Transhumanism and Christian Eschatology

This bizarre hybrid.

On one side, you've got kind of like, uh, you know, somebody who's been

living in the world of the transhumanists for

decades. Somebody who, like, that's his life.

It's a tech bro. And on the other side, you have

someone who appears to be taking the Book of Revelation

literally, right? So it's this co- this combo

meeting, and so

it felt like he was

saying that there might be a way to patch

the Book of Revelation.

Like a tech guy, being like, "We can control-alt-delete the Book

of Revelation. I think there's a way we can, like,

maybe forestall the emergence of

the Antichrist." You know, there, there, there could be things that...

So in other words, you're taking it literally,

but maybe the Book of Revelation is,

like, more of an invitation to fix the

apocalypse. W- when I've always taken it, if you decide

to take it literally-

Mm-hmm

...

uh, it's more of like, this is just sort of what you can expect

at, at, d- when, like, pre-singularity, whatever you wanna call it.

Mm-hmm.

Collapse of civilization.

Mm.

What, this is what happens

at the end of things. And, you know, these are all, there are all these things-

Yeah

... you should look out for. But, um, but also sort of

unavoidable.

Do you think he takes it literally?

Do you think he really believes this stuff,

or do you think there's some sort of,

like, ulterior motive? Because it seems so strange.

Like, there's this, there's been all these articles coming out

in, like, The New

York Times and the, uh, New York Post, how...

Uh, and I, I haven't been there, so I don't know, but, like,

how Silicon Valley's

been transformed into this, like, Christian,

uh, like, mega city. And they're trying to-

Mm

... paint, and people like Peter Thiel are trying to paint Christianity onto

everything that's happening in Silicon Valley.

And there's, like, this big church there.

And Silicon Valley's been historically, like, an anti-religious place.

Right.

There's been no religion in Silicon Valley.

Right. Well, I mean- ... I think what's really interesting about

Christian eschatology and, like, Ray Kurzweil,

sort of, s- s- Terrence McKenna's singularity

predictions,

is you're looking at basically the same thing.

Like, the, probably...

You know, there, there's a reason all these people are,

like, buying

property in New Zealand and building, like, bunkers-