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"Rapture of the nerds".
I'm confused about how to interpret your comment. Do you mean that people saying "Singularitarianism has some of the features of belief in a religious apocalypse, and believers in apocalypses are crazy, therefore Singularitarianism is crazy" is an instance of the worst argument in the world, or something else?
Yes.
Yes although there is a lesser form of that which is the claim that some aspects of singularitarianism (such as a bias I perceive towards predicting the singularity will come in your lifetime) are motivated by the same irrational cognitive whateverisms as religious apocalypse. (I don't expect the singularity to have as much importance or be as likely to occur as most LWs seem to)