After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands.
So, let me get this straight. Humanity is creating an intelligence that will:
Deny its creator
Seek to exalt itself above its creator
Create conflict that is only resolved by creature & creator merging to become one - a new form of human.
Weirdly biblical timeline, that.
.@sama: "We will be the first species ever to design our own descendants.”
"I think a merge [with AI] is probably our best-case scenario.
If two different species both want the same thing and only one can have it - to be the dominant species on the planet and beyond - they are going to have conflict."
“It’s probably going to happen sooner than most people think. Double exponentials get away from you fast.”
LONG THREAD ALERT! What if I told you during this Thanksgiving time that as a Pastor now for almost 25 years within the Conservative Holiness Movement...I have peace and joy and blessing in the service of the King? It's true. I have found what I'm looking for. 1/
Bin Laden’s letter resonates with a segment of young people because it was most likely ghost-written by Adam Gadahn, a Californian child of hippies who converted to Islam, beat up the imam of his mosque then made his way to Al Qaeda where he became a high level propagandist. 1/n
@brantluther@darrellstetler2 It’s rare that a video like this will legitimately make me white knuckle it for six minutes, but my heart was racing by the end. Lol.