Human

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.

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.

I guess you fail to see the irony that your own eschatology itself is pretty religious.

More broadly—and at least in online spaces—I often notice that many vocal proponents of atheism exhibit traits typically associated with religious behaviour:

- a tendency to proselytise

- a stubborn unwillingness to genuinely engage with opposing views

- the use of memes and in-jokes as if they were profound arguments

- an almost reverential attitude toward certain past figures

There’s more, but I really ought to get on with work.