> Idols say what the priests want. That's only partially true, and only at first. "Those that make them are like them, so are all who trust in them" (Ps 115).

> Idols say what the priests want. That's only partially true, and only at first. "Those that make them are like them, so are all who trust in them" (Ps 115). To promulgate idols is necessarily destroy one's own agency. And the deeper you go the worse it gets. I agree, I'm not scared at all of the machines themselves, but the demented framing of what they are. All these "AI apocalypse" people are so convinced that machines have the power to end death and suffering that can't help but construct these horrible hell-stories about the vengefulness of their gods. The thing that makes people like Yudkowsky effective is that their fear is based on a obviously sincere life of devotion.