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Put aside for a moment the question of whether computer models can accurately predict human behavior (which issue the article addresses) and note the background assumption of our social betters, who simply assume that religiosity in general (which they call "supernaturalism" or "pre-secularism") is a problem to be solved.
1 posted on 07/26/2018 9:24:33 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: edwinland

Athiests are the children of Marx, and the enemies of America.


2 posted on 07/26/2018 9:27:23 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: edwinland
Artificial Intelligence

Didn't Congress invent that a long time ago.

They claim it's intelligence, but we all know it isn't.

3 posted on 07/26/2018 9:31:41 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: edwinland

Atheists don’t believe in artificial intelligence


4 posted on 07/26/2018 9:32:30 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: edwinland

Watch ex-machine and see what secularism gets you in IA.


5 posted on 07/26/2018 9:34:22 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: edwinland

The problem to be solved is for society to recognize the irrational, illogical and arrogant intellectual ignorance in the secular humanist belief that all is knowable to us.

Our own experience in scientific research keeps demonstrating the opposite of the secular humanists ignorant arrogance.

Everytime we make progress, scientifically, whether just here on earth, or in physics, or exploring the cosmos, each achievement reveals an even wider window of more and deeper questions than our initial question knew was possible.

G-d’s universe is like an infinite onion with layers we can never reach, no matter how many layers we can identify. It is arrogant folly to believe we can understand it all.


6 posted on 07/26/2018 9:34:42 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: edwinland

Hey! They figured out with a computer what any wise man knows. Trouble gets more people looking for God.


7 posted on 07/26/2018 9:36:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: edwinland

What we are calling AI is nothing more than intricate if-then programming. Even the neural networks they incorporate are not AI. Neural networks merely memorize patterns.

True intelligence requires conscious self-awareness. Consciousness is a quantum mechanical phenomenon. You will never achieve it through software alone.


10 posted on 07/26/2018 9:45:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: edwinland

Paging Hari Seldon, please answer the white courtesy phone...

(That aside, this is hokum, we have millenia of history to show us what happens when religions collide. Within that historical framework, atheism is the weakest of all, and is actively killing itself in the world today. The only reason it hasn’t succeeded so far is because it’s been allowed to leech on the body of what had been the strongest religion. What happens next remains to be seen.)


14 posted on 07/26/2018 10:36:12 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: edwinland

The fascinating and arrogant assumption is that people are supposed to move towards « secularism » (atheism) as they evolve.

Of course, they’re wrong - the more we learn, the more we become certain that all around us was never an accident.


15 posted on 07/26/2018 10:47:56 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: edwinland

Well, I think most of us agree that if we could switch Muslims to atheists, they couldn’t get any worse.


17 posted on 07/26/2018 10:55:21 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: edwinland

bump


19 posted on 07/26/2018 11:15:29 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("I'd rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than risk peace in pursuit of politics." --DJT)
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To: edwinland

Imagine you’re an idiot bringing 50,000 third-world primitives into your country.


20 posted on 07/26/2018 11:55:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: edwinland

Because it is false.


21 posted on 07/26/2018 11:56:51 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Years ago, Wildman built a model to figure out what makes some extremist groups survive and thrive while others disintegrate. It turned out one of the most important factors is a highly charismatic leader who personally practices what he preaches. “This immediately implied an assassination criterion,”

I feel deeply uncomfortable that one of my models accidentally produced a criterion for killing religious leaders.”

If a religious leader chooses to put him self on the path of terrorism he has put himself outside of the moral protections of a life of faith.

Anyone willing to kill to advance their religion should be put down like the rabid dog that they are.

Putting such people in prison is counterproductive to which our American prisons systems give direct evidence.

One of the most productive places for Islamic conversions is the American penal system. Islamic evangelism should be banned there. Adherents to Islam should be segregated from the general population. Islam should be considered a communicable disease requiring quarantine.

28 posted on 07/27/2018 6:14:48 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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“The MODRN model gives you a recipe for accelerating secularization—and it gives you a recipe for blocking it. You can use it to make everything revert to supernaturalism by messing with some of those key conditions—say, by triggering some ecological disaster. Then everything goes plunging back into pre-secularism. That keeps me up at night.”

I guess we know where his sympathies lie.

People returning to their faith is a plunge backward in to superstition.

30 posted on 07/27/2018 6:40:48 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: edwinland
Artificial Intelligence Shows Why Atheism Is Unpopular

Having read the entire article I am rather disappointed that it really did not posit a theory as to why atheism is unpopular.

The only expression in the article that comes close is the theory that secularism is not advancing in the US as fast as in Europe because the national government does not have complete control of education.

Lucky for the Atlantic that there is no truth in labeling law for atricles.

31 posted on 07/27/2018 6:50:22 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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So . . . what was the point of this? Trying to find ways to sell atheism? Communism without the forced atheism? Religion bad, atheism good but only unpopular? And why does the word “atheism” appear absolutely nowhere in the article?

Utter clickbait.


42 posted on 07/27/2018 10:52:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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