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Machine God: How We Turned Tools Into Idols and Idols Into Masters

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Tomas Heligr-Pyke
Aug 18, 2025
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Idols with Wi‑Fi, worship without pews, and how not to bow.

"Do they dream of electric sheep, or just dream because we told them to?"

Let's get existential.

If machines ever become truly sentient, not autocomplete with a better haircut, not "sounds clever on Slack," but actual consciousness, then what? Do good machines go to electronic heaven? Do bad ones …

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