Oh. Oh fuck. Yeah, this totally makes sense now. (This is a great thread, btw, you should read it from the start) - ThreadSky

vcdgf555.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Oh. Oh fuck.

Yeah, this totally makes sense now.

(This is a great thread, btw, you should read it from the start)

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)

Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

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wyrdnerd.bsky.social•2 days ago

As a former Mormon, the tech AI evangelism has always left that very uncomfortable vibe with me.
They NEED for people to believe and follow their ways, the preaching of doom and salvation through following their leadership and rules.
Even the rites and signalling they come up with? Yeah. Ick.

cflange.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

jemartinez.bsky.social•1 day ago

Revenge of the Nerds meets Ocean’s 11, but the cast are all assholes

terranhell.bsky.social•2 days ago

I honestly thought everyone had already realised this. As an outsider looking in, it seemed obvious. I'm more worried by the people who don't believe this, but use those who do to push their own agenda.

tommytwopence.bsky.social•2 days ago

I seem to recall reading that some techbros are obsessed with living forever, in a corporeal sense. So this tracks.

thenoodlecanon.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's not just some. A lot of the key Ai people believe this.

Some of them think that they can live forever by creating Ai versions of their mind.

jemartinez.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s like that really cheesy X Files with the emo hacker and her lover who end up transmitting their consciousness into a computer. So bad it was good

bobful.bsky.social•2 days ago

Singularitariansim.
A $2 word for the quest to make a kinder, gentler AI overlord.

bobful.bsky.social•2 days ago

oops.. Singularitarianism. For the spelling bee.

head-cannon.bsky.social•2 days ago

There is no quasi-religion in Silicon Valley about AI.

There are a few coked up billionaires who don’t have anything else going on so they pretend to be more important then they are. No one else cares.

This would be like saying the auto industry is obsessed with fascism because one of its CEOs is.

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