#longtermist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #longtermist, aggregated by home.social.
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#Longtermist Mike #ElonMusk who thinks that even his own trans daughter has lost her value for humanity, as she cannit fulfill her biological destiny anymore, for instance?
In earlier times, what you mention would've been very much in line with #SocialDarwinism, too.
And if you think of #Longtermists' believe of making #humanity a multi-planetary species, that is going to cost hundreds if billions.
We cannot support "suckers."Said to say, but here we are.
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#USpol #Fascism
@pojntfx
#TikTok"s CEO will be at the inauguration of the first convicted-fellon president-elect, jointly with the fascist #TESCREAL #TechOligarch, #Elmo.As you know from your history classes, what is the most important strategy in the rise of fascism?--The #Alignment of society (#Gleichschaltung.)
With #SuckerBerg having joined the #MAGA fray this week, the unholy alliance of them and the #fascist #Longtermist #Musk #TechBros, #TikTok is priceless for them.
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Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic
#Nick #Bostrom has explored the possibility of engineering "radically enhanced" human beings by genetically screening embryos for "desirable" traits, destroying those that lack these traits, and then growing new embryos from stem cells.
This engineered person might be so different from us — so much more intelligent — that we would classify them as a new, superior species: a #posthuman. According to Bostrom's 2020 "Letter From Utopia," posthumanity could usher in a techno-utopian paradise marked by wonders and happiness beyond our wildest imaginations.
Referring to the amount of pleasure that could exist in utopia, the fictional posthuman writing the letter declares: "We have immense silos of it here in Utopia. It pervades all we do, everything we experience. We sprinkle it in our tea."
Central to the #longtermist #worldview is the idea of #existential #risk, introduced by Bostrom in 2002. He originally defined it as any event that would prevent us from creating a posthuman civilization, although a year later he implied that it also includes any event that would prevent us from colonizing space and simulating enormous numbers of people in giant computer simulations (this is the article that #Musk retweeted).
More recently, Bostrom redefined the term as anything that would stop humanity from attaining what he calls "#technological #maturity," or a condition in which we have fully #subjugated the #natural #world and #maximized #economic #productivity to the limit — the ultimate Baconian and capitalist fever-dreams.
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#ElonMusk and the Longtermists: What Do They Want?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_M64BSzcRY&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder
#SabineHossenfelder #Futurology #Longtermist #Longtermists #ExistentialRisk #ExistentialRisks #Risk #Risks #Philosophy #Logic