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What is TESCREALism? Mapping the Cult of the Techno-Utopia.
What is TESCREALism? Mapping the Cult of the Techno-Utopia.
A new paper by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres traces the intimate links between Tranhumanism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism, and other crypto-authoritarian ideologies.
·davidzmorris.substack.com·
What is TESCREALism? Mapping the Cult of the Techno-Utopia.
Dr. Émile P. Torres on X: "I wrote an entire 500-page book (Routledge) on the history of thinking about human extinction--yes, people have been studying and thinking about this topic for decades/centuries. But it wasn't framed in terms of "existential risk," a concept that no one should care about, because" / X
Dr. Émile P. Torres on X: "I wrote an entire 500-page book (Routledge) on the history of thinking about human extinction--yes, people have been studying and thinking about this topic for decades/centuries. But it wasn't framed in terms of "existential risk," a concept that no one should care about, because" / X
I wrote an entire 500-page book (Routledge) on the history of thinking about human extinction--yes, people have been studying and thinking about this topic for decades/centuries. But it wasn't framed in terms of "existential risk," a concept that no one should care about, because
·x.com·
Dr. Émile P. Torres on X: "I wrote an entire 500-page book (Routledge) on the history of thinking about human extinction--yes, people have been studying and thinking about this topic for decades/centuries. But it wasn't framed in terms of "existential risk," a concept that no one should care about, because" / X
Against Jackpot-Longtermism
Against Jackpot-Longtermism
Examining the stories tech billionaires tell themselves
·davekarpf.substack.com·
Against Jackpot-Longtermism
Permashifters want out of this reality for good
Permashifters want out of this reality for good
TikTok popularized the concept of "shifting" one's consciousness. But some people want to take it a huge step further.
·inverse.com·
Permashifters want out of this reality for good
Social justice, rationalism, AI ethics, and libertarianism
Social justice, rationalism, AI ethics, and libertarianism
There has been a lot of drama on the Internet about AI ethics, and that drama is in the mainstream news. A lot of this drama is about the shakeup in Google’s AI Ethics team. I’ve alread…
·web.archive.org·
Social justice, rationalism, AI ethics, and libertarianism