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You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work (www.yahoo.com)

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[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 4 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

I despise AI, however, religious exceptions for work are stupid.

Go to work for your church/mosque/temple if it's that important for you.

If you're a Christian, live like a bird in the field, like Jesus says. Go pick through the garbage can and be content in your righteousness. You're reward isn't earthly, but in Heaven, right?

[-] Smaile@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 minutes ago

thank god.

[-] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

“You can now get an exemption” is a huge overstatement.

Someone in North Carolina asked for it and happened to get it from her employer. That does not provide any firm basis for anyone else to follow. Any of us could have tried this last month with the same odds we have now.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 17 points 11 hours ago

"I'm a Butlerian."

[-] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

But did you type that on your thinking machine?

I’m pretty sure that in Dune, all computers are banned, not just AI. You can’t even have a ship with a navigation computer.

[-] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

the golden path

[-] solxix@pawb.social 8 points 10 hours ago

Maybe I am religious...

[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

In a country where most states are fire-at-will. You don’t have the cultural integrity to effectively use something like this.

[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 173 points 1 day ago

This is something that The Satanic Temple needs to get on board with.

[-] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 day ago

Now I'm imagining a split in the satanic church, that is an AI satanic church and a non-AI satanic church. AI Satan sounds pretty hellish if you ask me..

[-] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 1 points 45 minutes ago

AI Satan just lacks the soul of regular Satan, you know what I mean?

[-] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 1 points 36 minutes ago

Somehow more satanic than satan? If one's goal is to rebel against Yahweh then forsaking one's soul given to them by Yahweh would be fitting.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 32 points 23 hours ago

FWIW, The Satanic Temple is different from The Church of Satan and/or the Satanic Church. To start with, we don't believe in Satan.

AI Satan does sound horrendously hellish, though. "You're correct, and you are absolutely right to call me out on it! I can see now how submerging you in searing hot lye would be unpleasant, especially after you begged me to stop! Here, let me try again, this time paying extra attention to not submerging you in searing hot lye."

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 10 points 20 hours ago

To start with, we don't believe in Satan.

Neither does the Church of Satan, to be fair.

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[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 31 points 1 day ago

This sounds like the plot of a Futurama episode.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel ANGRY!"

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[-] XLE@piefed.social 23 points 1 day ago

There is already essentially an AI-Satan cult. They're called the Rationalists. Unlike your average Satanist, however, they are very irrational, nearly theistic, and exert a lot of control over Silicon Valley.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

And then there's their offshoot, the Zizians, which are even crazier. The episodes of Behind the Bastards covering them were wild

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[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 127 points 1 day ago

tl;dr:

Maus is a Unitarian Universalist, a pluralistic religion that's rooted in the inherent worth of every person. In April, she argued that AI didn't align with her religious beliefs, citing environmental and ethical concerns.

Just so you know which religion to convert to.

[-] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

There were already 100 reasons why the Unitarians are where it’s at.

But I really don’t think this is reason 101. All we have here is someone who asked their employer for this and was fortunate enough to have it granted.

That means nothing for anyone else. There is not some national law that all Unitarians have this protected right now.

So yeah… you might as well try on grounds that it offends Allah, because you’ll have the same odds.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh, good. One of the few religions that isn't predicated on making all non-members lives miserable.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 34 points 23 hours ago

I mean, hypothetically couldn't you just pick any belief structure outside of the top ten and make shit up? I'm a card carrying member of The Satanic Temple (which also puts an emphasis on human worth and social conscience) and I feel like I could swing this.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 9 points 21 hours ago

Wow, you actually got your card?

They made no promises, but I sent my $20, never saw my card and that's fine.

[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 30 minutes ago

When I was 12 I wanted to buy the cert for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. My parents weren’t cool enough.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 9 points 20 hours ago

The goat ate it

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

I think you can literally purchase a membership card on their site if you want.

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[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago

Amish or Rastafarian should pass as well.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago

How about Pastafarian though?

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

Amish

That was my first thought before even reading! OTOH they would probably oppose working with computers at all?

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago

As someone who lives near an Amish community, the amount of them I see in Walmart on cellphones tells me they've got at least enough loopholes to be shopping in Walmart with a cellphone, so "working with computers" is probably perfectly fine.

...or you go straight to hell. IDK.

[-] StillAlive@piefed.world 2 points 8 hours ago

What's Amish Hell like?🤔

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[-] jtrek@startrek.website 15 points 22 hours ago

I've known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it's also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I'm getting old) and other social justice stuff.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

My UU ordained friend is a nonbinary activist who was in Minneapolis during the ICE shit.

The first time I went to a UU service, I was invited to a rationalist group that meets there.

It’s all of the good things about religion (ie - community. People who will meal train for you when you are in trouble, people who will teach your kids good shit) without much of the baggage.

I’m personally going to start attending either a UU or a really loosely Methodist group just for the social aspect. I think one of the failures of atheism is the lack of acknowledgment of the benefits of community and ritual. There’s not enough “third places” in the world, and churches can fill that roll quite well. Perhaps this is just my own recent near death experience speaking, but it’s good to have a community that cares about you.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 55 minutes ago

I'm out of the loop now, but when I was younger there was a weird divide between the youth/young adult stuff, and adult.

The adult stuff was a lot of traditional "sit and listen to a talk".

The youth was a lot more hand on, interactive. "Let's start a bonfire, write down our fears, and throw them into it". "We got people from the community to teach how to make instruments out of junk".

I really liked it when I was younger, and met a lot of kids who were very cool.

Maybe I should see what's on offer around here. I don't want to go to a "service" but I miss the community sometimes.

[-] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 9 points 21 hours ago

On a tour of our state's gay friendly churches (a work project) I met a unitarian universalist minister who was openly atheist, his congregation had no problem with it. That was a very weird but cool convo.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Time for the Universal Life Church to step in.

As an ordained minister (and fully-paid Saint), would highly approve.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

Are you guys trying to get religion banned?

[-] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

If you could ban religion, or ban AI, which would you ban?

[-] FukOui@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago

At this point, I feel like religion >> blind corporate loyalty. At least religion still pretends to care about people

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 15 points 16 hours ago

You say that like it's a bad thing

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 16 points 18 hours ago

It might help.

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 47 points 1 day ago

Guys I think I just found religion.

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