Heather: That exact quote you referenced really struck me as well.
Bari did a great job trying to tease out his philosophy on the purpose of human existence. But his answer was a strange kind of circular logic - "Once you exist, the most important goal is to exist." To what end?
Listening to him talk about his Mormon background was instruc…
Heather: That exact quote you referenced really struck me as well.
Bari did a great job trying to tease out his philosophy on the purpose of human existence. But his answer was a strange kind of circular logic - "Once you exist, the most important goal is to exist." To what end?
Listening to him talk about his Mormon background was instructive. Performance (as he said, upholding the Commandments) leads to salvation. But he's still "performing" for his updated idea of salvation: biological eternal life. There's absolutely no difference.
He puts my own Christianity in stark relief. When Christ said, "It is finished," he meant it. No more desperate striving. Johnson's technological AI God will never give him an easy yoke or a light burden.
Heather: That exact quote you referenced really struck me as well.
Bari did a great job trying to tease out his philosophy on the purpose of human existence. But his answer was a strange kind of circular logic - "Once you exist, the most important goal is to exist." To what end?
Listening to him talk about his Mormon background was instructive. Performance (as he said, upholding the Commandments) leads to salvation. But he's still "performing" for his updated idea of salvation: biological eternal life. There's absolutely no difference.
He puts my own Christianity in stark relief. When Christ said, "It is finished," he meant it. No more desperate striving. Johnson's technological AI God will never give him an easy yoke or a light burden.