{"id":29347,"date":"2016-08-24T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/%e2%80%8bthe-jesus-singularity"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:02","slug":"%e2%80%8bthe-jesus-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/%e2%80%8bthe-jesus-singularity","title":{"rendered":"\u200bThe Jesus Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/e2808bthe-jesus-singularity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m super excited to share my first fiction since writing \u201cThe Transhumanist Wager\u201d four years ago. Vice Motherboard has published this short story of mine on the challenge of AI becoming religious\u2014and what that might mean for humanity. It\u2019s a short read and the story takes place just a few years into the future. And yes, the happenings in this story could occur.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/sgt-augmento\">second installment of our series exploring the future of human augmentation<\/a>, we bring you a story by the Transhumanist Party\u2019s presidential candidate (and occasional Motherboard columnist), Zoltan Istvan. Though he\u2019s spent most of the last year traveling the nation in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20151127-meet-zoltan-the-strangest-candidate-running-for-president\">coffin-shaped bus<\/a>, spreading the gospel of immortality and H+, he\u2019s no stranger to fiction. His novel, The Transhumanist Wager, is about the impact of evolving beyond this mortal coil. This story is even bolder. Enjoy the always provocative, always entertaining, Zoltan Istvan. \u2013the editor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin:0;\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" data-original-width=\"1124\" data-original-height=\"66\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/e2808bthe-jesus-singularity2.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Paul Shuman\u2019s phone rang. He struggled to open his eyes. \u2018Who the hell is calling me in the middle of the night?\u2019 he thought. He rolled out of bed and walked naked to his desk to see. His phone showed it was his secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is it?\u201d he sharply asked on speaker phone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-jesus-singularity\">http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-jesus-singularity<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m super excited to share my first fiction since writing \u201cThe Transhumanist Wager\u201d four years ago. Vice Motherboard has published this short story of mine on the challenge of AI becoming religious\u2014and what that might mean for humanity. It\u2019s a short read and the story takes place just a few years into the future. And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,269,1512,6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66444,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions\/66444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}