- The Cult of Kurzweil
- The Singularity as Religion
- Rapture of the Nerds, Not
IRS should make things easier for the Singularity Institute?
Yes, absolutely.
So I don't see why you care about this.
I can think of two posts where teaching transhumanism in public schools is explicitly advocated. Hence, it is already being thought of.
that ultra-Orthodox Jews who insist for religious reasons that mice can spontaneously generate are being more irrational than many other religions.
Yes they are. On a tangent to that note, would it be kosher to grow non-kosher insects in apples as it would be thought they spontaneously generate and are therefore kosher?
Anyways, the point is that the assumption is made that religion is by default irrational when it might actually be rational. Some of the greatest philosophers have been highly religious. Also, mystical experiences are accepted as fact here as long as they are not religious mystical experiences (see benefits of madness) ( which thing most religions will tell you is very dangerous as there are beings that are wanting to deceive). So I don't see the arguments of this site being especially more rational than the most rational of religious people as being valid. There are also instances of people claiming they are more rational than Noble laureates which doesn't help the claim that they are rational at all.
the simple reason that religion includes so much.
The bounds of religion already contains things that have less of a structure of beliefs then Transhumanism (both as expressed on this site as well as described on the Wikipedia article).
I can think of two posts where teaching transhumanism in public schools is explicitly advocated. Hence, it is already being thought of.
Christianity says "murder is bad." does that mean saying to kids in public schools "hey, murder is bad" becomes off limits? A similar remark would apply to religions which have correct beliefs about the shape of the world. Note that even if an idea or set of ideas is subscribed to be a religion that's not an intrinsic reason to exclude it from the classroom. That's part of why in the US First Amendmen...