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by rsynnott 281 days ago
> It would be fascinating to see numbers behind how many AI boosters are religious. Feels like a similar central belief.

Many of them appear to be somewhere on the rationalist/EA (rationalist as in LessWrong enthusiasts, not the literal meaning of the term) spectrum, and probably wouldn't consider _themselves_ religious, though many would consider those things to be religions in their own right.