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Re:Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI... by phainopepla2 on Friday May 22, 2026 @02:43PM (#48239751)
> we should just be labeling it accurately to avoid becoming confused about what we are doing.

I think you are doing quite the opposite, and your overexpansion of the term obfuscates things rather than clarifies them. As another user wrote, there is a perfectly good word that covers all your points: ideology.

And that way you don't get the side effect of claiming that cultural food preferences are religion, since they also can't be scientifically validated.

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Re:Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI... by pickleRick243 on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:56PM (#48243437)
It's a good word to use because it has so much in common with western religious traditions.

This is a religion: https://hex.ooo/library/why_not_unitarian.html

You don't need to believe in Jesus, but you do need to hold all the right beliefs. Many self described atheists would fit right in in this church.

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