KCarney

“In fact, there are numerous folks in the longtermists’ orbit, including noted rationalist Eliezer Yudkowsky, who say that nuclear war might even be necessary if it helps delay “the singularity.”
― Jonathan Katz, Cleave the Sparrow

“You produce a deadly paradox,” Jessica had written. “Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah