Mustafa Suleyman

We've had a couple of years of large language models being out there and people get to play with it in the open source.

I still don't think people are quite grasping how big a deal this shift is about to be.

And then science came along and showed that actually, we really can understand the world through empirical observation and a falsifiable process of coming up with a hypothesis, running some experiments, observing those results, subjecting them to peer review, and then iterating on the corpus of human knowledge.

You know, I think there are many amazing things about religion.

Religion was a way that people made up stories, this is in my opinion, in order to make sense of a complex world that was confusing.

And that's how we've produced known facts

that are very reliable because they keep getting tested over and over again.

When something fundamental happens, we change our entire paradigm.

I think that it's unclear to me what role religion plays anymore in understanding the

And then science came along and showed that actually, we really can understand the world through empirical observation and a falsifiable process of coming up with a hypothesis, running some experiments, observing those results, subjecting them to peer review, and then iterating on the corpus of human knowledge.

physical world, or even increasingly understanding the kind of social world.

I think that, you know, if you look at the contributions in the last, say, century or even couple centuries from great poets and philosophers and musicians, storytellers, creators, inventors,

And that's how we've produced known facts

that are very reliable because they keep getting tested over and over again.

When something fundamental happens, we change our entire paradigm.

most of them have nothing to do with religion, and yet they've taught us most about ourselves and our societies.

I think that it's unclear to me what role religion plays anymore in understanding the

If you really want to understand who we are as a people, as humans, how our societies function, you don't turn to religion anymore, unfortunately.

physical world, or even increasingly understanding the kind of social world.

Some people will obviously disagree with that and full respect to them for their opinion, but that's kind of where I land on it these days.