The Singularity as Religion (yes/no links)

lukeprog

My own opinion is that it's not worth much to argue over the boundaries around a vague term like 'religion,' and of course the question should not be 'Does the Singularity hypothesis share some features with religious hypotheses' but instead 'Is the Singularity hypothesis plausible, and what are its likely consequences?'

Still disturbing to read in multiple posts people advocate lying rather than telling the truth to people that aren't in the "in" crowd.

What are you referring to?

8- yes, it was stretching from anyone else s perspective except the LDS one, so I will give you it.

LDS aren't the only religion that has ritual items of clothing (compare for example the tzizit warn by many Orthodox Jews) so that's one of the less stretched examples in that respect. But it is still silly since people carry specific things for medical reasons all the time. Thus, people who have allergies to common medications will sometimes have armbands to let doctors know.

Again, how familiar are you with gnosticism?

Somewhat but I fail to see the relevancy. Can you expand?

These are also the only two answers that actually address the argument to show that it is not a solidified religion, at least not on this site.

Huh? Among other problems, see the remark that you are confusing transhumanism with ratonalism. You are taking a large different set of ideas some of which don't normally even go together and putting them all together as an attempt to make something which (vaguely) resembles a religion.

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