<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I came late to reading /. and am about to give up on it. But this<br>
caught my eye.<br>
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Machine Intelligence and Religion<br>
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Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:48PM<br>
from the i'm-sorry-dave,-god-can't-let-you-do-that dept.<br>
itwbennett writes:<br>
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Earlier this month Reverend Dr. Christopher J. Benek raised eyebrows<br>
on the Internet by stating his belief that Christians should seek to<br>
convert Artificial Intelligences to Christianity if and when they<br>
become autonomous. Of course that's assuming that robots are born<br>
atheists, not to mention that there's still a vast difference between<br>
what it means to be autonomous and what it means to be human. On the<br>
other hand, suppose someone did endow a strong AI with emotion –<br>
encoded, say, as a strong preference for one type of experience over<br>
another, coupled with the option to subordinate reasoning to that<br>
preference upon occasion or according to pattern. what ramifications<br>
could that have for algorithmic decision making?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">He's just looking for publicity since AIs cannot possibly tithe! bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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