An obsession with “intelligence” and “IQ” is widespread among TESCREAL advocates. “Intelligence,” typically understood as the property measured by IQ tests, matters greatly because of its instrumental value for achieving the aims of TESCREA…Nick Bostrom, 2002. “Existential risks: Analyzing human extinction scenarios and related hazards,” Journal of Evolution and Technology, volume 9, at http://jetpress.org/volume9/risks.html, accessed 10 March 2024.
Nick Bostrom and Anders Sa…Paula Sambo, Jeremy Hill, and Yueqi Yang, 2023. “FTX halts sale of its $500 million stake in AI startup Anthropic,” Bloomberg (27 June), at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-27/bankman-fried-s-ftx-said-to-halt-sale-of-its-stak…
Anders Sandberg
scientist · 4 mentions across 2 readings
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Anders Sandberg is a Swedish researcher and prominent figure in transhumanism and existential risk studies, often cited alongside Nick Bostrom for work on cognitive enhancement and long-term AI futures. In these course readings, he appears primarily as a co-author with Bostrom on "Cognitive enhancement" (2009), anchoring discussions of how TESCREAL ideology instrumentalizes intelligence—particularly IQ—as a metric for posthuman aspiration and technological transcendence. His work functions as a touchstone for understanding how futurist and rationalist communities theorize human upgrading and superintelligence, though he is not a central focus of the excerpts provided.
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