{"id":369,"date":"2025-03-03T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:19:07","slug":"religions-are-system-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Religions are system prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Religions (and more broadly, ideologies) are effectively system prompts for humans. Humans tend to one-shot respond with strict adherence to the system prompt. Meditation allows you to *notice* and double click on the chain-of-thought reasoning box, identify cognitive dissonance, and ultimately peel back the illusion of self.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seen through this lens, Buddhism is categorically different than most religious ideologies. At its core, it explicitly refuses to give you a system prompt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religions (and more broadly, ideologies) are effectively system prompts for humans. Humans tend to one-shot respond with strict adherence to the system prompt. Meditation allows you to *notice* and double click on the chain-of-thought reasoning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technoligarch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}