Nothing, except that people conflate singularitarianism with religion constantly, because to them it looks like just another Eschatology, which it isn't, but often sounds like.
Wired has spent enough effort making fun of Kurzweil that I'm honestly starting to get a "methinks the lady doth protest too much" feeling...
"The Singularity is the last trench of the religious impulse in the technocratic community. The Singularity has been denigrated as "The Rapture For Nerds," and not without cause. It’s pretty much indivisible from the religious faith in describing the desire to be saved by something that isn’t there (or even the desire to be destroyed by something that isn’t there) and throws off no evidence of its ever intending to exist. It’s a new faith for people who think they’re otherwise much too evolved to believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster or any other idiot back-brain cult you care to suggest."
"Vernor Vinge, the originator of the term, is a scientist and novelist, and occupies an almost unique space. After all, the only other sf writer I can think of who invented a religion that is also a science-fiction fantasy is L Ron Hubbard."
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-06 10:18 pm (UTC)Absolutely nothing. Wasn't that clear?
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:19 pm (UTC)Wired has spent enough effort making fun of Kurzweil that I'm honestly starting to get a "methinks the lady doth protest too much" feeling...
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-06 11:36 pm (UTC)"Vernor Vinge, the originator of the term, is a scientist and novelist, and occupies an almost unique space. After all, the only other sf writer I can think of who invented a religion that is also a science-fiction fantasy is L Ron Hubbard."
- Warren Ellis
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-06 11:07 pm (UTC)Hmm...
Date: 2009-07-07 04:34 pm (UTC)Re: Hmm...
Date: 2009-07-07 06:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-07 08:41 pm (UTC)