It's a "Lava Basalisk".

EDIT: See here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Template_talk:LessWrong

Picture of Lava Basalisk, as noted by Oscar_Cunningham, linking to the concept of Roko's Basilisk, which is a large point of interest for RW users.

The difference between a monster and a god is in your point of view, unless it's a sexless, lifeless husk like the Abrahamic religion's God, or some other platonic ideal. The cyborg seems likely to be a reference/confusion to the Singularity as Rapture of the Nerds, where we become as gods, a large misunderstanding of what it seems most here hop for, an AI np more conscious than a chair that makes us what we would want to be if we were more what we want to be.

Why ate you spending time on RationalWiki? I know LessWrong has gone downhill but there are still interesting books, and blogs, and people.