#tescreal — Public Fediverse posts

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=true

On 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.

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

Auf dem Weg in die #Schweiz zum #Winterkongresss der @digiges in #Zurich

Dort mache ich meinen Talk ""All Sorted by #Machines of Loving Grace? " #AI ", #Cybernetics , #Fascism & how to Intervene" - diesmal auf #deutsch

Dass #Palantir die @republik_magazin nun verklagt, gibt dem Ganzen einen neuen Drall

Wer wird noch da sein?

Ich freue mich auf den Austausch!

Foto: #Streetart in #Berlin

#Antifaschimus #Faschismus #Widerstand #DigitaleGesellschaft #KI #Tech #Techbros #TESCREAL

Auf dem Weg in die #Schweiz zum #Winterkongresss der @digiges in #Zurich

Dort mache ich meinen Talk ""All Sorted by #Machines of Loving Grace? " #AI ", #Cybernetics , #Fascism & how to Intervene" - diesmal auf #deutsch

Dass #Palantir die @republik_magazin nun verklagt, gibt dem Ganzen einen neuen Drall

Wer wird noch da sein?

Ich freue mich auf den Austausch!

Foto: #Streetart in #Berlin

#Antifaschimus #Faschismus #Widerstand #DigitaleGesellschaft #KI #Tech #Techbros #TESCREAL

Auf dem Weg in die #Schweiz zum #Winterkongresss der @digiges in #Zurich

Dort mache ich meinen Talk ""All Sorted by #Machines of Loving Grace? " #AI ", #Cybernetics , #Fascism & how to Intervene" - diesmal auf #deutsch

Dass #Palantir die @republik_magazin nun verklagt, gibt dem Ganzen einen neuen Drall

Wer wird noch da sein?

Ich freue mich auf den Austausch!

Foto: #Streetart in #Berlin

#Antifaschimus #Faschismus #Widerstand #DigitaleGesellschaft #KI #Tech #Techbros #TESCREAL

Auf dem Weg in die #Schweiz zum #Winterkongresss der @digiges in #Zurich

Dort mache ich meinen Talk ""All Sorted by #Machines of Loving Grace? " #AI ", #Cybernetics , #Fascism & how to Intervene" - diesmal auf #deutsch

Dass #Palantir die @republik_magazin nun verklagt, gibt dem Ganzen einen neuen Drall

Wer wird noch da sein?

Ich freue mich auf den Austausch!

Foto: #Streetart in #Berlin

#Antifaschimus #Faschismus #Widerstand #DigitaleGesellschaft #KI #Tech #Techbros #TESCREAL

Auf dem Weg in die #Schweiz zum #Winterkongresss der @digiges in #Zurich

Dort mache ich meinen Talk ""All Sorted by #Machines of Loving Grace? " #AI ", #Cybernetics , #Fascism & how to Intervene" - diesmal auf #deutsch

Dass #Palantir die @republik_magazin nun verklagt, gibt dem Ganzen einen neuen Drall

Wer wird noch da sein?

Ich freue mich auf den Austausch!

Foto: #Streetart in #Berlin

#Antifaschimus #Faschismus #Widerstand #DigitaleGesellschaft #KI #Tech #Techbros #TESCREAL

#AI #AGI #AIDoomsterism #Tescreal #ExistentialRisk: "The problem, though, is that there’s no plausible account of how an AGI could realistically accomplish this, and claiming that it would employ “magic” that we just can’t understand essentially renders the whole conversation vacuous, since once we’ve entered the world of magic, anything goes. To repurpose a famous line from Ludwig Wittgenstein: “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”

This is why I’ve become very critical of the whole “AGI existential risk” debate, and why I find it unfortunate that computer scientists like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio have jumped on the “AI doomer” bandwagon. We should be very skeptical of the public conversation surrounding AGI “existential risks.” Even more, we should be critical of how these warnings have been picked up and propagated by the news, as they distract from the very real harms that AI companies are causing right now, especially to marginalized communities.

If anything poses a direct and immediate threat to humanity, it’s the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies that’s driving the race to build AGI, while simultaneously inspiring the backlash of AI doomers who, like Yudkowsky, claim that AGI must be stopped at all costs — even at the risk of triggering a thermonuclear war."

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/does-agi-really-threaten-the-survival-of-the-species/