Charlie StrossJun 26, 2024

Singularitarianism is a Christian heresy.

Same rhetorical structures, same eschatological mysticism, same specious teleological reasoning, just 100% less God'n'Jeezus in the mix.
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Jon Udell (@[email protected])

"At times, Kurzweil’s prophecies read like passages from messianic religious texts." Because that is what they are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/06/26/singularity-nearer-ray-kurzweil-review/

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@cstross I think it's a phantasm of capitalism: humans create a powerful entity (the economy) which proceeds to optimize the thing it was built to optimize by turning everything into paperclips (money) and in the process makes humans miserable. Attempts to shut it down fail, as it absorbs any opposition (political recuperation).
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