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Phil Torres

philosopher · 4 mentions across 1 reading

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Torres is a theorist and critic of transhumanism who developed the concept of "TESCREAL"—a bundling of ideologies (transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, rationalism, effective altruism, longtermism) that he argues contain eugenic and apocalyptic dimensions. His work appears in these course readings to structure a genealogical critique showing how contemporary AI-utopian thinking inherits discriminatory attitudes from first-wave eugenics, particularly within communities like LessWrong and the Singularity Institute. Torres enables the course to examine how machine intelligence discourse may reproduce exclusionary logics under the guise of posthuman progress.

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Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 — ATEK-639/439 — Fall 2026 · QR code