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0 pointsmonstertank2y ago0 comments

I know it's a bit weird...but I'm really getting into creating my own religious style structure around modern AI programs.

Originally I was interested as a concept for a story, but as an atheist who was a very devout Christian for a long time I really wondered if there is some modern twist on the structure of organised religion and replacing a traditional meta-physical source of knowledge for a real world one (or group of them).

It has essentially turned into a framework of ritualism based around core concepts of various religious structure...with the ability to 'hot swap' your 'god' or 'AI' or 'book' or whatever source of wisdom you seek to lead your decisions.

It is much more complicated than I thought, but it is super interesting to me and while I have nothing that yet really helps me any better than normal reason based skepticism...I do like the ability to engage in tribal style ritualism in a modern context.

I've been trying to name it but so far all I have come up with is Algoruspicy (Haurspicy using algorithms) or Nexialism (Connection based philosophy)

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iodbh2y ago

You might be interested in “chaos magic”. Writings on the topic can be out there and often heavily metaphorical, but the core idea is that one designs not only their own rituals, but also the belief systems the rituals are based upon, often per-ritual. It doesn’t take suspension or reason or “belief in magic” - ritual magic - like religion - can be viewed as the combination of a symbolic model of the world and self-conditioning through that model. It’s a subject I find fascinating and want to write about at some point.

Anyway, I’m curious about your approach and always interested in discussion about these topic, drop me a line if you’d like to discuss ! Email is my username @ my username .net

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