Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
Under duress obvs, more precisely the threat of being cooked and eaten.
On the other hand, when the Roman Empire legalized Christianity, I sure didn't expect that the Christians would go along with their movement being turned into the state's murdercult.
I am shocked. Really? In the beginning of AI hype, as a product designer, I moved to my routine. Research. You don't need a PHD to find people smarter than you and experts to explain to you what 'stochastic parrots' means.
To understand how LLM's work and why the hallucination is inherent part of the tech with "AI". Maybe the core problem is implementation practices which remove critical thinking and testing? Maybe the core problem is 'fake it till you make it' ideology? I don't know. But I am sure about one thing. This as any other postmodern technology will bring more problems than solutions.
It is not a conspiracy anymore. Problem - Reaction - Solution.
Start a war in the middle of Europe and Gaza. Tariffs. Recession - Panic - Digital ID, Social scoring, CDBC, Digital dollar, AI governance, tech feudalism.
That's all folks. :)
Let's be clear. The industry plan for surveillance state is completely nuts.
Expect toilets with AI analytical options over your feces and automatic report to your AI doctor. Transactional charges automatically included in your social scoring profile and carbon tax.
It's Christianity by a wide margin (about 2/3rds of the population). I'm not sure where you get the idea there are more masonic lodges than churches. Just a quick check for my state, Massachusetts, shows about 300 masonic lodges and about 4000 churches.
Pew polls show about 5% or slightly less identify as atheists. About 30% (including atheists) are non-religious. About 60% identify as Christian. Then a few other groups that are 1-2%: Jewish, Mormon, Buddhist, Muslim.
Your statement of "mostly" is an extreme (10x) overstatement.
I take umbrage at another aspect of your statement: "culturally Christian atheists". I've heard this pointed specifically at me by people saying things like, "You are Christian, you just don't know it." That say that because I tend to be sensitive/kind/helpful/low ego. Yes, good Christians should be those things, but that doesn't mean that Christianity owns those traits or that those traits didn't exist and weren't valued before Christianity came along.
If you asked the typical American protestant (who does NOT go to church every week BTW) if they really believe in the whole god and heaven and hell thing, a lot of 'em are gonna hem and haw. It's closer to a social club than an old school religion.
I don’t disagree! but among Americans who do not go to church, most of them have parents or grandparents or great-grandparents who attended Christian church regularly, and some of that culture is still prevalent in subtle things like “protestant work ethic”
Evangelical Protestants, Catholics, and mainline Protestants make up 60% of the US population. Atheism isn't that common, maybe 5-10% of the population depending on definition.
One Masonic Lodge vs 18 churches. Repeat that experiment with a bunch of random cities and you'll find that outside of the very high population cities (NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, etc.) there are rarely more than one or two lodges, if they even have one at all.
> I noticed that there you have more masonic temples than churches in every city.
... Eh?
The US probably has more churches, as in physical buildings, per capita than anywhere else in the world.
Freemasonry isn't a religion, though it has vague religious trappings, but in any case it's fairly absurd to suggest that there are more masonic buildings than churches in the US.
We all are trapped by TOS into data mining operation. There is no denying this fact. You don't own your computer or smartphone. You don't own your data. Practically speaking, we don't have an accessible and user-friendly tool to protect ourselves.
The humanity collective data output is weaponized, and the surveillance state is transforming itself to an AI governance.
Publicly announced by the WEF. And embraced by the masses, which have nothing to hide.
Moreover, this thing is labeled as inevitable progress and the only option is transhumanism and post human ethos.
Add to this incoming digital dollar/euro plus social scoring systems, and we are cooked.
AI is not designing good? How? The tech bros hate artistic minded people.
They hate design because it is the engine of growth and change. Tech bros like sameness and libraries. They love "design patterns".
But change is inevitable and design is not in the colors, fonts, whitespace.
Design is human centered practice for solving not only functional tasks but emotional. And for this there is no Tailwind, React, AI solution, or design patterns template.
PS: I am a designer and frontend engineer with 20+ years practice with my own company and plethora of delivered solutions for my clients. The divide between engineers and designers is the most persistent thing that I have seen in my life.
> Design is human centered practice for solving not only functional tasks but emotional
Having worked around design and UX people for a long time, I'd say there are plenty of design people who are practical and don't talk about emotional tasks.
So they are missing a lot. And this is the core of the problem. Emotions are practical. They are a part of human experience. You cannot approach design process as a framework documentation or recipe. Moving with current trends of double diamonds or whatever tools are fashionable. You have to be a generalist first and tap not only to the tech stack or quantitive approach, but also into a psychology and culture.
>Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new technologies and products.
AI is a big lie. The planned reset is the truth. ML is good for surveillance state and killing people. There are other useful things, but they are not enough to drive the hype train.
The digital economy is driven by faith in the "best" tomorrow, not by rationality or critical thinking. Rationality is faked trough statistical interpretation.
Bias is ignored for shareholders growth.
Progress is the new religion. A global Babylonian model of existence. In short: Dystopia.
The models behind the tech are antihumanistic. Transhumanistic. Posthumanistic.
