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irjustin ◴[15 May 25 05:02 UTC] No.43991997[source]▶
Related but an aside - Lately I've really been wondering if Skynet actually is the next evolution.

That humans, like all animals before us, are a stepping stone and there is actually no avoiding machine overlords. It happens to literally every existence of life across the universe because the final emergent property of energy gradients 100% leads to pure logic machines.

At least Fermi's paradox helps me sleep better at night.

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OccamsMirror ◴[15 May 25 05:26 UTC] No.43992114[source]▶
As a teenager I used to revel in explaining to religious people that I believe humans are actually just the evolutionary step between biological life and machine life.
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suddenlybananas ◴[15 May 25 06:04 UTC] No.43992260[source]▶
I guess you fail to see the irony that your own eschatology itself is pretty religious.
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1. lukas099 ◴[15 May 25 07:02 UTC] No.43992538[source]▶
It’s a belief about a great future change, but there’s nothing supernatural or totally implausible about it. And it doesn’t sound like they were preaching it as the absolute truth, but were open that it was just their belief. Also, no social rites or rituals mean that despite them telling it to people who didn’t care to hear it, I am not convinced that their belief was very religious.

Also, “As a teenager” implies more self-awareness than you seem to give them credit for.