#tescreal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tescreal, aggregated by home.social.
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@davidgerard you're the sort of hero social media needs, but only the #fediverse deserves.
Two more chuds for the bot ban bin. The answer was anyone who affiliates with the #tescreal movement. Not complicated.
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This by Cal Newport is very good, though I wish it would cite work on #TESCREAL (Google it) & its eugenicist roots. *That* is how scary crazy the AI boys are. It's not the technology; it's the technologists.
How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion/ai-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.hKhM.r3w6ETo4k4Zj&smid=tw-share -
This by @[email protected] is very good, though I wish it would cite work on #TESCREAL (Google it) & its eugenicist roots. *That* is how scary crazy the AI boys are. It's not the technology; it's the technologists.
How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
Opinion | How Scared Should We... -
https://www.europesays.com/people/215125/ The Tyrannical Race to Build Superintelligence #Anthropic #DarioAmodei #OpenAI #SamAltman #TESCREAL
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Important Podcast 🧐
‘They are REALLY, REALLY DUMB’ about some things: Gil Durán EXPOSES Silicon Valley oligarchs
Silicon Valley was once viewed as a center-left stronghold where tech founders partnered with Democrats to push clean energy and digital innovation. But today, the world’s most powerful tech titans in many cases are bankrolling right-wing authoritarianism, promoting anti-democratic ideologies.
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@gilduran to @thorbenson in a interview for #DepthPerception about his new book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism & the War on Democracy":
"I believe it’s becoming one of the defining stories of American history — the effort by Silicon Valley venture capitalists to seize control of the nation & essentially roll back democracy.
...I think we’re in a phase right now where we need to make people aware of exactly what’s happening & why it’s happening. In my book, I point the finger at these evil oligarchs, but we’re complicit in that. We’re giving them all of our attention & our money.
...We have to rethink how everything has been structured around us. We deserve technology. It’s something we, I think, have a right to. But right now, it’s being controlled by a smaller & smaller group of people who have the worst ideas for the future, who see a dystopian future."
https://depthperception.longlead.com/p/gil-duran-book-interview-tech-democracy
#TheNerdReich #SiliconValley #technofascism #TheNetworkState #technoligarchy #PeterThiel #CurtisYarvin #TESCREAL #AI
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What If TESCREAL Is a Conspiracy? - by Émile P. Torres
https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/what-if-tescreal-is-a-conspiracy?redirect=app-store-no-desktop&inbox=trueOn June 12, 2023, the democratic-socialist transhumanist James Hughes and then-graduate student Eli Sennesh posted an essay on Medium in which they argued that the #TESCREAL thesis is little more than a leftist conspiracy theory.
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W mojej fedibańce “dyskurs” na temat #SI i #LLM-ów zaczyna wchodzić na płodziarskie wręcz rejestry. Chyba nie będę wchodził w dyskusje, tylko w kątku cicho budował swój #SolarPunk. Tylko się tam nie pozabijajcie ku uciesze #TESCREAL-i
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☕ 🍵 @[email protected] @[email protected]
@[email protected] @[email protected]
"Die Blase ist gefüllt mit der Leichtgläubigkeit von Narren,
die sich um die Spinner von #TESCREAL scharen.
Das Tüpfelchen auf dem "i" dieses Geschenk-Links-Sundaes: Der widerwärtige Douthat ..."
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6y2b4lqfw2j3oyycegx3ey7q/post/3mty5pu6h3s2v -
The bubble is filled with the credulity of fools who gather around #TESCREAL nutters. The cherry on this gift link sundae: odious Douthat married Aschenbrenner to his Anthropic bride.
The Connections That Turned a Precocious Teen Into the Fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI’
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situational-awareness-leopold-aschenbrenner-ai-fund-4dbb00a4?st=zakhZB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink -
The bubble is filled with the credulity of fools who gather around #TESCREAL nutters. The cherry on this gift link sundae: odious Douthat married Aschenbrenner to his Anthropic bride.
The Connections That Turned a Precocious Teen Into the Fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI’
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situ...
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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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My explanation of "rationalism":
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If you haven't heard of Roko's Basilisk yet:
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RE: https://topspicy.social/@WhyNotZoidberg/117152115654435930
The self-proclaimed "rationalists" also believe in something they call "Roko's basilisk", which means:
What if you believe that AGI isn't a thing or even if you simply don't actively help to achieve it … but then AGI will be achieved someday? The AGI will be *mad* at everyone who didn't help to bring it into existence, go full berserk, and in its wroth kill everyone who wasn't a AGI believer. To evade this doom, you better start believing in AGI … and not just that, but also do everything in your power to bring AGI into existence.
These people are all so weird—literally cultists.
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Seems nothing was learnt (or the realisation dawns so slowly that lots if damage is done first) from what grew in academia and then expanded into common delusion and The Holocaust when the elite began funding scientific investigations into eugenics.
"You got dollars?
We'll make a place for you at our university!"#Eugenics #Nazis #Fascism #CarnegieMellon #OxfordUniversity #FutureOfHumanityInstitute #FHI #NickBostrom #EliezerYudkowsky #TESCREAL #BjornLomborg
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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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RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/117146045089521164
If #MarkCarney knew the US was negotiating in bad faith, he certainly didn't show it by understanding the necessity of urgently developing Canadian #digitalSovereignty. Someone please sit him down in front of a @pluralistic talk (as Doctorow's a Canadian source, and Carney appears to trust journalists well enough to appoint them Ministers: though urgently read also the books by the experts cited below), and persuade our PM that our #sovereignty and #nationalSecurity depend on freeing #Canada from all Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon (AWS) dependence, with wartime urgency.
Hon. @Paulatics, @KristopherWells, @SenKarenAb, or @colindeacon: Can any of you talk some sense into our Honourable bank executive about this? I'd be happy to volunteer to explain anything in Cory's presentations or books that you or Mark doesn't understand. (I have over 20 years' paid experience explaining tech stuff to non-tech people, if that'd be useful.) I'm sure plenty other Canadians such as those in the @linuxassociation and the Canadian #selfHosting community could help explain this too.
Perhaps this needs to be more diplomatically phrased, but if we need funds to accelerate Canadian digital sovereignty, I suggest taking them from Evan Solomon's tax-abyss Ministry of Slop. Evan's an uncritical career tech hype-man with less qualification to run a technology ministry than the historically and catastrophically incompetent #PeteHegseth has to run the US DoD. Solomon's education is in English literature and religious studies, not anything even remotely related to computing, and it shows. His religious fanaticism for, as Drs. @emilymbender and @alex aptly put it, The AI Con, ought to disqualify him from leading a tech ministry.
Meanwhile, the very existence of such an office as "Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation" shows that our illustrious economist mistakenly believes that, in the Empire of AI (per Karen Hao), Canada can become a colonizer, not return to its prior status as a colony: exactly as Trump and the coterie of technofeudal "AI" CEOs backing him are seeking to coerce us into becoming. The promises of "economic efficiency" (i.e., mass layoffs, wage deflation, and metastatic rent extraction) promised by the #TESCREAL (@timnitGebru) dogma of the AI cult system may resound with confirmation bias in the heart of the true believer in the religion of neoclassical economics (may the Earth become infinite and Homo economicus cease requiring infinite compute power), but alas, our first priority in tech policy should not be proliferation of climate- and community-destroying hyperscale #datacentres for the Slop God, but instead, removing Trump's ability to do to all #Canadian government and business what Donald did the the #ICC with a few sanctions.
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@davidgerard This video referenced in one of the replies there summarizes the Harry Potter “rationalist” #fanfic -> #TESCREAL -> death #cult -> multiple murder pregression well.
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@davidgerard @timnitGebru It’s amazing how many times #TESCREAL pops up and it’s just straight-up eugenics.
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Here we go, history is rhyming again.
“In this paper, we argue that the normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century. As a result, many of the very same discriminatory attitudes that animated eugenicists in the past (e.g., racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism, and sexism) remain widespread within the movement to build AGI, resulting in systems that harm marginalized groups and centralize power, while using the language of “safety” and “benefiting humanity” to evade accountability.”#tescreal #eugenics #noai #history https://dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/
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I'll see your Turbo Pascal wager and I'll raise you Zortech C.
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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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#Neoliberale #TESCREAL-#Fascho-Scheiße in #Honduras:
Schade, daß #YKollektiv-Reporter #LukasWiehler nur Männer (ausnahmslos totale Arschlöcher) von #Próspera interviewt hat. Haben Frauen da nichts zu sagen? Es kommen aber zwei Frauen aus dem kolonisierten Nachbardorf zu Wort. Die einzigen Sympathieträger der #Reportage.
#TechBros #Privatstadt #Paradies #Kolonialismus #Demokratie #Neufeudalismus
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Uff, #NachrichtenOderSatire: Es läuft eh schon einiges schief im (inter-)nationalen Funktionärs#sport, but, lo and behold: here come the really BIG assholes und investieren Unsummen in eine Art Doping-Olympiade:
Die Enhanced Games™ 🤡
Das passt gut in ihre transhumanistische #SiliconValley-#Ideologie und es gelten nur ihre Bully-Spielregeln des Techkapitalismus.
Dass #Doping eine Straftat ist: Who cares. Aus dem Weg, #AntiDoping-Behörden!
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Merci auch von mir :)
@kubikpixel @weraweltDa W #Harari erwähnte: Er ist Anhänger der #Kybernetik
Kein Gegner
Es ist extrem bedeutsam, sich mit den #Ideologien hinter der #Digitalisierung zu befassen.
Anstrengend, aber notwendig
En: Thank you, @kubikpixel & @werawelt !
Because Wera mentioned Harari: he, too, is a follower of #cybernetics
Not someone in opposition to itIt's very important to get to know #ideologies behind #digitalization
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Am 06.06.205 treffen wir uns wieder - diesmal zusammen mit der Fachgruppe #Ethik der #GI - IRL in #Berlin & #online für alle, die es nicht in Persona zum Treffen schaffen.
Es freut uns, euch mitteilen zu können, dass Max Schnetker, der an der Uni Bonn zum Thema #Longertermismus promoviert, zu uns kommen wird. Seine #Forschung betrachtet unser Jahresthema digitaler #Autoritarismus aus einer für uns interessanten Perspektive.
Infos zum Referenten:
Max Franz Johann Schnetker promoviert an der Uni Bonn über den Zusammenhang von digitalem #Kapitalismus, #Technologien wie künstlicher Intelligenz und neuen #Ideologien wie #Transhumanismus. Man erreicht ihn auf #Mastodon unter @MSchnetker
Zur Vorbereitung unseres Treffens empfehlen seinen Vortrag vom #38C3 https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-longtermismus-der-geist-des-digitalen-kapitalismus und den #TESCREAL Artikel von @xriskology auf #truthdig https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/
Weiterhin begleitet uns der Text #Urfacism von #UmbertoEco
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#ElonMusk's motivation
(1/2)
"Elon is dying to do this...
It makes me wonder why...
Does he want to get even more power?"-》 I think at this point, I should point you to the dangerous family of sects (#TESCREAL) #Musk belongs to with his #Longtermism:
#Transhumanism, #Extropianism,
#Singularitarianism, #Cosmism,
#Rationalism,
#EffectiveAltruism, and #Longtermism.https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110565890923413442
You will even find your 2nd "billionaire friend, #PeterThiel...
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The Future of Humanity Institute has shutdown, seemingly without notice or warning.
😂 LOL
Home to Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord, and other Billionares favoured right wing, liberal Philosphers for hire. e.g. Musk was a huge fan.
I can't wait to hear why the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy shut them down.
It can't be funding - FHI received the faculties largest ever donation in 2018 of £13 million GBP, with promises of more.
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My point.
The bad thing is, I would actually agree with the systemic descriptions and the connotations of #TechnoFeudalism. If you factor in the #TESCREAL dimension of #Elmo and the #PayPalMafia et al, you even gave the medieval "beliefs" dimension. And no-one will argue that if you receive millions of dollars of seed capital, you owe your #liege aka #VC #fealty. And, yes they collect rent, and yes, they either inherited the "rights" or acquired them, charging rent.
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@FeralRobots @NiftyLinks @adriandaub @davetroy
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#Transhumanism, #Extropianism,
#Singularitarianism, #Cosmism,
#Rationalism,
#EffectiveAltruism, and #Longtermism." (1)All pretty unwieldy and #racist concepts by themselves, it gets even more complicated when they merge.
Source:
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Scientists Discover Crocodile Virgin Birth
Reptile reproduction suggests tht dinosaurs & pterosaurs may hve been capable of parthenogenesis too, much like Jurassic Park creatures.
& yet #NickBostrom, #ElonMusk, all #TESCREAL believers have us running dn the malign #AI #rabbithole. #Billionaires all in on #eugenics as the only 'pursuit' worth investing in.
These guys are arrogant, myopic & worst of all spend'g their $$$ in a way that compromises us all. #StoptheArrogance #ExistenialRiskmyAss
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#TESCREAL, coined by Timnit Gebru and Émile Torres, stands for #Transhumanism, #Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, #Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and #Longtermism. For a breakdown of each term, check out this article https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/
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#AIEthics #generativeAI #epistemology #patriarchy #whiteness #agnotology #intelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #SiliconValley #innovation @sociology @ethics