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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Murray appears in the course materials as a figure whose work exemplifies the eugenic and discriminatory intellectual currents that the readings argue persist within contemporary AI and futurism communities, particularly in TESCREAL (Transhumanist, Extropian, Singularitarian, Rationalist, Effective Altruist, and Longtermist) circles. The excerpts suggest he's invoked to show how older pseudoscientific hierarchies of human capability continue to animate debates about artificial general intelligence and human enhancement, linking historical eugenics to present-day techno-utopian ideology. His presence in these discussions serves as a cautionary reference point for understanding how unexamined biases about intelligence, worth, and human nature can embed themselves in seemingly forward-looking technological movements.
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