#tescreal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tescreal, aggregated by home.social.
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Hej, just got my conformation from the @datenspuren :awesome:
My talk "Every breath you take: Why real name registration is not for a better web but a better surveillance" will be at 18.09.2026 16:00–16:45, Henny-Brenner-Saal see you in Dresden!
And thanks to all the folks organizing the event 💓https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/NTAWEX/
#tech #surveillance #wsocial #realnameregistration #klarnamenpflicht #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cybernetics #tescreal -
More Everything Forever : AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Anssi Ylirönnin ja Tapio Tammisen Evoluution herrat oli erinomainen alustus transhumanismin ja kosmismin aatehistoriaan, ja miten kyseiset aatteet vaikuttavat Piilaaksossa, ja siten salakavalasti meidän kaikkien elämään. Adam Beckerin kirja More Everything Forever käsittelee oikeastaan samaa aihetta, mutta sen lähestymistapa on sen verran erilainen, että kirja pikemminkin täydentää Evoluution herroja kuin toistaa sen sisältöä. Journalistinen tietokirja pohjautuu ennen kaikkea […]https://www.kirjavinkit.fi/arvostelut/more-everything-forever/
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More Everything Forever : AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Anssi Ylirönnin ja Tapio Tammisen Evoluution herrat oli erinomainen alustus transhumanismin ja kosmismin aatehistoriaan, ja miten kyseiset aatteet vaikuttavat Piilaaksossa, ja siten salakavalasti meidän kaikkien elämään. Adam Beckerin kirja More Everything Forever käsittelee oikeastaan samaa aihetta, mutta sen lähestymistapa on sen verran erilainen, että kirja pikemminkin täydentää Evoluution herroja kuin toistaa sen sisältöä. Journalistinen tietokirja pohjautuu ennen kaikkea […]https://www.kirjavinkit.fi/arvostelut/more-everything-forever/
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In the summer of 2024, in Europe, there was this petition to #TaxTheRich that needed to get 1 million signatures. Had this number been reached, the EU politicians would *have* to discuss the topic.
We had a year to get the 1 million signatures, but even after 10 months we still had only 250,000 signatures.
No sane working-class person can be against #TaxTheRich, so I figured it's only because nobody even hears of the existence of this petitition that it never took off.
As the deadline came closer and closer, I saw the petitition shared more and more on Mastodon. But Mastodon is a tiny network. With our cozy little bubble we would never find 750,000 signatures in less than two months. What we needed was a person with a massive reach to boost the initiative. A single "influencer" with a few million followers could get us the 750,000 missing signatures within a day.
So I figured a promising winning strategy is to write to a few YouTubers with large followings. You can imagine how that went, but I thought it worth a try, and then I could at least say I didn't leave a single stone unturned.
I wrote to Ali Abdaal, since he had already mentioned (and made a few videos about) the "10% Pledge", about donating to charities for the rest of his life.
https://aliabdaal.com/giving-what-we-can/
At the time, in the summer of 2024, he also flew his entire team to Turkey for some "off-site"/"workcation". He apparently ran out of ideas for videos to create to keep the needy YouTube algorithm happy, so he just filmed himself and his crew having a holiday in a rented mansion with a swimming pool, masquerading as work and planning quarterly goals or whatever. Imagine the CO2 emissions of flying 15 people or so to an "off-site"/vacation.
Of course I never received an answer from Ali Abdaal, who was portraying himself being serious about giving away 10% of the money he makes. Of course I foresaw that beforehand but thought it worth a try. The deadline passed and #TaxTheRich didn't even come close to the necessary number of signatures.
Only later (after the deadline had passed) did I learn that "Giving What We Can" is founded by Toby Ord, William MacAskill, and Bernadette Young. It's Effective Altruism.
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@alineblankertz The connections between “AI” boosters, “AI” doomers, #EffectiveAltruism and other #TESCREAL ideologies are explained quite clearly in @RainerMuehlhoff’s little book “AI and the New Fascism” which will appear in November. (I read the German original edition.)
https://rainermuehlhoff.de/en/KI-und-der-neue-Faschismus-Reclam-Buch/
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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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@mhpotter I gave you a lot of justification: the works by Timnit Gebru and Emile Torres. That I even summarized and linked for you. You just ignored it.
The University of Oxford, and especially their philosophy department is highly problematic. They also employ Nick Bostrom and other highly problematic professors who are all in one way or another connected to billionaires and eugenicists, and they "criti-hype" AI for billionaires by describing doomsday scenarios.
As long as the University of Oxford doesn't cut ties with these philosophy professors, the University of Oxford is itself problematic. So are think tanks coming out of it.
The University of Oxford also employs Israeli professors (for example, in their computer science department) who are openly zionist and genocidal.
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@[email protected] Genocide is defined as any of certain acts that are committed with the _intent_ to destroy, in whole or just parts, a specific group. You don't even have to succeed in your attempts to destroy, you just have to have had the intention to destroy. If you can't see that J. K. Rowling is doing exactly that, then you have a pretty limited imagination.
It doesn't require gas chambers or machetes or missiles to commit genocide.
Whether it actually is genocide is up for debate, but denying it up front with the words "ridiculous" and "any stretch of the imagination" makes you look like an absolute asshole.
Defending J. K. Rowling _and_ Effective Altruism, I wonder why I don't simply block you.
Maybe you're just a lost young person who listened to the wrong people. But now that I explained both to you, you know better, so don't continue arguing or I'll block you.
Edit: Fixed typo in altruism.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is the guy who coined the term Effective Altruism, the toxic ideology that billionaires and capitalism-brained aspiring millionaires use to excuse their greed.
They tell themselves, for example, that it's good to work at awful companies such as Facebook/Meta to make ungodly amounts of money because, "look at all the good things I could do with all that money," while ignoring all the awful consequences of them working for these companies.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is in large parts responsible for introducing and turning billionaires to this toxic ideology. He's also responsbile for another toxic ideology called Rationalism where they suppress all their feelings, and its communities such as LessWrong or Slate Star Codex.
He apparently also wrote a fan-fiction book for Harry Potter, called "Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality". Its premise is that Harry Potter was raised by scientists and University of Oxford professors (🙄), and at the age of 10 having already received a rigorous scientific education, before being sent to Hogwarts, where he then examines the magic through the lens of science.
"Productivity YouTuber" Ali Abdaal who has millions of uneducated gullible followers, is now promoting that book with a video literally titled, "I am begging you to read [this book]."
Promoting Harry Potter in 2026 is definitely a choice. J. K. Rowling is doing her best to ensure the death of all transgender people. What Rowling is doing literally falls under the definition of genocide.
Promoting the works of Effective Altruists in 2026 is definitely a choice.
Ali Abdaal represents everything that is wrong with Gen Z aspiring to become millionaires by way of becoming YouTubers. Please stop watching him.
I discovered his channel in 2018 or so, when he showed his viewers the flashcard app Anki. And I learned how to study effectively thanks to him, something school or my parents never taught me. But I quickly got turned off by his channel around 2019 or so when he started pivoting to iPad reviews like every other tech channel. And especially when his popularity exploded in 2020 with everyone stuck at home due to the pandemic.
Please stop watching him if you do.
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#TIL (Today I Learned) that "Aella", the sex worker who poses as data scientist by sending people questionaires asking about their sex life and who was platformed by Lex Fridman, is running a cult where they preach that AI will kill us all and that doomsday is near … unless, of course, we redirect all our money into "AI Safety startups" to prevent that from happening.
It's all a marketing plot for the most disgusting companies of our time.
Aella is a good friend of Grimes, felon Musk's long-term partner. And that's how Lex Fridman and Aella were introduced to each other.
At Aella's cult named "plzdontkillus", influencers chasing fame and money are first lured in by promises of heaploads of money and then made to crank out one video a day to their followers. Attendants are even subjected to "voluntary" torture methods such as waterboarding.
How is this different from Charles Manson's cult?
The Effective Altruists financing all this also subverted popular YouTube channels such as Hank Green's SciCom.
I've also long grown wary of Kurzgesagt which I watched a lot around 2018–2020.
Meanwhile Peter Thiel is inviting influential people to secret meetups he calls "Dialog" where they can discuss off the records how to build cults. Leaks have shown that besides CEOs of various corporations, even Kaja Kallas of the EU Commission attended the secret Dialog meetings.
Seemingly everyone around you is turning crazy, developing psychosis, or becoming indoctrinated into a cult.
Also meanwhile, uninformed people (for example, your coworkers) think you're a nutcase when you mention any of this and speak out against "AI" at the workplace.
Please stop watching these podcasts. Stop giving these folks your attention. I don't know what else to say.
#LexFridman #TESCREAL #EffectiveAltruism #GenAI #capitalism #ClimateCatastrophe
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Every now and then someone brings up #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL, #RokosBasilisk, #Rationalism, or some other #Musk related nonsense. I ridicule it, or laugh, and move on. The whole evil god of Roko's Basilisk is so silly it doesn't feel worth writing about. But people started a whole cult over it and killed a bunch of people.
Since then I've been meaning to actually spend time tearing it down. So I think it's time to go kill a god. Fortunately it involves making fun of Elon Musk specifically and all the #AI-pilled #TechBros more generally, so that's nice I guess.
Also, I make the argument that we're all in a simulation that only exists to torture Elon Musk.
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Recomendamos darle lectura a este paper: El paquete TESCREAL: El movimiento eugenésico y la promesa de la utopía a través de la inteligencia artificial general
https://arteesetica.org/el-paquete-tescreal/
Autores: Timnit Gebru y Émile P. Torres
El culto a la eugenesia es la base sobre la que está edificado gran parte de Silicon Valley y toda la industria de la actual IA generativa.
#AI #IA #generativeAI #eugenesia #OpenAI #tescreal #ElonMusk #Anthropic #Google #genAI #war
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El desarrollo de la actual #IAgenerativa es solo un paso más para alcanzar la AGI. El objetivo principal de Silicon Valley es lograr la #eugenesia a través de la colonización de la humanidad. Esta tecnología no es inocua ni es una «herramienta», es un instrumento que sacrifica el presente en pos de un futuro utópico.
Aquí tenéis la traducción al español realizada por Arte es Ética del informe «The TESCREAL bundle» de Timnit Gebru y Émile P. Torres.
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La narrativa utópica de las BigTech para promover la #iagenerativa se basa en un conjunto de ideologías agrupadas en el acrónimo #tescreal. Ideas de una tecno-secta a la que se le está entregando el control del mundo.
Esta tecnología es sólo la punta del iceberg, un medio para acumular poder y riqueza con el propósito de hacer realidad uno de los delirios colectivos de Silicon Valley: la #eugenesia.
Informe elaborado por @timnitGebru @xriskology