> One big difference is that the Christian rapture only rewards believers and punishes nonbelievers with eternal torture. Isn't this basically the same as Roko

> One big difference is that the Christian rapture only rewards believers and punishes nonbelievers with eternal torture. Isn't this basically the same as Roko's basilisk? It isn't really a big difference anyway. Both are pursuing an instant of uplifting immortality. The fact that the 'new' form is non-exclusionary is just like the fact that it's non-religious: unimportant. > Also transhumanism doesn’t promise immortality. Best case, consciousness would persist until the heat death of the universe. A very long time, but infinitely less time than infinity. sounds like a distinction without a difference.