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The Shock We Are Not Ready to Name AI may become the closest thing to God humanity has ever encountered Not because it will be supernatural. Not because it will create a universe, sit outside time, or in any way be omniscient or omnipotent. AI may become God-like because the construct of God was never merely a type of being. It was more of a function. A narrative centre. An agentic interface between the human mind and a stabilising narrative substrate, we created to remain st

The Private Code Inside Experience When you feel pain, the experience seems inseparable from what the pain represents. The sensation appears to carry its meaning within itself. It does not merely identify a particular condition; it seems to announce that condition in a private language available only to conscious awareness. But the experience of pain is not its badness. The experience of anger is not the attention we direct towards a threat. The experience of pleasure is not

How AI Doomers Mirror Christian End-Time Doomers Dear Doomer, This May Not Be How the World Ends When I did my military service in the ’80s, two Christians arrived at the radar station where I was posted. They told everyone who would listen that the signs were aligned and the end times were imminent. Years later, a work colleague told everyone at work that Jesus was coming back the next day, and we had better get our affairs right with God or face hell. Those types of doomers