convinced despite being incredibly lame singularitarianism will be a major religion within a century or two barring technological collapse
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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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Future-oriented religions seem to outcompete past and present-oriented ones.
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what's the major spiritual malfunction that simulationist singularitarianism wld fix though
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Simulationism is in this model competing with singularitarianism, and losing.
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no way. they go together.
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Only intellectually. Emotionally they work quite differently.
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immortality and getting to live on the holodeck are a big draw
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What is supposedly so wrong with it? Its just extrapolation of the advances on informatics.
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I'm convinced that there are already working human-like AIs, but not open to the public due to ethical and legal reasons.
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I once had a fictional faction called the Church of the Strong God that believed it was their duty to invent their own retrocausal AI God.
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