[ExI] ai is the easy road

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Marxism should be classed as a religion.*
>

*I don't think Marxism was a religion but Communism definitely was. The
books that Karl Marx wrote were stupid but they were not so stupid as to
claim that his political ideas could be expanded to explain the workings of
the hard sciences, like the idiot  Trofim Lysenko
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko> did in biology. And some
Communist "philosophers" insisted that Einstein's Relativity must be wrong
because it  contradicted dialectical materialism and undermined the
material objectivity of the universe that their political ideology
demanded. Crap like that is religion. *

*>  a lot of wars in the last couple of thousand years can be classed as
> religious wars up to and including the conflict in Vietnam.*
>

*You could add 911 to that list, and without religion you wouldn't have
Arabs and Jews in the Middle East, you'd just have people. With the
exception of death itself, religion has caused more misery than anything
else.*

*John K Clark  *
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