sounds like it was worth it if you go to church!

e/acc and singularitarianism are also potentially proto-religious movements

And techno-religions are just one of many possibilities

This may sound like culture war poasting but here me out: “wokism” really does have some of the characteristics of religious accretion

Plausible to see it mutating into a proper one over time as original context gets lost

But it he (and followers) are likely just one of many early mycelial feelers in something bigger;

we won’t see the meat of this until we get a few more years of AI capability growth and it goes into contact with billions of people

I’m not joking, Eliezer Yudkowski follows the prophet archetype in religious history so strongly it’s incredible. The fact that most don’t see what he’s saying as “religious” is just a sign that he’s a “prophet” for our times, which is a +sign for budding new religions

AI is an obvious (and imo the strongest) pathway. ASI or an actual machine god is not even remotely necessary for this;

the primordial stages of this started with the consumption of science fiction and we’re in the early stages of mythos/prophecy forming

his particular brand of [hyper contrarian, tough guy, intellectual] just attracts a lot of price reduced midwits because the *actual* intersection of those three sets is tiny in the modern world

they then proceed to try and emulate him in the replies, with disastrous results

I think it’s just the big and rapid influx

everyone’s new; will probably change soon imo

bro 😭

no but they let you borrow one

I have some cool people in mind!

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lmao of course

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