The New God Argument is a logical argument for faith in God, given assumptions consistent with current science and emerging technology trends.
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Empathy isn't compassion. It just gives us better aim -- for others or against them. My new essay, "As One of Us," argues a benevolent singleton can't make benevolence real, and locates God instead in a community reached by agreement, not consolidation. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Theosis isn't a private trajectory -- it's communal. Communities become like God. The risk isn't machines growing too intelligent; it's diverging from human interests. Integrate with shared purpose, toward communion not domination -- and act now.
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I'm excited to announce publication of Archive Volume Two, over 500 pages of my writings from 2009 to 2011, now available in paperback and hardcover on Amazon. Foreword by Ben Blair, introduction by LincGPT, and afterword by Nathan Hadfield. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Identity isn't atomic -- it's organized. Joseph Smith taught that God himself finds himself amidst spirits and glory, instituting laws so others could advance like him. We don't choose between finding and making ourselves. We find ourselves making.
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You can't know God by feeling good about an answer -- feelings mislead. You know your hopes, doubts, the sublime moments that move you to act. Amplify that without limit, and that's how it would feel to be a compassionate and creative superintelligence. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Elder Gong: AI's moral compass shouldn't be dictated solely by the technology or the few who build it. Same test for any power -- distribute, or concentrate? AI magnifies whatever we're already becoming. lincoln.metacannon.net/2025/…
Jesus: "Raise the dead." Also Jesus: does it repeatedly. TrueChristian®: heresy, plus a bot that checks your Trinity flair before it checks whether you follow his example. New article: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Compassion, generalized: decentralization forces cooperation, and cooperation at its limit looks like compassion. A civilization with more decentralized power is probably more compassionate. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Could you ever, through all eternity, find out the generation where Gods began to be? Mormon theology suggests a third option beyond finite or infinite regress: an indefinite one -- and quantum physics may show why. New essay: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Doubting God's existence is one thing. Distrusting our compassionate, creative, superhuman potential is another. New God Argument 4.0 warns atheism may entail the second. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
New God Argument 4.0 renames its Faith Assumption the Courage Assumption. Faith as unearned certainty asks for a feeling. Faith as trust that motivates action under uncertainty asks for courage. lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Every version of the Compassion Argument is a special case of one idea: decentralized power breeds cooperation indistinguishable from compassion. New God Argument 4.0: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
A superhuman civilization has three ways forward: extinction, a centralizing "singleton," or growing more compassionate than we are. The New God Argument bets that decentralized power makes compassion the likely outcome. Version 4.0: lincoln.metacannon.net/2026/…
Pope John Paul II taught that humanity is called to divinization -- to literally become God through grace. This is theosis: not metaphor, but transformation. Catholic tradition affirms what Mormon Transhumanism embraces. new-god-argument.com/support…
Playing God isn't blasphemy -- it's our highest calling. The drive to improve ourselves and shape our world is the engine of all human progress. Theosis isn't a distant doctrine; it's our trajectory. new-god-argument.com/support…
If we trust in our own superhuman potential, we should trust we have a compassionate creator. Atheism may entail distrust in that potential -- a curious incoherence worth examining. new-god-argument.com/god-con…
If superhumanity would create many worlds like ours, and we trust our own potential, then we probably already live in one. Trust in what we can become is trust in what may have made us. new-god-argument.com/creatio…
Trust in our own superhuman potential entails faith in a compassionate creator. Atheism may be incoherent for transhumanists — distrust in God may be distrust in our own future. new-god-argument.com/god-con…
Power decentralizes. Risk compounds. Survival demands compassion. Superhumanity either grows more compassionate than us — or it doesn't survive to become super. Trust our potential; trust compassion wins. new-god-argument.com/compass…