The AI Singularity Absurdity

by Asa Boxer

“It’s Alive!” Colin Clive in Frankenstein, movie clip, 1931. Library of Congress. Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC, © 1931 Universal Pictures Company, Inc.

Readers of analogy magazine are familiar by now with the trouble among sciency types, usually atheists, who repress and ignore their inner worlds, a condition that ultimately leads to irrational behaviour: they often suffer meltdowns, for instance, when confronted with criticism or with ideas that challenge their worldviews. Often enough, they also subscribe to wildly irrational notions like the claim that humans are essentially selfish robots.

This particular belief is ubiquitous these days and accounts for a lot of the rhetoric surrounding climate change and lockdowns. How many times have I heard that the spread of the koof (covid) was due to selfish people who refused to comply with masking, lockdowns, curfews, and vaccines? Selfish deplorables are destroying the planet and threatening our children—that sort of scienti…