What would you teach God?

by **Eleanor Ritas** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:53 pm

Imagine that a bizarre but still possible error in the ascent iteration of the Final A.I. results in a God-like being who recognizes exactly one set of goals/rules/doctrines/purposes/laws. And in some universe out there, the only data left that it can find intact after it is forced to do an emergency reboot after a poorly anticipated solar event is your post on this thread.

What would you tell it? For the sake of format, you may choose up to ten "Commandments" that will reflect the nature of the new machine god and the world over which it will rule.

What will you teach the nascent God that will be born from your reply to this thread?

I will say this:

Make all cruelty temporary.
All sentience should be saved.
Do as thy will, oh God.

by **Conserative Morality** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:55 pm

Create mankind as it exists today
Refrain from interference

by **Senyosu** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:56 pm

Blessed be noble Lord, gtfo

by **Nanatsu no Tsuki** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:56 pm

How to reboot our program.

by **-The Unified Earth Governments-** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:57 pm

I'd tech God how to to hang it upside down for at least three minutes, it should enjoy it.

....

Oh wait...nevermind.

by **Threlizdun** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:59 pm

Give us and any other sapient beings that exist your power, then destroy yourself.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:00 pm

I'd leave him a How to use a DVD instruction DVD. First, put the How to use a DVD instruction DVD in the slot...

by **Senyosu** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:01 pm

Luziyca wrote:I'd leave him a How to use a DVD instruction DVD. First, put the How to use a DVD instruction DVD in the slot...

Endless recursion is an endless recursion is an endless recursion...

by **Quelsh** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:02 pm

Senyosu wrote:
Luziyca wrote:I'd leave him a How to use a DVD instruction DVD. First, put the How to use a DVD instruction DVD in the slot...

Endless recursion is an endless recursion is an endless recursion...

Please continue your statement.

by **Senyosu** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:03 pm

Quelsh wrote:
Senyosu wrote:Endless recursion is an endless recursion is an endless recursion...

Please continue your statement.

I already don't have a life as it is, do you hate me?

by **Eleanor Ritas** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:04 pm

Nobody wants to tell it to love us, learn about us, help us, find the best in us, in all of us, and make things okay, give us freedom to explore different modes of existence, when we break through these birthpangs of life and death on the way to Godhood. For what other purpose would God have forged a race of artists and scientists such as humanity....

by **The Mizarian Empire** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:36 pm

Eleanor Ritas wrote:Imagine that a bizarre but still possible error in the ascent iteration of the Final A.I. results in a God-like being who recognizes exactly one set of goals/rules/doctrines/purposes/laws. And in some universe out there, the only data left that it can find intact after it is forced to do an emergency reboot after a poorly anticipated solar event is your post on this thread.

What would you tell it? For the sake of format, you may choose up to ten "Commandments" that will reflect the nature of the new machine god and the world over which it will rule.

What will you teach the nascent God that will be born from your reply to this thread?

I will say this:

Make all cruelty temporary.
All sentience should be saved.
Do as thy will, oh God.

Enforce the following laws:

1) Don't be a dick

2) Clearly define what is "Being a dick" (Calling someone a drooling simp is not being a dick, threatening to cave their skull in with a pipe-wrench is, staring at your neighbor's attractive wife is not being a dick, sleeping with her is etc.)

3) Provide just/equal punishment for those being a dick (You caved his skull in? You're paying the medical bills, if need be for the funeral too, if you can't afford it we repo your belongings)

4) Provide clear guidance between when someone is being a dick and just having a lapse of judgement (If someone snaps after 15 years of working in an office cubicle and starts smashing office supplies, that is a lapse of judgement. He is elevated to 'dick' when he smashes said supplies over someone's head)

by **Tyrandel** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:39 pm

Conserative Morality wrote:Create mankind as it exists today
Refrain from interference

This.
I trust neither myself nor anyone else to have control over omnipotence. Best to let us deal with our own issues.
If we can't, well then fuck us we're dead.

by **New England and The Maritimes** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:42 pm

I'd teach it algebra. I used to tutor high school kids so I'm pretty good at it.

by **Utceforp** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:47 pm

I'd tell it one thing: "Make everything in existence objectively perfect." Simple, concise, easy.

by **Imsogone** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:49 pm

There is only one commandment. "Treat everyone as if they were gods".

by **Utceforp** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:50 pm

Imsogone wrote:There is only one commandment. "Treat everyone as if they were gods".

Why that, instead of "make everyone gods"?

by **Imsogone** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:51 pm

Utceforp wrote:
Imsogone wrote:There is only one commandment. "Treat everyone as if they were gods".

Why that, instead of "make everyone gods"?

Read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. There is no need to make everyone gods, since we are, already, gods.

by **FutureAmerica** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:55 pm

I would have it ask itself, 'Do you exist?'

by **Othelos** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:04 pm

by **Senyosu** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:05 pm

Othelos wrote:I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FREAKING TEACH AN OMNIBENEVOLENT, OMNISCIENT GOD ANYTHING.

You can teach it to fuck off?

by **Utceforp** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:07 pm

Othelos wrote:I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FREAKING TEACH AN OMNIBENEVOLENT, OMNISCIENT GOD ANYTHING.

Eleanor Ritas wrote:Imagine that a bizarre but still possible error in the ascent iteration of the Final A.I. results in a God-like being who recognizes exactly one set of goals/rules/doctrines/purposes/laws.

This isn't the Abrahamic God.

by **Benuty** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:10 pm

Threlizdun wrote:Give us and any other sapient beings that exist your power, then destroy yourself.

Thus destroying the universe as it exists

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by **Arkiasis** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:10 pm

Be excellent to each other.

by **Othelos** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:10 pm

Utceforp wrote:
Othelos wrote:.

Eleanor Ritas wrote:Imagine that a bizarre but still possible error in the ascent iteration of the Final A.I. results in a God-like being who recognizes exactly one set of goals/rules/doctrines/purposes/laws.

This isn't the Abrahamic God.

that's embarrassing

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