"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."

Re:"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday." by VLM on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:27AM (#7845697)

Singularity talk by fictional-ish writers is just a cheap search and replace job done by people who want to talk about their theories of a monotheistic God Version 2.0 and don't want historical baggage and automatic knee jerk reactions from the version 1.0 crowd.

An even better theistic analogy for the singularity is the return of Jesus. Just wait till he comes and rights all the wrongs and banishes death and knows everything about everyone who ever lived and makes a paradise on earth for the true believers ... wait was I talking about the singularity or Jesus again?

(note that I'm not (intentionally) making fun of either subject, but trying to focus on the crude search and replace aspect of the analogy)

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Re:"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday." by mistakenot on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @12:25PM (#7846497)

I've long thought that the singularity is the tech version of the rapture.

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Re:"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday." by T-A on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @07:44PM (#7849206)

You may enjoy reading this then: http://craphound.com/rotn/download/

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Re:"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday." by davidgerard on Thursday June 05, 2014 @07:35AM (#7851339)

Atheist who can't quite get rid of religious fear? Why reinvent Jesus when you can reinvent Yahweh! http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

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