Hark! A sign of the End Times. No, not the Four Horsemen, nor a black sun, nor the resurrection of the dead. The omen that the rapture is upon us is none other than artificial intelligence.
At least, such is the prophecy that has issued forth from the great syncretic dorm room of American culture: Joe Rogan’s mind. In November, the most popular podcaster in the country suggested that the next holy manger might be located not in the Middle East, but inside a mainframe instead.
“Jesus was born out of a virgin mother; what’s more virgin than a computer?” he mused on the “American Alchemy” podcast. He added: “If Jesus does return — even if Jesus was a physical person in the past — you don’t think that he could return as artificial intelligence?”
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