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user-inactivated · 4315 days ago · link · · parent · post: Help building a curriculum on Narrative and Artificial Intelligence
Yes. Also, this. I look at these things as an outsider inclined to be hostile, but this stuff looks uncomfortably close to Scientology. And I've seen Ben Goertzel give a talk at an AAAI conference!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.