me: gets that squinty eyed look you know from every spaghetti western, just before both gunslingers slap leatherhttps://twitter.com/padrebrendon/status/1090109790641106944 …
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But Asimov’s stories entail a world in which intelligence can be intentionally engineered out of material arrangement. Which entails a tweaking of the metaphysical nature of reality. Which is fantasy.
Asimov was a Godless communist, and we shall speak no more of him or his (many) heresies.
That makes me wonder about someone writing a sci-fi book with AI where the final proof isn’t some Turing test, but a desire to be baptized.
That's an interesting thought. I've always viewed "AI" as man imitating God. We are made in His image, and as He made people, we make "people". Ours is always a smaller shadow, it's implicit in the arrangement. If God stepped in to give it a soul, the symbolism breaks down.
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