Why do spiritualists dislike basic robots?

[Paragon]

I can understand their mistrust of synthetics or machine empires, sentience without "souls", but why do spiritualists get buttmad over simple workbots?

Its a GIANT REEEEEEE fest too, because apparently the empire you live in having one robot pop is as bad as being racially impovished by the government.

[Cerebral Daemon]

Publicado originalmente por Blue Knight™:

Publicado originalmente por Cerebral Daemon:

Seriously, this made me laugh. xD

Where did you even get the feeling the pope "hates" AI and robots? You're talking as if he's fanatically seeing those things as the Devil Incarnate, which is completely false; a simple Google search proves it.

Seriously, this made me laugh. xd rawr

it was a joke my dude, im pretty much saying there is no point aruging over religion, and why in the game they hate robots

And yet you're making stuff up; a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. ;)

[Storm]

Rise of the machines...

[Blue Knight™]

Publicado originalmente por Cerebral Daemon:

Publicado originalmente por Blue Knight™:

Seriously, this made me laugh. xd rawr

it was a joke my dude, im pretty much saying there is no point aruging over religion, and why in the game they hate robots

And yet you're making stuff up; a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. ;)

what was i making up dude? i just said it was a joke :l

i seriously couldnt care less

[Donut Steel]

It's not simply a case of 'tools we use versus surrendering responsibility to machines'. For someone who believes thought creates experience which creates reality rather than the opposite way round, there's the metaphysical facts implied by the idea of artificial intelligence.

Less interesting is the real-life case of the Luddites; those who sabotaged factory machines and protested industrialisation in Britain. They're often mischaracterised as religius bigots against technology, but really what they opposed was the replacement of people with machines which cost those people their jobs whilst the factory owners pocketed the cost-savings and production increase.

For space-fairing religious societies it's not technology itself, but their world-view is that everything was ultimately created by a pre-existing conciousness rather than natural phenomena. Natural laws are only permitted after the fact, they can create only because they were created. Everything that maker or makers created is lesser than itself: they can not create a rock which they can't lift. The fact that they created something also makes it blessed; it exists because they made it and this means it should exist. This makes new forms of life or imitations of it taboo, because they were not made by the right hands. As cybernetic organisms or life-imitating robots are not blessed by true creation, they challenge the basis of the world-view. If materialist science can create beings which have experiences, rather than it being experience which creates reality. Who decides what should exist if every possible sapient being is equally valid?

[Prisoner 76561197992841073]

its like this, if you put a robot in the middle east, the tribespeople would all try to stone it, same concept in stellaris

[seabo_76]

Publicado originalmente por Zordrage:

No spiritualist Filth will tell me what i use my Sexbots for.......
i mean Mining bots... yes they just mine thats all....

Fembots FTW!!!

[Storm]

Publicado originalmente por seabo_76:

Publicado originalmente por Zordrage:

No spiritualist Filth will tell me what i use my Sexbots for.......
i mean Mining bots... yes they just mine thats all....

Fembots FTW!!!

If fembots were real and mass produced the human race would go extinct.

[The Hat]

Because it adds an element of conflict in the universe