Silicon valley's machine mysticism. we should have seen the present AI culture coming, revealed in a 4 year old article.
"leading technologists had gathered. one panel discussion, featuring executives from Google and eBay and the CEO of a prominent US think tank, was "Technology is turning the world upside down—what's going on?"
I saw that these people were the evangelists of a new religion, true believers invoking the Promised Land with glowing eyes."
"In this version of paradise, software and technology will find cures for everything, virtual reality will enable us to live our dreams instantly, and ubiquitous robots will serve us and understand us better than we understand ourselves. A new benevolent super-intelligence will solve all the problems we created over the last centuries, from climate change to global poverty, while we enjoy eternal leisure, softly hypnotized by screens, entertained and served by machine slaves."
@holon42 They’re digital lotus eaters. Woof.