Flagging for the "evangelical christians" stuff

goatlover an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The singularity has been termed, "Rapture of the Nerds" since the futurists promoting it sound like evangelicals talking about the end times, both with the Revelations doom stuff, and the utopian stuff that follows.

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shimman an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why? I was raised as an evangelical christian. End of time sermons are quite common, along with telling followers that they are warriors of christ. This doesn't seem any different than what these MBA leaders are saying "AI will destroy humanity, I can protect it."

It's delusional but it's quite effective, luckily it doesn't work on the general population but you can get a dedicated group of people, and as we see with the current government you don't need big numbers to make a huge impact.

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throwitaway222 an hour ago | parent [-]

Just stay away from it - if @dang allows it, then someone else will justifiably start saying "on par with shia muslims" in the same way you wrote your text.

	▲	shimman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I guess but I don't see how it wouldn't be allowed. Evangelicals have quite a stranglehold on US politics and have been influencing the republican party for like 40 years now. Trump Not being allowed to thread the connections seems odd, it's how we know what these same leaders are going to do next.