"I’m not Christian. But I was raised Reform Jewish, which meant I was unable to avoid being confronted by Christian beliefs — many of which look batshit crazy, to my outsider’s eyes — on all sides. And when I looked at the Extropians and Longtermists and Singularitarians what I saw was simply refactored Christianity, minus God and Jesus, with a whole bunch of new saints bolted on top. (Ray Kurzweil! Satoshi Nakamoto! Konstantin Tsiolkovsky!) And this similarity inclines me to adopt the same wary skepticism.Click the excerpt to RTWT. It's worthwhile.
I cannot refute the possibility that a hard take-off AI singularity will take place in the next few decades, any more than I can refute the possibility that the Rapture will take place at 9:47am next Tuesday and all the Elect of Jesus will go a-flying up to Heaven. But I think either event is about equally likely."
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