Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Jaan Tallinn is a co-founder of Skype who became a significant venture capitalist and ideological patron within AI safety and rationalist circles. The readings position him as a key TESCREAL-aligned billionaire funder whose capital has shaped major AI research institutions, most notably DeepMind, giving him outsized influence over how questions of machine intelligence and existential risk are framed in industry. His funding choices reflect and reinforce the particular rationalist and longtermist commitments that dominate contemporary AI governance discourse.

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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 …In 2010, Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, and Shane Legg founded DeepMind, also with funding from TESCREAList billionaires Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jaan Tallinn, among others (Shead, 2017) (see Table 1). DeepMind’s mission is “solving i…

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