Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

In this course

Sam Bankman-Fried appears primarily as a cautionary case study in the course's examination of how TESCREAL ideologies—particularly effective altruism—have shaped decision-making among billionaire technologists with outsized influence. His inclusion in the readings suggests the seminar is using him to illustrate the gap between rationalist, utopian frameworks for managing risk and the actual outcomes of implementing them in high-stakes financial and technological domains, highlighting how ideological commitment doesn't guarantee ethical or functional outcomes.

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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 2021, former OpenAI vice presidents of research and safety, siblings Dario and Daniella Amodei, founded Anthropic (Fortune Editors, 2023). They were joined by 11 OpenAI employees who reportedly believed that the company had wandered from…

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