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."
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“The longer the panelists talked, the more common traits between Digitalists and the followers of all other religions became apparent. If you don't profess to Digitalism, you will be left behind; you will be part of a miserable, inferior, anachronistic species in a dysfunctional, dirty, analog world soon to be extinct; Hell on earth, in effect. Not an unrealistic scenario, if the so-called Singularity—the moment machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence—becomes reality…”
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