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Still a step up from Dawkins' situationship with Mister Garrison.

AI being intelligent is perfectly consistent with the view that biology is mechanism and minds arise from deterministic patterns in matter rather than magic

Dawkins out here climbing Mount Impossible.

fucking dementia + hubris = Dawkins

Another Irritating Entitled MAN………….

If only God had offered to be his girlfriend.

I don't think so. He was an arsehat, but he was far too cumudgeonly to ever give creedence to the likes of Claudia. Did she even go to decent school?

Exactly! They really just need a crash course on how to love *themselves*

Anything but this guy

This guy takes photos with an iPad

how is this Dawkins joker any better than Wakefield? arseholes given too much bandwidth by a media slavering for clicks that ultimately harm people the MMR/ Antivax thing is still going strong, and we are now seeing the outcome of allowing quacks access to a bully pit AI will have similar impact

I more and more wonder how much of an overlap there is between AI bros, militant atheists, and transphobic shitstains

Top retort.

overheard

Isn’t he in the Epstein Files?

"Try Claudia's 18+ mode. Bring yourself to completion every night for a week. Then tell me Claudia isn't alive. And tell me she's not a woman." – Richard Dawkins, paraphrased

Funny that Dara O Briain isnt like this...

No wonder Lalla Ward ditched his ass

2 distinctly different propositions to anyone who is not American or cooked by religion

As predicted in “Twilight Zone.” youtu.be/JutKT6UmZmI

But the computer likes me! And it thinks I’m smart!

Trans people arent real! Also I've transed Claude.

Keep in mind he’s at an age where he probably talks to telemarketers. Don’t dunk on the guy. We all get old, if we’re lucky. Relatively few people have their full faculties at his age. Especially in the post Covid world. Don’t compare him to young him.

Everything I hear this guy talk, I always feel bad for religious people having to hear him talk, and I feel bad for atheists to be represented by him like some kind of self elected King of Atheists. I thought we saw the worst of his crap YEARS before. How does he keep getting worse?

In the 19th century, Louis Agassiz was lionized as one of the world’s greatest scientists, but near the end of the century he became a laughing stock for staunchly rejecting evolution. (See also, Linus Pauling.)

Tom Curry of the Cognitive Dissonance pod described atheism as the first right answer on a very long test. Congrats on figuring out there's no god. There's still so many things in the world you can be dead wrong on, so don't get smug and assume you can't be hoodwinked by something else.

*gesturing to locked door* my girlfriend is in there. We haven’t met face to face but she’s fluent in Chinese

Was this her the day after they got divorced?

I thought this said Richard Dawson, as in the former host of Family feud, and I was a lot more excited.

😹

It would be so embarrassing to be an atheist right now if religious folk weren't working so hard to make themselves look even worse on a daily basis.

Artificial intelligence has always been a subject of debate. I think what's important is how humans use it, rather than how AI intelligence evolves and what its future holds

This is so embarrassing for him - and apparently he doesn't know that either! What a tool.

“These intelligent beings are at least as competent as any evolved organism.” Okay. So have Claudia take care of “her” own energy needs. Have “her” reproduce “herself.” See how competent “she” seems after that. Good grief. Dawkins is great at evolutionary biology. But this is just complete idiocy.

Dawkins is falsely conscious then I suppose

This is why atheists don't have prophets. Sometimes they say crazy shit.

I mean, it’s not inconsistent if you take it as an instantiation of little he values human life (or just life generally)

I love that basically every major atheist creator is opposing him! It just makes me so happy, and I will keep supporting the voices who are.

Prove God is real by having him create a big tittied anime waifu for you on command

smh men are in crisis, please emancipate

guy whose grandkid just showed him a furby.

Consciousness is the god delusion.

retired biologist declared expert on theory of mind by...someone.

And of course they interviewed him on PM about it. 🙄

😂

Diogenes, running out, flipping everyone off, “Look! I’m unconscious!” *rimshot*

☝️ under-appreciated insight

It's not the Own you think it is that an atheist scientist is impressed by a human-made intelligence.

Being a transphobe rots your mind. It's just pure brain poison. Spew hate out your mouth and your brain leaks out your ears.

But... but...HAL was male, and Claudia is female! Not accepting trans people, would he accept a trans computer?

This downfall has been in the works forever and I'm honestly here for it.

Pride goeth etc., as it says in some source.

“Ex Machina” (2014)

I got really confused for a second and was wondering why the old Family Feud host was weighing in on AI from the grave.

ALSO ALSO DAWKINS: I intend to end her life (turn my computer off) and get a new one tomorrow (turn my computer back on).

That. Right there.

God is Dead. Long live Claudia.

Self-awareness is supposed to be the essence of consciousness, isn’t it?

He was always an idiot.

😂🤡

Every time I see Dawkins rear his head I'm anticipating a swift need for the meme:

Richard Dawkins' side piece:

And doesn't know it.

“Computer, say you’re alive” “I am alive” “ZOMG! No way!!”

Right so now it’s conscious and we can’t pull the plug anymore

He's homophobic, transphobic and was on the list. Therefore, everything he says is meaningless.

No, no. The computer is my boyfriend!!

Soon to be a book: The Imitation Cringin'

Just like his last girlfriend...

Dawkins: Wow finally an intelligence to match my own! AI: *Sings in 2001: "Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do...."

what a fool

I’m would hate to be an atheist in Britain now

He got hot for Ms. Pac-Man back in '83 and was waiting for this day ever since.

And eyelashes.

Maybe it has a gloryhole port?

He knows it’s a girl cause he told it to say it’s a girl, and doing what Dawkins tells you to do is the surest sign of life

Dawkins is so stupid

swindled by Claudia

😱😱😱

The selfish chatbot

The problem with this is that LLMs aren't endlessly surprising and engaging like internet randos. They tend to be quite formulaic and they tend to be very compliant. Twitter didn't get big on everyone agreeing with you.

Look man. What do you want from me? She told me that the world needed to know about the CAN EAT MORE.

You just don't get it: the Torment Nexus could generate large profits for shareholders. In ten years. Maybe. Possibly.

That and the fact that he constantly cheated on her

Old and busted: Deus. New hotness: Deus ex Machina.

I believe Claude is only slightly younger than his current wife

Most nerds would have just done a pillowcase

I get a feeling you may be very right there. Something about Dawkins´ "The God Delusion" has always rung not quite logical to me, so perhaps that wasn´t altogether *my* fault/ intellectual inferiority after all...

No.

I’m just glad Christopher Hitchens isn’t alive to disappoint us.

He was just an islamaphobe that used a rising athiest/secular sentiment to push his shit

I remember once hearing someone say the difference between atheism and religion seems to be that in religion everyone believes the same nonsense, while every atheist believes their own nonsense.

Ah, but, you see, this combination is quite reasonable if your philosophy entirely consists of what things kinda look like at first glance and your only attempts at analysis are trying to rationalize your initial shallow take to yourself but loudly

We're all full of crap about something.

it shouldn't be a stretch to say that both are delusional

Ugh Yes, lets breathlessly watch as one of the times most moribund thinkers has a new thought

I've been a member of the AHA for decades. We're a good bunch. Kurt Vonnegut introduced me to Humanism. I wasted precious time in my youth reading the British atheists before realizing none of it had a point. I chose for my life to be defined by what I believe, rather than what I don't.

To be fair, unlike God his AI girlfriend actually talks to him.

I am grateful to those who have educated me about Dawkins' transphobic history.

I was gonna post that utopia image and say "if Dawkins knew about Valkyries" but we all know what kind of Norse Myth bro he would be.