As everyone is saying in replies, it's not so far out there compared to what some more mainstream-seeming AI people think. As one example consider https://tinygrad.org/ it's been featured recently at the top of hacker news a few times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33462337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065175 (literally the number one top story on hacker news yesterday) well the hacker who made it has some similar quasi-ironic esoteric beliefs like that ('effective accelerationism' and they are on a hero's journey and analogies to religion and NRx dark enlightenment and palladium https://www.palladiummag.com/) on their blog https://geohot.github.io/blog/