#tescreal — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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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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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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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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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#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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#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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it's safe to say that "the much smaller market of #transhumanist funeral rites" was not a sentence i ever expected to see in my life
i feel like i owe the #EpsteinFiles a heavy debt for exposing me to these kinds of literary experiences.
#PeterThiel #NetworkState #Epstein #uspol #Nectome #JoschaBach #transhumanism #tescreal #libertarian
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Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.
Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.
I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.
And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.
Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages
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Thanks, @ewen.
File this thoughtful thread under #dystopia, #techBroCulture & #tescreal ** TESCREAL (eww 😖🤬):
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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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Hannah Arendt parlait du basculement de l'humanité à cause de trois facteurs :
- la culture hors-sol
- la privation de travail
- la #procréation artificielleJe crois qu'elle n'imaginait ni l'utérus artificiel ni la production de gamètes et d'ovocytes en laboratoire
L'#eugénisme : on y va tout droit, à fond ! et c'est inquiétant voire terrifiant, ou bien j'suis rétrograde
https://www.fondapol.org/etude/luterus-artificiel-et-la-reproduction-humaine/Pensez à M* qui nous engueule parce que la natalité baisse trop
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Wow. Mike Levin has finally come out as a full #transhumanist: https://noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-bridge-toward-diverse-intelligence #TESCREAL
I'm not sure "most of us think this way about the world we want for our kids"... at least I don't. Not at all. I find this toxic optimist "vision" utterly naive & disgusting. /1