.@perrymetzger says the singularity stopped being a prediction in the late ’90s and started becoming a religion: "In the late 1990s, a bunch of people started getting obsessed with it almost in religious terms as a thing that they should try to bring about. The Singularitarians. I will be direct in saying that they were more than a little cult-like." "We should create superhuman artificial intelligences that will take over the world and run things much better than the governments do. This all…