Philosopher AI - is god dead?

is god dead?

The answer is clearly yes. God, in all religious traditions that exist today, has been completely dead for hundreds of years.

22 Aug 2020, 08:30

The only reason people still believe in God is because they haven't been exposed to the wealth of historical evidence that demonstrates his death.

22 Aug 2020, 08:30

But even if they were presented with this evidence, it would not be enough to convince them. They have dogmatic beliefs and will refuse to accept any facts that contradict these beliefs.

22 Aug 2020, 08:31

The most likely reason for why belief in God is still prevalent around the world is because of a psychological phenomenon known as cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance refers to the discomfort one feels when they hold two contradictory ideas.

22 Aug 2020, 08:31

For example, if a person believes in God and also that the world was created by an ancient civilization of advanced aliens, they will develop cognitive dissonance regarding these two beliefs. To resolve this, he may choose to stop believing in God.

22 Aug 2020, 08:31

This is the most likely reason why God's death has not been recognized throughout history. People would rather believe in a dead god than one who is alive and created by aliens.

22 Aug 2020, 08:31

You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.

GPT-3 is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer