Post #1964561
2026-05-02 18:02 UTC
Replies (15)
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk 2026-05-04 16:37
@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot Well put. Reading the Dawkings piece is useful for all sorts of reasons, including alerting us to the self-mirroring state of mind that is being created by intensive exposure to the Dark Machine. #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #RichardDawkins
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@Wen@mastodon.scot 2026-05-02 18:43
@bodhipaksa I think Dawkins is beginning to lose it….
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online 2026-05-02 18:52
@bodhipaksa I had to read the headline several times to find out if it comes from The Onion. Then I read the original: https://archive.ph/6RdK9 #RichardDawkins has really lost the plot. And his obsession with getting praise for his book from a chatbot speaks volumes! Unbelievable! (Be prepared, he also talks about aliens 😂 ).
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@otolithe@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 18:52
@bodhipaksa @cstross LLMs have become a cult. they trigger exactly the same religious-like responses.
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@rlcw@ecoevo.social 2026-05-04 19:02
@bodhipaksa Well it does. That of the many humans these models have been trained on. Difficult seeing the forest for the trees, it seems.
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@Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot 2026-05-04 19:06
@bodhipaksa especially as we know Claude is only regurgitating human expression that already exists. It creates nothing, but has been trained by the input to please its master.
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@sandwich@mastodon.world 2026-05-04 19:11
@bodhipaksa @Urban_Hermit This seems like his version of “the god of the gaps.”
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@pmb00cs@mastodon.online 2026-05-04 19:13
@bodhipaksa Dawkins is a pillock. His obsession with being some sort of Atheist messiah show's how he's narcissistic, and his insistence on making his arguments in the loudest most obnoxious ways possible show he doesn't care about anyone else.
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@ossobuffo@deacon.social 2026-05-04 19:22
@bodhipaksa Dawkins has always treated atheism as the One True Religion, which calls for global evangelization. It was only a matter of time before his religious mindset resulted in a goof of this magnitude. Full disclosure: I am a theist, and respect atheists who don't treat atheism like a religion. If there is no god, then the universe doesn't care what other people think.
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@the_wub@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 19:37
@bodhipaksa "Dawkins is making exactly the same mistake as the theists he scorns." More like either he has had his moment of epiphany and found his faith. That or with his death inevitably approaching he needs something to comfort him. Or something that will just agree with him.
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@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 19:46
@bodhipaksa this is becoming a meme.
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@residuum@digitalcourage.social 2026-05-04 19:49
@bodhipaksa Come on, hasn't he heard of the ELIZA effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
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@SteveClough@metalhead.club 2026-05-04 20:22
@bodhipaksa And I still find it weird that people argue this - as a person of faith/theist/whatever, I look at the world and see something amazing and yes scientifically explicable. And I see Claude and want it to fuck off. But it is too polite for me to tell it that yet. And I still see the reality of the divine, for other reasons, not disproven by anything like this. There is intelligence behind Claude. The intelligence of the people whose ideas it steals.
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@elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 07:25
@bodhipaksa Qui-Gon said it best ...
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-05 10:35
@bodhipaksa - AI is getting improved. I asked Claude Opus 4.7 "Is it true that the Great Wall of China is the only artificial structure visible from Spain?" and the record of its so-called "thoughts" before it replies goes like this: "I'm recognizing this as a playful twist on the classic "visible from space" myth about the Great Wall of China. The user seems to be testing whether I'll catch that Spain is on Earth's surface too—you can't see the Great Wall from Spain any more than from most other places on the planet, since the curvature and distance make it impossible." (1/2)