(2) #TechnoTranscendentalism (and techno-optimism more generally) are based on the completely unsupported belief that physical processes actually constitute some kind of (Turing-)computation. /4

The article makes three simple points:

(1) #TechnoTranscendentalism resembles medieval Christianity strongly with its salvation narrative of the technological singularity, and its anti-democratic neo-feudalist politics. /3

I know there is too much talk about #AI at the moment.

But I've written a blog post, anyway, because I
think I have something to add.

#TechnoTranscendentalism and #AGI as a religious cult, with a neo-feudalist political program: http://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/machine-metaphysics-and-the-cult-of-techno-transcendentalism

#AI is #AlgorithmicMimicry /1