292 - Jordan Hall - Artificial Intelligence in Biblical Terms

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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I catch up with Jordan Hall in light of recent developments about artificial intelligence, how people are responding to it and conceptualizing it, Ai and ChatGPT in Biblical terms, understanding the weight and ramifications of terms like "god", agency, angels and demons, wisdom, virtue, and technical knowledge and application.

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0:00.0	This new AI thing is even like more sort of, whoa, we're talking about intelligence itself, man.
0:06.0	We're talking about something that is, you know, every day, like you said, like in three months, it's just, and so that feeling interior of, wow, we're not prepared to deal with this.
0:14.7	You have to have symmetry between wisdom and power at a minimum.
0:17.9	And if we're looking at a magnitude of power over here, let's just call it X,
0:21.2	then what does it look like to constitute something that has a magnitude wisdom,
0:25.0	at least slightly more than X? Let's just hold that as the problematic.
0:29.9	In the Bible, there's literally a story, like the story of Solomon is about that.
0:34.2	The story of Solomon is about God asks him what he wants. God acts as a genie in this
0:40.1	situation. God says, what is your wish, Solomon? What do you want? One thing, tell me what you
0:45.5	want. I'll give it to you. And then Solomon says, I want wisdom. Then what does he do? He builds
0:51.6	the temple. He makes a technical space, but he does it after he's asked for wisdom.
0:57.6	So because of it, it's sacred.
0:59.2	It's a sacred space.
1:01.2	Now we're in the opposite direction.
1:03.0	Like now we're, we basically made a deal with the devil.
1:06.1	We've got all these things that are massively powerful.
1:09.1	And now we're like, oh, we should have asked for wisdom it's
1:12.0	too late they're like what do we do now it's like this is jonathan peggle welcome to the symbolic This is Jonathan Pajot.
1:30.1	Welcome to the symbolic world.
1:42.2	All right.
1:43.0	Yeah.
1:43.4	And so sorry also for last time. I'm really bad. I have an assistant now, but
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