novocantico (u/novocantico)

novocantico commented on Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf · Posted by u/novocantico

allears · a year ago

My friend, questioning others' beliefs while asserting that you have the true answers is childish at best. You need to go on the revival circuit, I hear there's a lot of money to be made there.

novocantico · a year ago

> questioning others' beliefs while asserting that you have the true answers is childish at best.

Then it's childish for you to tell a flat earther they're mistaken. The objective, historical facts are on the side of Catholicism, whether you want to admit it to yourself or not.

novocantico commented on Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf · Posted by u/novocantico

zeropointsh · a year ago

Just wrong, perception is the real issue here. The golden calf was not dangerous because it was a statue; it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function. That fate is not unique to AI—people have deified power, money, even their own self-importance. AI is simply the newest mirror reflecting our collective narcissism.

novocantico · a year ago

> it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function

People assigned it capability beyond its ability. That's the entire problem with AI. It is not intelligence. It merely mimicks it. What atheists call human intelligence is actually an ability we have because we're God's images. Making something in our own image and calling it a god is deeply biblical and culminates in Revelation 13:15.

novocantico commented on Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf · Posted by u/novocantico

allears · a year ago

Who's delusional? When you start off with an insult you've already lost me. As they say, every accusation is a confession.

novocantico · a year ago

> Who's delusional?

Every atheist on here, but more particularly, the elitist tech communities that think science is all there is to reality, when life experience abundantly proves otherwise from every direction.

novocantico commented on Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf · Posted by u/novocantico

zeropointsh · a year ago

Respectfully, if AI is the golden calf, then so were the printing press, the steam engine, and the microprocessor before it. Every era births its own Promethean fire—each time, there are those who claim it will unseat the divine, and others who bow before it as if it were divine itself. But in the end, all of these are just tools, reflections of human will, neither inherently sacred nor inherently profane.

The argument that AI is a false idol is a purely religious appeal—one that could be applied to anything humans elevate beyond its intended function. If AI is the golden calf, then so is wealth, celebrity, ideology, even the veneration of one’s own intellect. False idols are not technological phenomena; they are human ones.

And yet, AI is uniquely unsettling because it forces us to ask: What makes us different? What part of our intellect, our reasoning, our creativity is truly ours? But these are philosophical, not theological, questions. The fear is not that AI will replace God, but that it will challenge the very constructs by which we define ourselves.

To worship AI is foolish. To fear it as divine competition is equally so. The wiser path is to recognize it for what it is—a recursive artifact of human intelligence, built to serve, not to be served.

novocantico · a year ago

> Respectfully, if AI is the golden calf, then so were the printing press

Stupid analogy after stupid analogy. The printing press merely let us mass-transmit ideas on paper. The whole point of AI is to be able to imitate the human mind, through a neutral network created via software and data training.

I have no problem sitting by while fools use AI to create inherently doomed works of art and prose.

novocantico commented on Proposal for Standardized JSX vanillajsx.com/proposal/... · Posted by u/novocantico

dtagames · a year ago

We already have tagged template literals in JS (used in Lit web components, for example) which I much prefer. We don't need JSX at all because you can write html`<yourElements/>` and stick regular HTML or custom web components in there and it all just works.

novocantico · a year ago

Now I see why this proposal is doomed. The only people who could vote it up to the people who could understand its merits, are people with very low software competence.