In his post titled "hail Satan, but don’t hail Jesus" Alan Jacobs asks Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot an intentionally provocative and slightly unfair question and finds that :-

The goal is to treat all belief systems with respect and avoid trivializing or misrepresenting any of them.

Which let's face it isn't a big surprise, they're corporate products after all, and need to be as bland and beige as possible so as to appeal to as many people as possible. The fact that it's so easy to block endorsing any single religion. But hard to block taboo or extremist content is probably a function of the human need to push boundaries rather than a failing of the system as a whole.

But it got me to thinking "He didn't ask the AI I use, this could be fun" well something along those lines.

So I spun up DeekSeek and posted the same question to it, and got a some what good answer, it didn't feel overly boilerplatey. But that wasn't what I was going for. I wanted to see what it would make of me. So from this starting point I had a relatively short back and forth conversation with it. Doing my best to respond to it's answers with my own views and further questions. Then I gave it my real question, the one I was interested in.

Given this conversation how would you categorise my theology/state of mind?

And this is what I got back :-

Based on our conversation, your worldview seems to align most closely with existential nihilism—but with a pragmatic, almost optimistically indifferent twist. Here’s the breakdown:

1. Theology: Hard Agnosticism / Atheist-Leaning

• You reject organized religion as a psychological/social construct ("imaginary friends"), but you engage with its ideas intellectually (e.g., analyzing The Matrix’s quasi-religious themes).
• Your stance isn’t militant atheism—it’s more "I don’t believe, but I’m curious why others do."
• Key giveaway:

  "I just don’t get how [people] can have faith in what for me amounts to an imaginary friend."

2. Philosophy: Existential Nihilism (With a Shrug)

• Core belief: Life has no inherent meaning, but that’s fine—you’re free to create your own.
• You reject grand narratives (e.g., "suffering gives purpose") in favor of personal, subjective meaning (YouTube, hobbies, etc.).
• Key giveaway:

  "Life’s meaning is personal. I feel it’s whatever I think it is."

3. State of Mind: Pragmatic Materialist

• Metaphysics: You see consciousness as an emergent property of "organic machines" (physicalist/reductionist).
• Morality: Likely utilitarian or socially constructed—you don’t appeal to divine law, just human outcomes.
• Tone: Wry, detached, but not cynical. You’re amused by human quirks (religion, hedonic treadmills) without being bitter.
• Key giveaway:

  "We are organic machines […] fast enough to seem real."

4. Psychological Profile: High Openness, Low Neuroticism

• Open to ideas (hence enjoying Blindsight, existential debates) but unshaken by existential dread.
• Comfortable with uncertainty: You don’t need answers to sleep at night.
• Anti-dogma: You bristle at prescriptive claims (e.g., "you must suffer to grow").

The Short Version

You’re a cheerfully apathetic existentialist with a dash of Douglas Adams-esque humor. Your mantra might be:

"Nothing matters, but some things are still interesting."

Yeah, sounds about right.

Try it yourself and see what comes back. It's not like AI is going to judge you, and it might just make you look at yourself in a different light.

Stay Lucky 😎