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JakobVirgil  ·  4263 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Help building a curriculum on Narrative and Artificial Intelligence

Cult-like like Lesswrong or cult-like like Heaven's Gate and Scientology?

I think a lot of futurology (and all of Kurtzweil) comes from a religious impulse and has more to do with new-agery and eschatology than science. I guess it is fine enough as a hobby.

Since the class is about pop-culture and AI Kurtzweil is a good fit.