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> The singularity and AGI are apocalypse for atheists. I don't follow the logic of this statement. I'm an atheist, and while I don't believe there will ever be

• chr1 7y ago
  The logic is that people have always found ideas about the end of world, heaven, salvation, immortality, enticing. Singularity predicts analogs of these things in a manner that is compatible with atheism, so some atheists believe there will be singularity soon, for the same reasons some religious people believe the end of the world is near. I don't think that the above is good enough reason to dismiss the whole idea of singularity, but it is a good explanation why more people tend to predict singularity, instead of "viscosity" where improvements become harder and harder to do and AGI is needed to simply keep the same pace.
  • burnte 7y ago
    Ahh, ok. Thanks.