HuddledMassIf you don’t want to pay for that article in The Atlantic on techno-authoritarianism, my blogpost is shorter and funnier… #tescreal #TESCREALism #TESCREALists #tescrealist
FeralRobotsReminder that when #TESCREALists talk about What We Owe To The Future, they're assuming we don't actually owe anything to anyone who will actually be living in the current sense. They only care about hypothetical transhumans who would be fully digital. In the #longtermist view, we owe nothing to anybody biologically alive, now or at any time in the future. #longtermism
There is an enemy, and it is Marc Andreesen & the #TESCREALists
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Attached: 1 image We can't let anarcho-cap billionaire #TechBros destroy us. Let's find ways to discredit their work & vote the Republican enablers out: "Marc Andreessen, who runs one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capital firms, wrote a "manifesto" today labeling “social responsibility" and "tech ethics" teams "the enemy." His firm recently pivoted from crypto/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology." -Ben Collins
Amin GirasolThe #TESCREALists declare their #AI #pause open letter to be a success. #TESCREAList #MaxTegmark says: "The letter has had more impact than I thought it would. [...] I felt there was a lot of pent-up anxiety around going full steam ahead with AI, that people around the world were afraid of expressing for fear of coming across as scare-mongering luddites."
And indeed it has been a success; the same #GuardianNewspaper article from which I lifted the quote above goes on to use the laughable #TESCREAL posture of #hyperintelligent #AI to storm past the very real current societal harms of #AI as outlined by @timnitGebru, @emilymbender and others, completely muddying the water.
"Fears around AI development range from the immediate, such as the ability to generate deepfake videos and mass-produce disinformation, to the existential risk posed by super-intelligent AIs that evade human control or make irreversible and highly consequential decisions."
That was the intent of the letter all along
There's rich irony in paper-billionaire #TESCREALists trying to buy a tropical island that's probably going to be underwater in 100 years to serve as home for an experiment in #EffectiveAltruism-driven #eugenics.
#TESCREAL
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-island-nauru-create-superspecies-lawsuit.html
#TESCREAL
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-island-nauru-create-superspecies-lawsuit.html
Re. #PKD & cyberpunk - or at least, future-prediction - I feel it's important to remember that he lived in a magickal world. Technology was a way of introducing a magickal outlook. My favorite example is the sentient appliances & doors in _Ubik_, with which Joe Chip is constantly haggling to get what he needs (coffee, entry to his apartment, etc).
It feels very much like that's the world #TESCREALists want to build.
#TESCREAL
Thinking a little about the intersection between #NRx (#Neoreactionism) & #TESCREAL. No action to speak of on NRx since 2022 (except in its other guise as [what I think is] a sport-stock racing series).
No thoughts, really, just trying to intersect the two ideas via hashtag. Vast majority of #TESCREALists do seem to be #Neoreactionary.
No thoughts, really, just trying to intersect the two ideas via hashtag. Vast majority of #TESCREALists do seem to be #Neoreactionary.