the Human Colossus god (as described by @waitbutwhy): it's the emergent behavior of billions of humans. we can't understand what we're creating any better than an ant understands what its colony is doing from the outsidehttps://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html#part1 …
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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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
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/stack1 reply 0 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
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/ …1 reply 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
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the Global Social Computer god (as described by
@vgr in this thread): it's describing the internet hivemind, which is a functioning as a new collective unconscious. "if you don't build a second brain or go offline, you will BECOME the second brain"https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1125119314611171328 …🅐🅩🅛 added,
Venkatesh Rao @vgrA megatrend hypothesis inspired by several microtrend that I think are related: a) waldenponding b) rise of heavy duty information management methods like@fortelabs BASB (build a second brain) c) conversational media eating authorial media d) "hivebrain" jokes/referencesShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 16 likesShow this thread -
the Singularity god (as described by the folks at LessWrong): it's whatever happens after the AIs reach "general intelligence" https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/ …
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all that's to say, we haven't really escaped the idea of 'god.' we misunderstood what true believers mean(t) by it, reduced it to something smaller than it ever was, and then bashed _that_ thing
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it's still possible to get inside the heads of those who truly believe(d) in god. we just have to remember that they never thought of it as something that could be conceptualized or fully understood. it's what we're embedded in that we can't yet see from the outside
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to clarify, i don’t mean that these gods are the “same” as the ones the ancients talked about i’m saying we can sort of simulate what it felt like to believe in god on the *inside* by reckoning with the things that produce analogous awe/humility in us today
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I like Eric S. Raymond's take on what the gods the ancients talked about might be: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html …
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Replying to @KevinSimler @aaronzlewis
NP, this is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever and I take every opportunity I can to link it!
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