Kevin Simler

the Moloch god (as described by Ginsberg and @slatestarcodex): it's god as the solution -- or lack thereof -- to all of our coordination problems, arms races, prisoners' dilemmas, tragedies of the commons, etc.https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ …

the Uruk Machine god (as described by @lou_keep in his brilliant blog series): it's the irreversible phenomenon of the market eating everything in a way that's making it alarmingly more difficult for people to have the social relations they wanthttps://samzdat.com/2017/08/28/the-uruk-machine/ …

The Stack god (as described by @bratton): it's a political theory that says we've created an "accidental megastructure" of tech power that sits on top of the sovereign system of the 20th century. the network of companies like FB, more powerful than govhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack 

the Yggdrasil god (as described at @ribbonfarm): it's a theory that combines norse mythology with anthroposcene thinking. describes how the internet has made it so actions have weird/unpredictable ripple effects around the entire worldhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/21/the-age-of-early-divinity/ …