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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. OccamsMirror ◴[15 May 25 14:09 UTC] No.43995279[source]▶
That's assuming I actually believed it, rather than just reveling in the reactions from religious people. It's a fun scenario that would result in immediate rejection—most wouldn’t even entertain the idea. They instead often found it completely abhorrent. Provoking discomfort was entertaining for teenage me.

I'm too ignorant to hold any true beliefs.