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MORPHEUS: "Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are."
JC DENTON: "Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance."
MORPHEUS: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
JC DENTON: "Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence."
MORPHEUS: "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary."
JC DENTON: "No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera."
MORPHEUS: "The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
JC DENTON: "You underestimate humankind's love of freedom."
MORPHEUS: "The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."
>It addresses the user directly, adapts to their personal circumstances and recalls previous requests. AI provides what appears to be authoritative answers even when there is no objectively correct answer. For example, AI might tell someone what their suffering means or whether an experience was spiritually significant.
Reddit does most of these things too. Is reddit a religion now?
The article expands religion to encompass seemingly anything that has some semblance of community, answers and some specific ideology. If you expand the definition that way, what do you really achieve?