If this were a religion—it is, I think!—what would be its hymns?https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1251682994860908546 …
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Replying to @andy_matuschak
This movement has very little to nothing of the religious in it... it lacks religion's core function: "relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements." It is for precisely this reason that we cannot imagine any of its hymns.
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Replying to @marannelson @andy_matuschak
This is not meant to disparage the work itself: I stand behind it wholeheartedly!! But there is very little religious function here.
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Replying to @marannelson @andy_matuschak
I agree. Used humanely, technocracy has many useful effects, but... I don't want to worship either the steam engine or capital.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @marannelson
*nods* Would you say you identify with worshipping the spirit which created those things (and other Works—past, present, future)?
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Replying to @andy_matuschak @marannelson
I'm not quite what you mean. Do you mean can-do, optimistic, understanding human spirit? Or do you mean something else, closer to Maran's answer?
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Closer to Maran’s answer—the drive to create, to understand, to express, to synthesize, to transcend.
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