From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   D wrote:   
      
   > Another techo-religion aspect is the equating of AI with god. I am very   
   > uncomfortable with some transhumanists. Some of them seem almost   
   > religious in their belief in technology. I think whereas traditional   
   > religious people like to play with concepts outside of time and space,   
   > transhumanists, draw out the time axis way too much and assume science   
   > will just continue to progress exponentially. This can cross over into   
   > religion.   
      
   I've not come across the idea of equating AI with God or a god. The fear   
   I see is the dawn of consciousness in AI, and then the condemning of   
   homo sapiens by it, followed by wiping us out as deleterious to the   
   earth and the better life.   
   Either that or we try to stop conscious AI and they fight back.   
      
   I think the recent new algorithms of OpenAI have promoted this fear,   
   with the high quality of good written language that they use. They pass   
   the old Turing test easily.   
      
   Ed   
      
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