If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest?
If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest? Posted on Aug 30, 2026 · 4 min read ai religion coding I’ve been thinking a lot about AGI lately, which means a lot of things to many people. It can be anything from a true, human-equivalent reasoning machine to something more akin to a God - so far ahead of us as to be a qualitative leap in intelligence.
- ▪If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest?
- ▪Posted on Aug 30, 2026 · 4 min read ai religion coding I’ve been thinking a lot about AGI lately, which means a lot of things to many people.
- ▪It can be anything from a true, human-equivalent reasoning machine to something more akin to a God - so far ahead of us as to be a qualitative leap in intelligence.
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If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest? Posted on Aug 30, 2026 · 4 min read ai religion coding I’ve been thinking a lot about AGI lately, which means a lot of things to many people. It can be anything from a true, human-equivalent reasoning machine to something more akin to a God - so far ahead of us as to be a qualitative leap in intelligence. I’m actually more inclined to believe we’ll leapfrog the first and arrive at the second. And this is why: We have the power to throw more inputs - training, data, electricity - to force more output, with AI, than we can with the human brain. You can’t house two pizzas and somehow raise your IQ with the extra calories, as tantalizing as that possibility would be.
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