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?'

The problem is that using one term to mean something closely related is bound to cause confusion even if you explicitly redefine it at the outset. I would really advise against doing that. And you weren't even entirely explicit about it; you wrote "Transhumanism, at least as expressed on this site, is as far as I can tell a religion" and then used "transhumanism" thereafter. It would have been clearer had you written something like "Transhumanism, at least as expressed on this site (which hereafter I will just refer to as transhumanism)", but even then I would advise against it for the reason above. (Especially because people often join these discussions in the middle.)

Added the parenthesis. It is too late in the discussion to go through and relabel everything in my opinion. Doing so would also require more of an explanation of what was being talked about in my opinion.

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