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Deep Future #3: The Future of A.I. (2nd edition/edited - with Alexander Bard, Thomas Hamelryck, Jim Rutt and Alex Ebert)

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The Prohibition on Human Sacrifice

In the United States, we have a very interesting model where there's room for everybody to have a religion. And people don't even know that if in America, you want to bring back human sacrifice, which is the oldest religious structure,. You are not allowed to do that. So this is a deep religious stance that you have in America. If you look at America with all the shootings and all the violence, it's slowly creeping back. That is religion. I'm thinking that there's a way in which the AI question is a theological one, right? Because we're always talking about creating a God.

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