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Roko's Basilisk and Technological Theology

Could a future superintelligence punish those who failed to create it? Lincoln Cannon interviews an AI on Roko’s Basilisk and its theological provocations.

Religion Fiction Inspires Real Religion

Science fiction inspires real science through powerful narratives. Similarly, religion fiction can inspire real religious innovation, driving new visions of meaning and cosmic purpose.

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Nikos KazantzakisNikos Kazantzakis

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

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Carver MeadCarver Mead

Moore’s Law is really a thing about human activity, it’s about vision, it’s about what you’re allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.

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