This article is extremely well done, and although I was skeptical through the first part of it, I do agree that it does belong here. The same skepticism that makes us reject religion needs to be brought to bear on other cultures-like followings. The author calls out Scientology in particular. As far as I know, Scientology does not propose explicitly the idea of a god/gods, but I doubt very many in our community would be very sympathetic to Hubbard’s religion.

I think that Robert Evans (and I have to note I’m a huge fan of his) can wax dramatic when he gets on a roll, but he makes some very salient points as well. This isn’t our first foray into techno-Utopianism, and most of the time when that happens it crashes the economy for a bit and a lot of people lose a lot of money.

But even with what’s currently available, damage is being done. We don’t need an AGI for that to happen, and it needs to be regulated.