If you want to understand where a very large swathe of "AI" research and development are, today, then you very seriously need to engage with religious studies and mythology — and understand that I don't mean "mythology" in the pejorative sense of "falseness" or "fantasy;" I mean it in the sense of "animating beliefs," or "fundamental guiding narrative."
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/111528
Ohhh. Oh, wow.
It's a cult that doesn't even know how to recognize a cult.
In deciding we're all super scientific now and don't need religion, we're throwing an awful lot of spiritual and moral baby out with that superstition bathwater...
@violetmadder @Wolven but then being scientific has its methods. The fact that the huge majority of LLM research fails on transparency and reproducibility is a bell too many decide not to hear ringing. There is too much faith, and too little scrutiny. Ah, this might be what this thread is all about :/
