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Re:Pythagorean Theorem Found on Clay Tablet 1k Years Older T... by carapace on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:42AM (#37780058)
> Examples include transhumanism, Yudkowsky-style absurdly extrapolated rationalism (Basilisk etc), the simulation hypothesis, AGI salvation hopes...

But those are all examples of ways to avoid spirituality.

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Re:Pythagorean Theorem Found on Clay Tablet 1k Years Older T... by pavlov on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:39PM (#37782338)
They are often ways to transmute spirituality into a form more palatable to contemporary sensibilities trained on technology.

Who runs the universal simulation? Another name for God. The eternal torment of Roko’s Basilisk? Another name for Hell. AGI will save us from ourselves with its incomprehensible intelligence? A cyber-Jesus. Moving your mind into a transhumanist body? Souls rising to Heaven. Etc.

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