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		Tloewald on Aug 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Naked and the TED The author almost but not quite describes "the singularity" as a kind of secular pseudo-intellectual rapture. Nailed it.

_delirium on Aug 4, 2012 | [–]

That's an idea that does get thrown around fairly explicitly now and then: https://www.google.com/search?q=singularity+%22rapture+for+n...

ontoillogical on Aug 4, 2012 | [–]

"who doesn’t fancy uploading his soul to the cloud so that it can commingle with the soul of Steve Jobs?" is a great line

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