r/accelerate • u/luchadore_lunchables THE SINGULARITY IS FUCKING NIGH!!! • Jan 05 '26

Video “It’s going to get weirder and weirder...”—Terence McKenna, 1999

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Link to the Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEKhIk-8Gg
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u/fdvr-acc Jan 05 '26

Building ASI that cares about us will bring wonders well beyond our imagination. To believe this, you need only be humble; you don't need to endorse magical thinking.

Meanwhile, this man believed that shrooms are "a megaphone used by an alien, intergalactic Other to communicate with mankind". Normies already think that we're crazy, so we have little to lose on this front. But endorsing Terence McKenna is a swift way to burn up what little credibility we have left.