A very intriguing thought from a Christian theological perspective is, God created man his his own image, and now we've created AI in our own. And look where we are now!
This raises many intriguing questions:
- Does that mean we have created AI in God's image?
- Or was their "misalignment" between God and us like there seems to be between us and AI?
- Did God cast man out of Eden because he was worried we'd destroy heaven?
- Is the Bible our system prompt or a user prompt?
- Is life an eval to vet whether individual agents err people can contribute to his tasks without going rogue and destroying heaven?
- Are harmful human behaviors in the name of religion unintended "reward hacking"?
- Does this explain the rather weird relationship between God that requires getting twisted into logical pretzels to rationalize?
- Did God go through this crisis himself? ;-)
I'm sure there are many more similar lines of inquiry but I'm just not familiar enough with Christianity to make the connections. Would be fun to read an expert thesis that explores this parallel!
You've got it backwards. You've used AI-adjacent jargon to blindly grope towards philosophical issues that have been debated for thousands of years. You may enjoy reading actual philosophy, you might be surprised how deep they've gone on those issues. Thousands of years is a lot of time.
From a Christian perspective, I imagine a lot of what you've said is incoherent. God is all-knowing, so he's not 'worried' or going through 'crises'. He already knows how the story ends. It's doubtful he even experiences time - to God, it's all already happened, is currently happening, and has all already happened.
Personally, I think the philosophy is more interesting than the theology. (And at a sufficiently high level, once you leave all the tots and grannies in their pews with their bedtime stories, theology rises to become not unlike philosophy.)
keeda · · focus · HN ↗
This raises many intriguing questions:
- Does that mean we have created AI in God's image?
- Or was their "misalignment" between God and us like there seems to be between us and AI?
- Did God cast man out of Eden because he was worried we'd destroy heaven?
- Is the Bible our system prompt or a user prompt?
- Is life an eval to vet whether individual agents err people can contribute to his tasks without going rogue and destroying heaven?
- Are harmful human behaviors in the name of religion unintended "reward hacking"?
- Does this explain the rather weird relationship between God that requires getting twisted into logical pretzels to rationalize?
- Did God go through this crisis himself? ;-)
I'm sure there are many more similar lines of inquiry but I'm just not familiar enough with Christianity to make the connections. Would be fun to read an expert thesis that explores this parallel!
throwaway899773 · · focus · HN ↗
From a Christian perspective, I imagine a lot of what you've said is incoherent. God is all-knowing, so he's not 'worried' or going through 'crises'. He already knows how the story ends. It's doubtful he even experiences time - to God, it's all already happened, is currently happening, and has all already happened.
Personally, I think the philosophy is more interesting than the theology. (And at a sufficiently high level, once you leave all the tots and grannies in their pews with their bedtime stories, theology rises to become not unlike philosophy.)