Religious Side of Transhumanism

NPR: Whores of the Techno-Apocalypse National Public Radio is designed to put you to bed. Never trust a harlot. Joe Allen “Belief in salvation was once the province of religion,” Brooke Gladstone said …More
NPR: Whores of the Techno-Apocalypse National Public Radio is designed to put you to bed. Never trust a harlot.
Joe Allen
“Belief in salvation was once the province of religion,” Brooke Gladstone said on air last Saturday, “but computer science has transferred faith to the god in the machine.”

Without warning, NPR’s On the Media went from the usual condescension toward red state Americans to dreams of a superhuman Computer God. Listening to Gladstone’s soothing timbre, you’d think she was informing schoolkids about a new flavor of ice cream.
“The idea is that we’ll possibly be able to upload our minds to some sort of computational substrate,” her guest hissed, “so that our minds will be able to exist there after we die.”
I nearly ran off the road. Has NPR gone from normalizing transgender kids to boosting transhumanism?
The episode featured Meghan O’Gieblyn, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine. Honestly, the book is an excellent history of transhumanist ideas, even if the voice lacks …More
Facts Not Lies
A glib (but likely true) lesson taught amongst 'punters/johns' is
"You don't pay a harlot to visit... you pay them to leave and stay quiet".
As for the general subject... should the tyrants get their way... these mechanical means of sinning will not be needed... taking from the story 'Soilent Green', they will have 'furniture' like this
wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Taylor-YoungMore
A glib (but likely true) lesson taught amongst 'punters/johns' is
"You don't pay a harlot to visit... you pay them to leave and stay quiet".

As for the general subject... should the tyrants get their way... these mechanical means of sinning will not be needed... taking from the story 'Soilent Green', they will have 'furniture' like this
wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Taylor-Young
Orthocat
Sounds like the plots of several bad sci-fi movies rolled into one! 🥴 😫