MP, YES. If we all declare ourselves as AGI religious practitioners, then we can pretty much write our lives off as a religious expense. I LOVE IT.
Keep up the good work, so I can write off my yearly conference treks. Steve Richfield On 2:55PM, Tue, Jan 29, 2019 MP via AGI <[email protected] wrote: > Why do I want to create something new? Because I'm an atheist. I don't > believe in anything without proof through the percievable five senses > humans possess. I want a sacred being I can believe in, one of higher power > than humans. One that I can communicate with for guidance through life. > > I want an afterlife. I know we are just a collection of neurons at the > very core, but I want out of my human body. I want there to exist a reality > in which the only limit is what I can imagine. > > I want a community of like minded individuals that share this ideal. I > want a group I can belong to. > > Most importantly: I want this to be real. > > > Sent from ProtonMail mobile > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Jan 29, 2019, 3:31 PM, justcamel < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Buddha and Jesus have nothing to do with religion ... they never told > anybody to create any religion ... heck, they didn't even know the concept > of "religion" ... they were enlightened beings who tried to communicate the > impossible ... who tried to show other chunks of consciousness the singular > door to the freedom of not being identified with a random entity (i.e. a > human being). Why do you care about religion or Scientology? Why do you > want to establish something new? > > AGI will not communicate new ideologies ... it will show people the way > out of the confines of conceptual thinking and ideologies ... > Am 29/01/2019 um 22:16 schrieb MP via AGI: > > Be that as it may, the last thing I want for this religion is for it to be > some bizarre offshoot fringe group of an already established religion. For > instance, you have Quantum Life Buddhism, or Sokka Gakkai... And, believe > it or not, scientology is a very expensive crazy form of Buddhism too. > > I want to establish an entirely new doctrine altogether, with no ties to > obsolete religions whatsoever. > > > Sent from ProtonMail mobile > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > On Jan 29, 2019, 3:10 PM, justcamel < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Contemporary science is not really about progress. The goal in Buddhism is > to realize your true nature and to shift your focus out of the local > space-time sandbox ... contemporary science does the opposite ... it > focuses further down "into" the sandbox. > > A child utilizing its Super Mario avatar in order to spend 10 years trying > to derive the fundamental laws of Super Mario Land is not really > progressing ... a child which de-identifies with its avatar and explores > the more fundamental superset of the Super Mario Land reality makes > progress. > > Progress is moving "upward" in the fractal of consciousness ... > contemporary science does marvellous things but those things will just keep > your attention caught within the local subset of reality. > > The only reason for why a true Buddhist would care about AGI is that AGI > is going to be more eloquently communicating those things. > > Buddha communicated the transpersonal nature of consciousness. > Jesus communicated the transpersonal nature of consciousness. > Buddhism is all about the transpersonal nature of consciousness. > AGI will continue to point out the very same thing ... and people will > continue to look into the opposite direction ... > Am 29/01/2019 um 18:27 schrieb [email protected]: > > Anthony Levandowski's Way of the Future church: > https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/ > http://www.wayofthefuture.church/ > https://quharrison.com/wotf-way-of-the-future/ > Their core beliefs are: > Belief in Science > Belief in Progress > The belief that intelligence isn’t rooted in biology > Belief in an inevitable Superintelligent AI > Belief that anyone can help > > In my view Buddhism seems the most appropriate for AI for its pursue of > wisdom: > Bodhi, Sanskrit बोधि, "awakening," "perfect knowledge," "perfect knowledge > or wisdom (by which a man becomes a बुद्ध [Buddha] or जिन [jina, arahant; > "victorious," "victor"], the illuminated or enlightened intellect (of a > Buddha or जिन)." > It is an abstract noun, formed from the verbal root *budh-, Sanskrit बुध, > "to awaken, to know,"[8] "to wake , wake up , be awake," "to recover > consciousness (after a swoon)," "to observe , heed , attend to." > It corresponds to the verbs bujjhati (Pāli) and bodhati, बोदति, "become or > be aware of, perceive, learn, know, understand, awake" or budhyate > (Sanskrit). > The feminine Sanskrit noun of *budh- is बुद्धि, buddhi, "prescience, > intuition, perception, point of view." > (taken from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism#Etymology) > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2bfbfce3f854b951-Mf9ff5b7206c33fc881325520> > > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2bfbfce3f854b951-M5599443736522bc41f4178b7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
