Discriminatory attitudes. The same discriminatory attitudes that animated first-wave eugenics are pervasive within the TESCREAL literature and community. For example, the Extropian listserv contains numerous examples of alarming remarks by …Pennachin and Goertzel (2007b) wrote that “what distinguishes AGI work from run-of-the-mill artificial intelligence” research is that “it is explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence in the short term,” even though they note th…Pennachin and Goertzel (2007b) wrote that “what distinguishes AGI work from run-of-the-mill artificial intelligence” research is that “it is explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence in the short term,” even though they note th…
Charles Murray
economist · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Charles Murray appears here only in passing, invoked as a touchstone for the discriminatory attitudes the course readings argue persist within TESCREAL communities and AI futurism more broadly. The citation doesn't elaborate on his specific work but uses him as shorthand for the eugenic thinking that the course contends animates contemporary AI utopianism, suggesting how older race-science frameworks get recycled within techno-optimist discourse.
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