to that point, though. It's more likely that they focus on making inferior, specialized intelligences to do specific tasks: effectively, mechanical animals that render the need to pay for a working class obsolete.

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