eigenrobot: 200 years of attempts to replace Christianity have each fared worse than the last
eigenrobot · x · 2026-10-27
Responding to Richard Ngo's point that Christianity got a lot right but shouldn't be treated as our best theory of reality, eigenrobot quips that humanity has been trying to replace Christianity for a couple hundred years and each attempt has done worse than the last — a notable exchange on value systems in the AI era.
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