Theology is to superintelligence science what alchemy was to chemistry, argues researcher
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-30
Ivan Vendrov argues that theology is a necessary precursor to the science of superintelligence, just as alchemy was to chemistry: alchemists were wrong about nearly everything, but they were the first to insist matter could be transformed. A commenter adds that this means moral judgments, once qualitative, are being forced into empirically definable forms — unfamiliar, but possibly a good thing long term.
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