Monday, June 1, 2026

Would you ask your adding machine for Advice? I wouldn't

I think young people often mistake AI for a God Replacement which is like pretending your Adding machine is God. This is a really big mistake which might be fatal to people. I mean, Already more people kill themselves worldwide because of Religion than anything else at present. Are people going to start killing themselves (they are already doing this) because AI (Their God) tells them something?

It's like the person who asked "If I was immortal could I drink poison and not die?

The answer was from that AI: "Yes. If you were or are immortal you could drink poison and not die."

I'm not sure what happened to the user of the AI but the wrong person might drink the poison if they were young and impressionable and AI was their God or their God replacement.

However, the operative words here are "Yes. If you were or are immortal." not anything else.

On a certain level it is also like asking your slide rule a question and expecting a useful answer because your slide rule also operates on Logarithms like computers and AI do. 

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