convinced despite being incredibly lame singularitarianism will be a major religion within a century or two barring technological collapse
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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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Replying to @alicemazzy
I consider myself a transhumanist but I think "singularity" is ill-defined. Do you believe strong AI or mind-augmentation def. won't happen?
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I have no opinion if it might or might not happen because I don't think it's possible to form a coherent one with current info
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certainly strong AI would depend on some unforeseen and presently unknown technical breakthrough
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I'm very confident iterating on or throwing more boxes at present techniques will not get us there
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Replying to @alicemazzy @Intrinsic29
entirely possible someone figures out something tomorrow that serves as a basis for such a thing, but impossible to predict
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as far as I'm concerned it's akin to alchemists speculating on how transmutation of base metals will change the economy
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