Trey Sullivan

[St. Thomas Aquinas @Aquinas_Quotes]

It is possible for a thing to become more or less like God.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The truth is that Irreligion is the opium of the people. Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they will worship the strongest thing in the world.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@algekalipso People become what they worship, and everyone worships something.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@jordanbpeterson “Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.” - G.K. Chesterton

[Jonathan Pageau @PageauJonathan]

The future is religious, no one can stop that anymore. The question remaining is what that religiosity will be turned toward.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@goth600 @agenda2033 Solid theology.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@Plinz Alignment with God is arguably what originally aligned humanity appropriately with reality, so maybe it would work for AIs as well.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@3_deame @yur3tz @examinedjiwan @Plinz If a being is nothing without this “indoctrination,” what makes us think that AI would be any different? There’s a good argument that language is what creates mind in the first place.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@examinedjiwan @Plinz Let the AI read the 6,000+ years of theological literature and draw conclusions.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Thomas Aquinas defines God (among other things) as the best possible agent, and God emerges through our actions when we make the best decisions. In this perspective, we should align AGI with God, the longest player. Playing the longest game maximizes agency in the universe.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@PageauMatthieu @g4rter_snake Palantir Defense Solutions is the AI that is currently fighting in Ukraine.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@Plinz Right, and rules and indoctrination can’t be true alignment with the good. But minds do need an ideal to emulate and attain to. For AI, a telos less than Perfection would be dangerous.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@Plinz Anselm spoke that global optimum as the “being of which none greater can be conceived.” AI could be aligned the same way humans historically have been, by worshipping and becoming more like the object of their worship.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@jonsteingard Just for a non-theological counter-example: Physics. Equations can be written-down as a abstractions (outside of time and space), and then almost all of them work both forwards backwards in real space and time.

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@xai Why does anything exist, rather than nothing at all?

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@Plinz “Those who make them become like them.”

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@ShawnRyan762 Welcome!

[Trey Sullivan @TreyBSullivan]

@goth600 All of them. Religious institutions are tax-exempt.