Comment by pols45
3 months ago
Creating god is not hard. The chimp troupe did it thousands of years ago. And we still cling to them. No AI required.
r/textingtheory on the other hand shows texting and sexting mastery and high elo require serious hard work.
I am kinda on an experiment to become religious so I can figure out a hack on society and make people do what I think is best.
It’s clear it’s impossible to educate the masses. Might as well feed into their delusions and fears. Whether it’s traditional religions or social media addictions or lifestyle type shit. Maybe there’s a subtle universal way to get as many people onboard without being explicit or having them change their current ways.
It hurts my brain though to dumb it down… room temp IQ is a hard life.
> I am kinda on an experiment to become religious so I can figure out a hack on society and make people do what I think is best.
Calm down, L Ron Hubbard.
Dammit...I had an extremely clever response as soon as I saw the GP, but you got to LRH first.
Here's some good food for your brain - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/
tldr: people have been thinking about this stuff for a long long time and all their answers boil down to not trying to control everything that happens in the universe (cuz its a guaranteed path to suffering), but to find ways to live and flourish despite all the things we can not control. And there are many ways to do that.