4 pointsby webappsecperson3 hours ago5 comments
  • ThrowawayR22 hours ago
    For pity's sake people, the essay has nothing to do with traditional religions and their deities except an analogy about clergy. It's about how to interface with a hypothetical AGI / ASI with god-like abilities, which this person seems to believe is inevitable.
    • fuzzfactor5 minutes ago
      Either way if the "almighty" was as good as some people suppose it to be you woudn't need anyone serving as priest of any kind.
  • JohnFen2 hours ago
    No, I wouldn't. Particularly not if the God were a force that I considered malevolent.
  • AnimalMuppet2 hours ago
    No. First, if I knew that God existed, then a priest in which church? Don't automatically assume the answer to that. (Even "priest" is an assumption to a flavor of church.)

    But second, still no. Someone has to take it to the street, not just leave it in the churches.

  • voidUpdate3 hours ago
    If I knew god existed, I would ask him why he let the world get into such a state, and which of omnipotent, benevolent and omniscient he is not
    • AnimalMuppet2 hours ago
      The Christian/biblical answer is that he didn't make it like this. He made it perfect, and we rebelled against him, and we made it like this.

      And why did he allow that? Because he allows us free will, and he allows us the consequences of our free will. That is, he chooses to restrain his omnipotence.

      I'm going to guess that you find that to be a "just so" story. But it's not as simple a story as you made it.

      And if you don't think God exists, then many of the problems - war and pollution and exploitation and violence - are still our doing. We don't escape.

      • JohnFenan hour ago
        But that's an answer from a particular sect, not from a god.
      • voidUpdate2 hours ago
        A child is allowed free will, but a parent will stop them killing other children, hopefully
    • foldr2 hours ago
      "I don't know".
  • catlover763 hours ago
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