"For many of today’s technocrats, giving up our autonomy to machines is a gamble worth taking. This is despite the fact that many tech elites themselves place t

"For many of today’s technocrats, giving up our autonomy to machines is a gamble worth taking. This is despite the fact that many tech elites themselves place the possibility of a catastrophic outcome (“p-doom”) at very significant levels.27 But the technique demands efficiency and progress: if we don’t pursue this, someone else will, so it must keep advancing." It goes back to a much older disagreement about what comes first: spirit or matter? One camp believes that spirit/life is the true nature of cosmos, while matter is secondary. The other camp believes that life is only an aspect of matter, the doctrine of materialism in other words. Humans just happen to live between the two camps in this spiritual warfare.