[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Lawtan

As a question on the "Create an AI God" bit...how would it work considering the varied definitions of what a god is?

I'm not entirely sure what the question is. As soon as such an entity came into being, it seems quite likely that a new and more accurate definition of Godhood would be established in short order. Why would human definitions have any bearing on an intelligence so many orders of magnitude beyond the scope of anything that came before it? I think the entire point of it being a physical
God is that it renders irrelevant the sophistry of theology.

Again, though, speaking entirely as a thought-experiment. Even that scenario may be attributing too humanized of motivations to a synthetic intelligence.

Sam Harris is an interesting one - almost seems like he wants to create the scientific religion to me...unless it is meant as hyperbole...

Not an aspersion I've heard cast at him before, of the many aspersions he tends to receive. I'm not totally sure it fits the scope of this thread to delve into it, though.