There's an only-almost-entirely-useless sense in which most people who have lived were post-singularity, i.e. they lived in a world ruled by [in|super]human minds with powers beyond their comprehension, i.e. they were religious.
That doesn't address the big problem, but imo it's decent evidence that if we handle the existential risk the existentialism risk will be mostly fine. (I've never heard of a religious mathematician quitting because "what's the point, God already has all the answers", and fwiw neither has ChatGPT.)
I've never heard of a religious mathematician quitting because "what's the point, God already has all the answers", and fwiw neither has ChatGPT.)
Not quite the same thing, but Methodist founder John Wesley wrote that some people (including himself!) should not study mathematics because it would turn them into atheists.
So I am convinced, from many experiments, I could not study, to any degree of perfection, either mathematics, arithmetic, or algebra, without being a Deist, if not an Atheist: And yet others may study them all their lives without sustaining a... (read more)