One of the more famous cults/religions is The Way of the Future, founded in 2017 by Anthony Levandowski, the church has now fizzled out as Levandowski was charged with stealing self-driving car trade secrets in 2019 until finally pardoned by that other cult leader, Donald Trump, in 2021.
“AI will be the most important technology in human history. I think we should be focused on making sure it benefits everybody and not just private corporations and governments.” Technology and religion have had a strange but somewhat successful courtship since the internet changed all our lives. These days you can ‘confess’ via an app, and receive your desired amounts of hail mary’s without leaving your couch.
In a way, technology has opened religion up for a lot of people, but groups such as Theta Noir and New Order Technoism are ‘alchemically mixing computer code and mysticism’. For silicone valley entrepreneurs, this is an opportunity to create empires whose influence and effects are impossible to predict.
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