From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, Richmond wrote:   
      
   > Ed Cryer  writes:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > It came up in the TV series 'Westworld'.   
   >   
   > And maybe the film 'Transcendence', did Johnny Depp become god? maybe he   
   > thought so.   
   >   
   > And in The Matrix, Neo was a saviour figure.   
   >   
      
   Let me also recommend the series Pantheon for the interested ones out   
   there.   
      
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