Mastodawn

Thiel funds MIRI. Yarvin shapes Vance. Sanders flies to Berkeley. Green films two videos. The extinction frame is a class project. Follow the money.

#AI #FollowTheMoney #MIRI #Longtermism

http://cherokeeschill.com/2026/03/17/the-network-behind-the-moderate-miri-thiel-yarvin-and-the-ai-extinction-myth/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Horizon Accord | MIRI Funding | Longtermism | AI Regulation | Machine Learning

Hank Green told millions of progressive followers to take MIRI seriously. Bernie Sanders flew to Berkeley to meet them. This essay follows the money from Peter Thiel’s donations to MIRI, thro…

Cherokee Schill | Insurance Agent & AI Ethics Researcher

Hysnap Mar 1

Let’s Rethink Parliament: UK Political Churn

When roles turn over faster than problems can be understood, planning gets harder — not because people are worse, but because time is thinner.

The data makes this visible.

#LetsRethink #LongTermism #UKPolitics #Governance

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/lets-rethink-parliament-uk-political-churn/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Let’s Rethink Parliament: UK Political Churn

Ministerial churn and media pressure have shortened political time horizons. The data suggests this wasn’t accidental.

Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental Health

Arnd Layer Feb 26

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116136370851019617

Here is a very disturbing article on #longtermism. It made me realize my main problem with the argument - adding to the monstrosity of the idea itself.

„Longtermism is […], which asserts that there could be so many digital people living in vast computer simulations millions or billions of years in the future that one of our most important moral obligations today is to take actions that ensure as many of these digital people come into existence as possible.“

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#TESCREAL

Oli Feb 22

Heute ist übrigens ein guter Tag, um euch über Longtermism und andere Tech-Bro-Religionen zu informieren.

https://www.golem.de/news/energieverbrauch-ki-kostet-so-viel-wie-ein-mensch-sagt-sam-altman-2602-205705.html

#Longtermism

Energieverbrauch: KI kostet so viel wie ein Mensch - sagt Sam Altman - Golem.de

Wer KI wegen ihres Energieverbrauchs kritisiert, bekommt von OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman die Gegenfrage: Und wie viel kostet es, einen Menschen großzuziehen?

Golem.de

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Justbeep Feb 22

@GrimmReality
Their cult called
#longtermism sucks.

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Justbeep Feb 22

@VeroniqueB99
Altman and his techbro thugs
are a group that really sucks:
Energy for humankind
ought go more to AI 'minds'.
Yeongno, your day of luck!

#limerick #longtermism

Zarion Zory Feb 16

Let's Explore the intellectual lineage that manufactured the West, beginning with Mesopotamian urbanism and peaking in the Axial Age.

Civilizational heritage

Ancient social structures

Cultural evolution

Historical frameworks

The roots of modernity
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#WesternCivilization #LongTermism #ClassicalAntiquity #HistoryMatters #ZarionZoryStory
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https://open.substack.com/pub/zarionzory/p/the-axial-pulse-chronos-chaos-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6wcwai

The Axial Pulse: Chronos, Chaos, and the Birth of the West

"Man, as we know him today, came into being.

Zarion Zory

Zarion Zory Feb 16

Those ⬇️ levels 🧬of depth don't ⚱️

Athens, Greece

Core: Democracy, individualist philosophy, & tragic drama

Epoch: 8th to 4th BCE (The Golden Age)

Dates: 508 & 399 BCE

The Roman Arc

Epoch: 8th BCE to 5th CE (Founding to Fall)

Dates: 509 BCE (Republic) & 476 CE (End of the West)

The Near East: Mesopotamia & Egypt

Core: Writing, agriculture, & urbanism

The Axial Age: 800 to 200 BCE

#WesternCivilization #LongTermism #ClassicalAntiquity #HistoryMatters #ZarionZoryStory

dumnezero Feb 12

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity | Adam Becker (interview)

Silicon Valley billionaires, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, promise salvation through space colonization, immortality, superintelligent AI, and endless growth. Adam Becker, astrophysicist and author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, debunks these profoundly immoral and biophysically impossible delusions, and explains why resisting them through collective action is essential. Highlights include:

How tech billionaires confuse science fiction for reality and why their fantasies of space colonization are biophysically impossible;
Why Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remains an ill-defined concept that is based in the false assumption that humans’ evolved brains work like computing machines;
Why large language models (LLMs), the dominant form of AI, are neither creative nor accurate enough to achieve the dreamed-for leap in machine intelligence;
What the end of Moore’s Law tells us about diminishing returns to technological complexity and the expectation of endless technological growth;
Why longtermism is a dangerous ideology of technological salvation and endless growth, prioritizing hypothetical future populations while excusing present-day social injustice and ecological destruction;
How the fear of death underlies techno-utopian off-planet and transhumanist fantasies;
Why resisting their oligarchic visions requires calling out the ridiculousness of their ideas and organizing collectively to push back both politically and economically.

0:00 Introduction

4:44 Motivations to write the book

9:23 Confusing science fiction for reality

12:37 Musk and Bezos reasons for off-planet plans

15:55 Musk Mars plans are delusional

20:33 Bezos space station plans are delusional

23:34 Kurzweil’s AGI dream

29:27 End of Moore’s Law

34:38 Limits of large language models

36:37 Longtermism perversion of ethics

44:58 Effective accelerationists

48:42 Malcolm and Simone Collins