{"id":13091,"date":"2025-09-03T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:00:38","slug":"the-ersatz-religion-of-transhumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/the-ersatz-religion-of-transhumanism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ersatz Religion of Transhumanism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Matt Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/on-the-ersatz-religion-of-transhumanism\">interviews<\/a> Dr. Aaron Kheriaty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-annotation\">\u201cI think it\u2019s an ersatz religion,\u201d says Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, of a transhumanist movement that is suddenly very relevant, in the age of people falling in love with their AIs, making radical changes to their bodies, and letting AIs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/26\/tech\/openai-chatgpt-teen-suicide-lawsuit\">counsel them toward suicide<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s a religious substitute for people living in a secular age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi interviews Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: \u201cI think it\u2019s an ersatz religion,\u201d says Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, of a transhumanist movement that is suddenly very relevant, in the age of people falling in love with their AIs, making radical changes to their bodies, and letting AIs\u00a0counsel them toward suicide. \u201cI think it\u2019s a religious substitute for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/the-ersatz-religion-of-transhumanism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ersatz Religion of Transhumanism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13092,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}