Jim

Thanks, Reg!!

Have a great week !!

Today is Darwin Day.

Thanks, Reg!

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

How AI could change our relationship with religion.

This isn’t a well-thought-out article. For example:

However, with the possibility of the creation of deepfake images and voice cloning through AI costing as little as £10 (using existing online tools such as Eleven Labs and D-ID) we might not be too far from more…

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Reg,

Remember folks Lent starts on Valentines Day. I am torn between having stale bread and cold tea or a meal out with fine food and wines. I will use my new Super Bowl prayer app to decide!!

Have any Atheists you know ever gave up Theism for Lent? That would be a fun read. 😁

I am tempted to download the app where James Earl Jones reads The…[Read more]

Robert, Jesus still has not replied to me so it looks like I will have to survive on fine food and wine while the Catholics can get cigarette ash stains on their abject foreheads to display their piety in public.

Reg, that prayer app should be called “Hollow” instead of “Hallow”. You even get to try the app for free!

Remember folks Lent starts on Valentines Day.  I am torn between having stale bread and cold tea or a meal out with fine food and wines. I will use my new Super Bowl prayer app to decide!!

Unapologetic,

I asked that same question when when Edward Snowden was in the news and, much to my surprise, the overwhelming bulk of data was still sent by cable and still is to this day, though this is changing.

The Battle for Bandwidth: Submarine Cable and Broadband Satellite…[Read more]

_Enco_ wrote:
It would make the cable companies and trans-oceanic cables obsolete

Aren’t trans-oceanic cables already obsolete?

There is a satellite farm just 5 miles from me that downloads ALL the Europe-to-US phone traffic. And most internet traffic. And there is one just like it on the west coast that downloads from Asia. (See WIRED mag March…[Read more]

Regarding the “Worst News Ever” article, I agree.

Beyond that, I believe (it’s only a belief) that we are alone in terms of what we hear coming from out there today. But…and most people either don’t realize this or don’t think about it: the universe is still very young.

Our own case shows that intelligent life can happen and there’s still…[Read more]

Need to measure the level of “affiliation” somehow. I think perhaps that measure is still dropping even if people are not dropping their cults 100%. Polls are all about “wording” of the questions. You can sway the result as you like.

Have a great week!

Good luck Enco.

Fellow Unbelievers,

I enjoy this Forum thoroughly and love participating, but I have several problems at once now that require laser focus to handle. I’ll try to be back here as soon as I can. Take care and keep on thinking!

Robert writes:

No doubt about it; but some way more than others. We survived until now by acting in concert. A naked human wandering the woods or plains alone is dead meat. We all join tribes one way or another and follow the trend; each to varying degrees.

No argument.

jakelafort wrote:
Does anyone doubt that mankind is amenable to PROGRAMMING? The maketplace of ideas can be manipulated to bring about intended beliefs. I am convinced.

No doubt about it; but some way more than others. We survived until now by acting in concert. A naked human wandering the woods or plains alone is dead meat. We all join tribes…[Read more]

Enco,

To clarify i am not saying every single human being. I don’t think for instance AI could write a program to influence us to believe in God.

But under the right circumstances and calculated environment civilization could be moved to believe that their forbears were troglodytes in the way they fought incessantly and cared so little for each…[Read more]