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This weekend at Dark Markets, supporters got a sneak peek at the core argument of my forthcoming book on #SBF: "Techno-Rationalism and the Denial of Death." https://tinyurl.com/54mrkj2n The Utopian #tescreal axis is deeply motivated, in ways that most adherents can't recognize, by an anxious desire to resurrect tribalist mysticism, the afterlife, and a transcendental eschatology. But they lack the imagination and strength to face the infinity of God. So they remake God as merely a robot - an artificial intelligence, the product of man's own imputed Godhood, achieved through rationality and technology. This began with Ray Kurzweil, who was more self-aware about his motives than most who came after: He wanted to resurrect his father. 1/3
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Numbers have a particular allure for a certain kind of mind: stimulated, detailed, anxious, unimaginative, procedural, and narrow. Numbers, especially calculations of probability, are comfortingly clear. They reduce the world to a bounded measure, with mechanistic derivatives. They also, as Sam found out, clip out the truly scary part of being a human in the world: Not calculated "risk," but true uncertainty. Numbers always lie, but they are very comforting when taken as the truth. Very comforting - and therefore, very dangerous. Subscribe and read here: https://tinyurl.com/54mrkj2n
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