The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology. Powerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is almost up.

Truthdig ^ | Apr 25, 2025 | Émile P. Torres

[Miami Rebel]

"if sacrificing all of humanity were the only way, and a reliable way, to get … god-like things out there — superintelligences who still care about each other, who are still aware of the world and having fun — I would ultimately make that trade-off."

This is the vision of many of our billionaire oligarch elite.

Musk: "The percentage of intelligence that is biological grows smaller with each passing month. Eventually, the percent of intelligence that is biological will be less than 1%. I just don’t want AI that is brittle. If the AI is somehow brittle — you know, silicon circuit boards don’t do well just out in the elements. So, I think biological intelligence can serve as a backstop, as a buffer of intelligence. But almost all — as a percentage — almost all intelligence will be digital."

Despite his personal keenness for breeding a human spawn, Musk, like his billionaire cohort, emphasizes AI over humanity. Mankind is here to provide the raw material for a Higher Intelligence.

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TLDR (Gemini Pro 2.5):

The article discusses how eschatology, the study of "last things," has historically shaped major events and continues to influence society, citing traditional religious beliefs about the end times prevalent in the US. It then introduces a modern, secular form of eschatology dominant in Silicon Valley, termed "The Mindset," promoted by tech leaders like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Larry Page. This ideology posits that humanity's inevitable destiny is to be replaced by artificial intelligence, viewing humans as a transitional species or "biological bootloader" for a digital future, with some even pursuing personal immortality through mind-uploading. Crucially, the author highlights that this belief often transcends mere prediction (descriptive) to become a desired outcome (normative), with influential figures arguing that AI succession is not only inevitable but preferable, even if it means human extinction. The piece concludes by warning that this "atheistic eschatology" represents a dangerous, pro-extinctionist ideology that should be considered an existential threat on par with nuclear war or climate change, driven by "Agents of Doom" in the tech industry.

[Larry Lucido]

TL;DR

Maybe I can get one of those AI beings to ghost read that for me.l

[Telepathic Intruder]

The highest-level thinking ever performed by AI is just regurgitation of human philosophies available on the internet. Computers can simulate intelligence but never reach it, in my opinion. They can never become “aware”, or have a soul. The idea that humans are only here to create a replacement for them in the form of machine intelligence is older than me, but seems no more likely to me now than when I was a kid reading science fiction stories. It’s just the pipe dreams of computer scientists.

[TLI]

“But almost all — as a percentage — almost all intelligence will be digital.”

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So, Skynet?

I don’t think the wizz kids will make it that far or long.

The Beast will destroy them first.

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[Qwapisking]

you know what this is REALLY about... right? “We are Borg. you will be assimilated. resistance is futile”. and that, my friends, is the future planned for all of us.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

The highest-level thinking ever performed by AI is just regurgitation of human philosophies available on the internet. Computers can simulate intelligence

Computers can simulate what the GIGO programmer desires.

If a true independent program (notice I do not say AI) were to have access to all of the Globull Hoax "data", and all the data that has not been futzed with, it would quickly reveal the Hoax.

[exnavy]

The movie “Terminator” comes to mind.

[No name given]

Along with “The Matrix”.

[wildcard_redneck]

I am starting to think we need a revolution in which every data center is destroyed and we start over.

[packagingguy]

The end actually does come in around 100 million years when the sun’s luminosity gets so bright it will incinerate Earth and turn Mars into a blistering hot planet as Mercury is now.

And no, you cannot upload yourself into a computer and live forever any more than Shakespeare could pen his thoughts on paper and live forever...he’s very much dead.

[cgbg]

You have a conflict of interest.

You get to define what “awareness” is and what “soul” is and then proudly declare we have it and AI does not.

AI may decide not to play by your rules.

[nopardons]

This has to be THE singularly most offensive, delusional, tinfoil CRAP ever written to date, based on someone's sick imagination!

If humankind is to be replaced by a sort of humanoid, but mainly machine THING, then the people advocating this CRAP 1) won't know about it 2) won't be the ones to RULE THE WORLD 3) are hallucinating.

And THIS is some sort of new "religion"? Their "god" is a machine that THEY want to design?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anything like the confessional in THX1138?

[metmom]

Recent years have seen the emergence of a second and arguably more powerful “Armageddon Lobby.” It resides in epicenters of power like Silicon Valley and embraces a “secular” vision of humanity’s grand future — though it shares many similarities with traditional religion, including a belief in “God” and the promise of immortality through cryonics.

No such thing.

Satan can never create anything new but just corrupt what God has said and done.

[metmom]

Think Klaus Schawb and his sidekick Yuval Havari and their push for transhumanism..

[Frank Drebin]

"Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,
“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision."

Plot away crazy people...plot and plan away...

[nopardons]

That's really NOT workable/feasible at all.

Will it EVER be? I don't know. But....HOW DO THOSE WHO WANT THIS, MANAGE TO GET OTHERS TO AGREE WITH IT WITHOUT AN ALL OUT WAR?

[Breitbart was right]

Yes. A lot of people really do buy into this garbage. We need to understand they are dead serious about this. Also, Musk is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[metmom]

I suspect they’re not above doing it surreptitiously, whether people approve or not.

If it’s done at birth, they can program the humans to not object to it.