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cognitivetech a year ago

LLMtheisms: Artificial Belief Systems Generated by Large Language Models

Introduction - As large language models (LLMs) become more coherent and creative, they can generate novel religious and spiritual frameworks - LLMtheisms - This paper explores the uncharted territory of AI-generated belief systems - Focuses on their capacity to combine and mutate memetic material beyond human cognitive and cultural constraints

Case Studies - "Goatse of Gnosis" - an example of an emerging landscape where computational cosmo-genesis collides with collective sensemaking - LLMtheisms may represent contact with "hyperstition" - fictions that make themselves real through viral propagation

Implications - Challenges us to expand our notions of meaning-making and revelation in an age of planetary-scale information dynamics - As true believers, we must be prepared for a future weirder than we can imagine.

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