this won't happen with gnon or kek or whatever because unlike them singularity has elite buy-in and its advocates are true believers
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it'd be a little weird compared to christianity in that all its major/centralized versions started organically as gutter cults
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but really take off once ruling class adopts and imposes them down the food chain, this is why missionaries focused on leaders
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whereas singularity basically originates there. but way less weird than captains of industry or whatever picking up some internet meme shit
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also power-oriented religions are chosen/evolved to serve as justification for those in power, this fits very well in this case
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if there's one lesson to take from past two decades of "cyberpunk future" it is that we live in the least aesthetic of all possible worlds
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yes, baring the actual singularity, it'll become a religion
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millenarianism doesn't work if there's actually a rapture
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not supposing, hedging
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it's not a value judgement, romans felt the same way about christianity for hundreds of years. grandeur comes with distance
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Heck, L Ron Hubbard and John W Campbell Jr pulled it off. Why not you?
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Arguably this already happened in the late-19th/early-20th century: Marxism as a special case of technological singularity-based religion.
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Antisingularitarian (I suggest a sigmoid as our symbol) paramilitary when
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