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[-] rook@awful.systems 24 points 2 months ago

They’re rebranding American Christian milenaranism. Much like the second coming and/or the rapture, the AGI god will be here Real Soon Now, so please pay your tithes and trust that the church fathers are doing the right thing.

Much like the older cults it mirrors, it isn’t capable of delivering on its promises, but it is capable of doing substantial amounts of regular damage in the meantime, and that’s the only thing worth freaking out about.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

Jesus 2.0 is an AI, and he's American

[-] cstross@wandering.shop 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@dgerard I dunno if you've read it but one of the wellsprings of this lunacy is "The Physics of Immortality" by Frank Tipler (1997), in which an astrophysics prof tries to square the circle of cosmological expansion and the resurrection through simulation, outing himself along the way as a very conflicted Christian fundamentalist who is determined to torture relativity until he can derive Jesus ... https://archive.org/details/frank-tipler-the-physics-of-immortality/mode/1up

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

oh yeah

and for the present, just how incredibly many of the rationalist subculture turn out to be ex-evangelicals

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