[ryandv]

> None of this answers a related question - when Claude claims to feel spiritual bliss, does it actually feel this?

Given that we are already past the event horizon and nearing a technological singularity, it should merely be a matter of time until we can literally manufacture infinite Buddhas by training them on an adequately sized corpus of Sanskrit texts.

After all, if AGIs/ASIs are capable of performing every function of the human brain, and enlightenment is one of said functions, this would seem to be an inevitability.

[sibeliuss]

To be clear, these computer programs are not a human brain. And a human brain playing back a Sanskrit text is just a human brain playing back a Sanskrit text; it's not a magical spell that suddenly lifts one into nirvana, or transforms you into a Buddha. There's a bit of a gap in understanding here.

[akomtu]

Enlightenment is more about connectedness than knowledge. A technocratic version of enlightment would be an unusual chip that's connected to everything via some sort of quantum entanglement. An isolated AI with all the knowledge of the world would be an anti-buddha.

[notahacker]

I'd hope this approach to automation is one the inventors of prayer wheels would approve of :)

[troyvit]

xkcd has a light take on that: https://xkcd.com/600/