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Charlie - what are your thoughts on the singularity these days? Is it captured in one of your more recent books?
by sshumaker 11y ago
Charlie - what are your thoughts on the singularity these days? Is it captured in one of your more recent books?
- cstross 11y agoI'm about as skeptical about the singularity these days as Cory is skeptical about Whuffie. (When you look at the pattern of beliefs around the singularity they structurally resemble the complex of beliefs held by pre-millenarian Christian fundamentalists. They're equally difficult to falsify, too. If you conditionally accept the theory that atheism as understood in the West is a product of the Enlightenment and thus a Protestan heresy, then it looks like a bunch of the avowedly rationalist atheists have come full-circle and accidentally built themselves a tree house that looks uncannily like a church.)