Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Ben Goertzel is a transhumanist and AI entrepreneur whose work bridges cosmism and AGI development through ventures like SingularityNET, which proposes decentralized approaches to artificial general intelligence. In the course readings, he appears as a key figure in the TESCREAL bundle—a constellation of techno-futuristic ideologies (transhumanism, extropianism, effective altruism, rationalism, longtermism, and alignment) that critics argue shape contemporary AGI race dynamics and their ideological foundations. The readings use his prominence to demonstrate how cosmist thinking and transhumanist philosophy have become embedded in the material and institutional structures driving AI development today.

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Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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1. Introduction Recent years have seen a resurgence of the goal to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system defined differently by the various people and organizations that seek to build it. For instance, OpenAI defines AGI as …These ideologies, which are direct descendants of first-wave eugenics, emerged in roughly this order, and many were shaped or founded by the same individuals. We show how the TESCREAL bundle has come to animate the AGI race by examining how…Cosmism. The third techno-futuristic ideology in the TESCREAL bundle is cosmism, which has been championed most notably by Ben Goertzel, a transhumanist who participated in the Extropian movement and later founded SingularityNET.io, which a…

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