https://www.fastcompany.com/40485668/elon-musk-is-worried-about-people-who-talk-of-ai-gods
Musk prefers to make super humans as opposed to deities. He wants to make sure humans stay on the throne.
Month: October 2017
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The multiverse is inevitable
“What is the Multiverse, then? It may go well beyond physics, and be the first physically motivated “metaphysics” we’ve ever encountered. For the first time, we’re understanding the limits of what our Universe can teach us. There is information we need, but that we’ll never obtain, in order to elevate this into the realm of testable science. Until then, we can predict, but neither verify nor refute, the fact that our Universe is just one small part of a far grander realm: the Multiverse.”
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The Last Invention of Man
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Silicon valley’s religious drive
https://newrepublic.com/article/145121/silicon-valleys-religious-drive
“Science is like religion, an effort at transcendance that ends by accepting a world that is beyond understanding,” John Gray writes in The Immortalization Commission. “Just like faith, reason must at last submit; the final end of science is the revelation of the absurd.” The chief hypocrisy of evangelical atheism is its reluctance to recognize the magical thinking in its own dogma. Intellect and religious feeling can co-exist, because that religious feeling springs from a place intellect doesn’t reach. The desire to transcend, to conquer, and to endure propels our drive to invent and maps our relations with those inventions.