Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.

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  • the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Destruction of the planet, hardly. The earth has and will shrug of worse than humanity. Thinking otherwise is giving humanity too much credit.

    Destruction of humanity is more likely. We are actively making the earth worse for us, and may other species. But there are many more which will survive and thrive after we destroy ourselves.

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    • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think when people say “destruction of the planet” they are really meaning “our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct”.

      Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we’re gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we’ll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that’s a bit in the weeds).

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know what I meant

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      • the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        😋

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.

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• other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  These people think they’re in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.

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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because they think that they’re going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.

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• chris@l.roofo.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because they think they will go to heaven. If I read the Bible I’d say they wouldn’t.

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