The AI community is locked in a doctrinal battle about its future and whether sufficient scale will create God.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

– Blaise Pascal

Religion is a funny thing. It is entirely unprovable in either direction and perhaps the canonical example of a favorite phrase of mine: “You can’t bring facts to a feelings fight.”

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