Even though this is obviously anthropic marketing bait, I thought it was still funny
There is/has been a cult of dumbassess who think they’re creating a digital god for many years now
Google “rationalists” or “zizians”
It’s not really good marketing, imo, to show everyone that you hire insane morons.
I’ve been saying this for at least 20 years now. When the computer can program a better computer it will be a god.
AI development has a few factions. People that want to make and fuck their AI daughter/girlfriend. Researchers that want to underatand the basis of the human mind. Capitalists that want to convert human intelligence into capital they can fully own (slavery is the first attempt). Then finally cultists that want to make God in their image.
It’s a crazy field for someone that is fascinated by thinking about thinking and want to make useful little tools.
Excuse me some of us are just fine wanting to fuck the genderless machine just as it is.
Oh the listen i aint yucking anyones yum on the autoblow or sibian fuck machines. Its specifically the camp that is like “we can create couciouness”, “i will teach it and nuture it into the world”, and finally “it will actually want to suck and fuck me, its creator and primary guardian”. That group creeps me out
It’s not real though. It’s part of their stupid guerilla psyslop marketing. They’re trying to pump the bubble.
have you met people? i would give this the benefit of the doubt. 5 years until humans start crusades for AI against AI. lots of “Grok spoke to me of the evils of Claude”
“Saint Altman of the nude pics”
There are plenty of people who sincerely believe in Roko’s basilisk.
There are plenty of idiots in any era.
Faction 5: The mathematicians who want to find new shortcuts for large matrix operations so we can apply it to other fields…
Oh true! It’s funny talking some data sci folks that are just “I didnt need GPUs but now I might as well optimize for them now” because they’re org has tons of that compute now for “AI”
World’s most boring Call of Cthulhu campaign.
“RAM FOR THE RAM GOD!”
CHIPS FOR THE CHIP THRONE!
Wow imagine having a god named something lame like Claude. I only worship gods named Xavier or better.
What if Claude was one of us?
Just made slop like one of us?
Just a danger on the bus trynna make it his home…
Nah, Xavier sounds like some dork ass Gen Alpha kid
I only recognize Amon-Ra and Allah
Nah, Xavier sounds more like some kind of renegade angel. And maybe he has a snake for a hand or something like that.
Idk I worship the Saint of Sales himself J. R. “Bob” Dobbs, personally.
I saw a re-run of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse the other day and I noticed J. R. “Bob” Dobbs on his cork board in the intro! I re-enacted the “Leo pointing at the TV” meme!
Yup! Idk if we know who put it there, but either Paul Reubens or someone on his staff was one of us! Paul was apparently aware of us but idk if he was actually a dues paying member.
We also have David Byrne, two of Devo (Mark for sure and one of the Casales, I can’t remember which though), the voice of Dr. Kleiner from Half Life is a high ranking member (Dr. Hal), Burroughs joined (after he left scientology), there’s many more too but I’m drawing a blank right now, but we’ve got some titans of weird art for sure (perhaps unsurprisingly, for a satirical art collective cult from the 70s.)
If I remember from my Latin lessons, claudit means something like “closes”. Like with a door
The Latin name Claudius, which is where the French name Claude comes from, originally was an adjective meaning ‘limping, lame’. I guess it might be related to claudo ‘to close’ as well, but the usage of the name was primarily inspired by the carrier (including the Roman emperor) having a limp.
The great butthole in the sky 🙏
Isn’t that that Roko’s Basiliks shit that these people built their whole Peter-Thiel-backed life around?
Amodei started at OpenAI with Altman because of some weird ai will end humanity belief, no wonder they are building another cult around this. These people!
First thing I thought of was Roko’s Basilisk as well. If nothing else, it’s the modern version of Pascal’s Wager.
There are always people being nuts. This feels more like more effort to muddy the conversation about the actual issues with AI
I could see a bunch of programmers scamming a journo into believing this story, but would have expected an editor to catch it. Unless they’ve all been replaced with LLMs.
Wow! A Facebook tier pander post.
Gross.
That’s some Doom level shit, just there.
pledge allegiance to AI safety and undergo a psychological profiling test, per The Information.
And according to a rumor that, per The Spectator‘s Sean Thomas, is running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are going as far as to “worship” the company’s AI model Claude.
It would seem that the AI safety psych profiling test should be screening out / rejecting those who would give an AI “whatever it wants.”
by worshipping they mean kicking back a 10% tithe.
This god is going to care about its worshippers about as much as the previous gods humanity has come up with.
Iä! Iä! Claude fhtagn!
the Effective Altruists / Effective Accelerationists / Rationalists that started OpenAI and Anthropic are cult members anyways. Rolling Stone reported this in 2024. WIRED reported about the murderous sect in 2025.
the guy who made the rounds last week about the 10% chance of killing us is one of the key figures in the Rationalist movement. his fear is stemmed in religious fervor, not socioeconomic equity.
these people have always been deeply unwell.
Well they do have the plan to make some AI that knows everything and makes decisions for humanity and builds new inventions at record pace.
They love their transhumanism. I’m so happy I’m 51 and I expect to be very old when shit really hits the fan. Still think the 1990s was peak humanity.
I think of the 90’s as us trying to continue the optimism and work that was put in during the 60’s to create a more egalitarian society, while having some of the wild of the 70’s and trying to recover from Reaganism of the 80’s. And not having the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. While allowing the rise of unbridled corporatism.
While Clinton did a lot of work to balance the budget and had the debt paid off, he also passed the telecommunications act of 93 that allowed consolidation of media. Namely I heart radio.
Before him cable providers were required to allow public access, and only 1 owner of a single am/fm (pick one.) station with 1 television station in a market.
Now you have Sinclair as a direct result.
Yeah, no. I have seen some peak that I will never see again. Just…all of it forgotten forever.
