Ed Zitron

But something about this is really –

entered into the realm of religiosity.

Not even faith, because faith is a much stronger and more fundamentally sound thing.

This is religious cultism...

but the God is capital.

Like you can say it's AI, but the God is capitalism.

It is this idea that the big money people who are constantly threatening you, like they just, they're like, yeah, it's going to kill you.

It's going to take everything.

I guess it's Pascal's wager as well.

It's well, if I don't know if this is the case, but if they're all saying it, and if I'm wrong, Rocco's Basilisk will drop an anvil on me, I guess.

It's, it's frustrating, but also I don't know what these people will do if the bubble, when the bubble bursts, I don't know why I'm saying if, when it bursts, I don't know what these people will do because their worldview is built around existing outside of reality, almost like that.

Just this chat bot will become God will become autonomous.

And because I was there saying it would become autonomous, I will be given something.

It's unclear what the reward is other than,

And there's something in it for them.

That's the thing.

It's like, I guess maybe it's community they're finding.

Replace AI with God, just like with church, and they would mock whoever was talking about it.

They would mock anyone who took a sign of...

well, this is proof that God exists, but they would look at a meter study and they go, well, that's proof that AGI is coming.