On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Alan Young <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not trolling, I promise. How is the idea of a singularity religious?
It promises salvation to humanity via a savior who will come "Some Day Real Soon Now", while offering no evidence that anything they claim is real. They use convoluted and mostly meaningless language to lure in people who lack critical thinking skills, or the insight into the terms being used to understand that the way they're arranging them is meaningless. (Or, people who just really REALLY want to believe that it's true, despite lack of evidence.) And they have a prophet, Ray Kurzweil. So I view it as a religion that promises salvation via our own technology rather than a supernatural being. Apologies if anyone here is a Kurzweilite and takes offense at my admittedly brusque handling of your beliefs. It is not my intention to lump anyone here (or your friends or relatives) in with those lacking critical thinking skills or insight into technology. It's all those faceless, unnamed masses that believe who get put in that category ;-) -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
