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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Honestly everything happening right now makes so much more sense when you consider how influential LessWrong and Slate Star Codex were amongst the Silicon Valley elite and techbros in general. They all think it’s part of an insane prophecy.
If you don’t know: basically they think that if they make AGI they’ll live forever because mind upload. Or even be resurrected. And yeah this is all bizarrely tied to New Atheist movements. You wouldn’t even believe me if I explained it further.
I am simplifying it. But the actual philosophy sounds MORE insane trust me.