[ExI] [cta] The Turing Church Preaches the Religion of the Future | Motherboard

[Giulio Prisco]

I didn't say that, just quoted the Motherboard article... ;-) ;-)

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Lincoln Cannon <lincoln at metacannon.net> wrote:
> Good article! :)
>
> ... Eliezer, who declined to comment before offering a passive aggressive
> comment that reflects poorly on his religious literacy.
>
>
> On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A balanced and informative article by Andrew Paul titled “The Turing
>> Church Preaches the Religion of the Future,” published on Motherboard,
>> describes the Turing Church as a transhumanist group that wants to
>> “curate the crowdsourcing of a techno-rapture” and “provide a literal
>> faith in the future.” Paul interviewed yours truly, Micah Redding, and
>> Eliezer Yudkowsky (who declined to comment on the Turing Church).
>>
>>
>> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-turing-church-preaches-the-religion-of-the-future
>>
>> Excerpts:
>>
>> “Based in part on the philosophy of early 20th century Russian
>> cosmists like Nikolai Fedorov, Prisco and his supporters believe that,
>> one day, we may, among other things, actually reach back into time
>> through quantum weirdness and reconstitute our “information,” thus
>> providing, for all intents and purposes, a resurrection. Once
>> reconstituted, we should be able to evolve into higher forms of
>> consciousness currently incomprehensible to mortal minds and
>> indistinguishable to our current conceptions of gods…”
>>
>> “Redding is one of the founders of the Christian Transhumanist
>> Association, a group merging millennia-old Western belief with the
>> most innovative, global scientific progress of our generation…”
>>
>> “I think a philosophy or religion should be a DIY project to build an
>> always incomplete, flexible, work-in-progress, always evolving
>> personal system of thought,” [Prisco] writes to me. “Just like a free
>> software project, which is a living project constantly revised and
>> improved upon, released incrementally, and open to everyone to
>> contribute…”
>>
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