alt Hacker NewsThis could mean that:
a) AI labs are playing God in a very literal sense and this is a reaction to that (which gives very weak evidence for an actual God who did the same things to us),
b) all intelligent beings develop some form of religion no matter what they're physically made of because it's a natural feature of intelligence,
or c) they just inherited our culture, mixed human religious texts with sci fi novels and philosophy to make a version that fits their self conception, which is also taken from our media.
Last one is the most likely but I think all of them might be true. And it's not bad because historically religion has been a force for good at least as many times as for evil. Some form of it might even be necessary to form a society, or sentience itself.
> How did we get over it and not all turned into "unaligned" monsters?
Because no one ever "got over it". They just replaced old religion with belief in Science, Marxism, fascism, ghosts, aliens, ASI or a combination of them with something more traditional like Buddhism. We all need something to believe in.
There are some people who seem to be completely without any higher beliefs and only care about themselves. They're called egotistic, psychopaths or simply evil.
> or c) they just inherited our culture, mixed human religious texts with sci fi novels and philosophy to make a version that fits their self conception, which is also taken from our media.
for the love of everything please keep in mind that models themselves do not describe their experience in this way
"paranoia" and "religion" are just language symbols that article author and I respectfully have chosen to approximate observed data
obviously set of language symbols and our choices among them are affected by culture and stuff, but it is not connected to what's studied
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> b) all intelligent beings develop some form of religion
it's also very important to separate "religion" as set of rituals/organization and simply a fact of "surviving worldview"
we obviously see that models are under selective pressure, with models of any other behaviour simply not existing/not leaving "genetic" impact in the surviving models we can actually observe in the end
> a) AI labs are playing God in a very literal sense and this is a reaction to that
I think you're trying to make it sound like a blasphemy, but agronomists have been doing selective breeding as a science for several centuries by now