{"id":10372,"date":"2026-06-25T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10372"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:46:50","slug":"god-and-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/06\/25\/god-and-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"God and the Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, well. <\/p>\n

Our beloved Dr. Fauci made<\/strong> Covid, with gain of function research and millions of your tax dollars. <\/p>\n

And he will never pay a price for it. This world, this civilized world. <\/p>\n

Letting go, letting go, letting go … Never mind; what matters?<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

This should brighten things up. Meet Alex, of the O’Connor kind. <\/p>\n

I Made ChatGPT Believe in God (Seriously) <\/a><\/p>\n

He does. It’s deeply amusing and at least a little bit instructive. <\/p>\n

The moral is that once you commit fully to pure logic, rationality, and materialism (and ‘Science’, as we used to say back at the peak of Wuhan), you don’t really have a choice any more … You have to be a grungy Enlightenment Deist just like those blessed founding fathers. To a man, and oh yes, that Betsy Ross too. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Even better: He turns the AI into a Believer (no belief required, just the ‘facts’), but is himself essentially an a-theist, for a start.<\/p>\n

What Happened to Jordan Peterson<\/a>? <\/p>\n

I have, for years on end, avoided watching Peterson based on Vibes alone. <\/p>\n

But I’ve watched him now.<\/p>\n

The vibes did not lead me astray. I’m provisionally assuming it will turn out the same way with that Sam Harris guy. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Finally–and that’s a lie–we are led by the unholy algorithm and our own research instincts to this place:<\/p>\n

Hinduism, Consciousness and Advaita Vedanta – Swami Sarvapriyananda <\/a><\/p>\n

Alex interviews the Swami, who is also the eminence of something called the Vedanta Society of New York. <\/p>\n

That should keep you busy enough for an evening. <\/p>\n

I’ll try not to double-post for Thursday, but I’m not making any promises. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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