#cosmism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cosmism, aggregated by home.social.
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#TIL what #TESCREAL means. I'm impressed by the explanatory power of conceiving of this cluster of #ideologies as an #interconnected #aggregate which then get used to justify #harm
I feel like a lightbulb went on and that I understand the current state we're all in a bit better now.
Highly recommend starting with the @wikipedia article, which covers the #concept and some of the #criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
Thanks go to #Bhante #Sujato (https://sujato.me/) for making me aware of the term.
#transhumanism #extropianism #singularitarianism #singularity #cosmism #rationalism #effectiveAltruism #longtermism #transhumanist #transhuman #longnow #eugenics #AGI #utopia #utopianism #bigtech
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Encountered this amazing book in the local brocante for zero money: a battered copy of the 1871 15th edition of Camille Flammarion's bestseller on the "Plurality of Inhabited Worlds" from 1862. It is a joy to (selectively) read, partly because it is full of interesting ideas and references to things that have been forgotten 164 years later, partly because the pompous language is both touching as well as hilarious.
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