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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 05:36:05 JST Charlie Stross

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   @graydon @jdnicoll See also this dude, theologian and the wellspring of Russian cosmism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorov_(philosopher)

   Taught Konstantin Tsiolkivskii, which is how it infected the space settler crowd and the extropians and cryonicists.

   The AI/uploading singularity gave them post-Jesus eschatology with afterlife: Roko's Basilisk is a drop-in replacement for Satan/hell.

   And it all comes together as TESCREAL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL