It is!
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I just finished re-reading a singularity satire piece I wrote, and I'm now convinced we're in a simulation
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Roko's Basilisk now everyone on this thread is fucked forevermore
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I for one welcome our new virtual-time-traveling AI overlords.
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Yep, as a firm believer in the singularity, this description is 100% true.
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@resnikoff uh yea, Charles Stross wrote a book with that title about the singularity https://www.amazon.com/Rapture-Nerds-singularity-posthumanity-situations/dp/0765329115 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yeah, but as Adam Smith might say, there's a big difference between demand and effective demand.
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IOW, tech might actually be able to grant the wishes that religion pretends to fulfill.
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Depends on the kind of techno-utopianisn, surely. Think of
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the singularity is bullshit and it also co-opted a way more important term (singularity i.e. the center of a black hole)
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Words can have multiple meanings, and black holes "co-opted" a mathematics term.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(mathematics) …
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