Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Moskovitz is a tech billionaire associated with the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies that have become influential in certain powerful corners of the tech industry, particularly among those funding and directing AI development. The reading positions him as exemplary of how techno-utopian rationalism and AGI-focused ideologies have concentrated in the hands of wealthy individuals who shape the direction of AI research and deployment. He appears here primarily to illustrate how ideological commitments among tech elites translate into institutional and research priorities.

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Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

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

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Influence and variants. The TESCREAL bundle of ideologies has become enormously influential, especially within certain powerful corners of the tech industry. Current and former billionaires who subscribe to, or are associated with, one or m…| | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | | our current understanding and imagination” (Goertzel, 2010). | | | Rationalism | An ideology that emerged from the LessWrong website, founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2009. Rationalists focus on …By 2007, when Pennachin and Goertzel co-authored and co-edited the first book on AGI, few organizations specified building AGI as their goal (Pennachin and Goertzel, 2007a). Six years earlier, in 2001, Goertzel co-founded the Artificial Gen…

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