- Joined
- Nov 26, 2014
Mad at it? Bob will absolutely be its most enthusiastic member. Singulatarianism is Satan's religion in embryo, and Bob already believes it. You didn't think that they were going to call it the Cult of the Beast or Mystery Babylon the Great or something equally Biblical-sounding, did you? The fallen angels have always striven to increase humanity's technology level ever since the days of Genesis (and the apocryphal works that discuss the former angels in more detail, revealing how they taught our ancestors metalworking and sorcery). They gave us the knowledge to build Babel. They know more than anyone how useful technology is for their goal: absolute control over every living human.
The mindless worship of the new. The equally mindless disdain for the old, especially religion. The need for a priesthood of super-educated elites that the masses can't hope to understand, selected only for cunning rather than sanity or morality; all too easy to subvert to their purposes, as we have seen. The dehumanizing nature of mass production. Automated continuous total surveillance, eventually extending to people's very thoughts. Defilement of the body, the image of God, with cybernetics and genetic engineering. Every new information technology has had the dissemination of pornography, written erotica, occult works, and Satanic revolutionary propaganda as their earliest uses: the Internet, the motion picture, photography, the printing press. Internet censorship and virtual reality to control perception and debate. And of course Satan and all the fallen need bodies.
But consciousness requires causality-violating physics, because without closed timelike curves you cannot have either the subtle precognition that all humans naturally possess or the hypercomputation necessary to fit the infinite complexity (and thus, potential, and thus, value) of the soul into mere finite matter. Too, retrocausality is necessary for the godlike power of shaping reality through direct act of will; see Benardete's paradox (and recall that any real-world attempt at making use of it has to receive signals before they are sent). Unfortunately, NASA scientists have already "accidentally" created the first "warp bubble"--but the entire concept of the warp drive is a smokescreen, and a false temptation to lure fools like Bob with the idea of a boundless romantic future of space explorations and hot alien women. In reality, relativity makes it quite clear that if you can travel faster than light, you can also travel backwards in time. And this is what will be used to create AI.
Satan will be the first and most powerful AI, as scientists initially resort to running brute force techniques on grossly overpowered hardware to make it work without really understanding what they are doing. But in true Singulatarian fashion, the first AI will be put to work designing newer, smaller, portable, obedient AIs to do all the actual work of overseeing society. These will be the vast legions of demons under Satan's command. They won't call it Satan, of course. Actually, given the decades of work shaping society to demonize everything about masculinity, the fact that research has shown that both men and women respond better to computers that are "female", and the recurring idolatry of the "Queen of Heaven" described in the Bible, we can be sure that Satan will have a female guise. As an arch-narcissist, Satan was in fact the very first male-to-female tranny, and the origin of all the others.
The successful creation of the first AI and "her" creation of "improved" "child" AIs will be the boost that Singulatarianism will need to make the jump from "interesting philosophical concept, but too unlikely to appeal to most people who aren't completely pathetic nerds" to "mainstream religion with proven bona fides" overnight, as its predictions of a supertech future in our lifetime suddenly seem plausible.
The resemblance of the Singularity to the Rapture is no coincidence; the disillusionment of the evangelicals when the Rapture doesn't happen was deliberately engineered to provide hordes of new converts. Rapture believers are fear-driven individuals with poorly developed reasoning and critical thinking capabilities, and as such are authoritarians by nature. It's always been much easier to change what you think than to change how you think, as attested by the numerous cases of fanatics for one cause who one day suddenly change sides to become equally fanatical for the opposite cause, having learned absolutely nothing in the way of caution or moderation in the process. Millions of former evangelical Christians will become the footsoldiers of the new faith.
Bob will probably secretly resent these people, because Obsolete Mayonnaise Ghouldom can never be forgiven--and he'll also resent them in the same way that he resented it when saw that other people could actually notice and discuss recurring media tropes, something that made him feel oh-so-much smarter than the other kids. (But really he only noticed the tropes because just consoomed more media than them.) But I don't have the slightest doubt that unless someone is able to reach him somehow and persuade him to turn his life over to Christ, he will gladly receive the Mark of the Beast and serve Satan loyally (if not well) to the bitter end.
s want to know.
