The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
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| Rationalism | An ideology that…119. Kurzweil, 2005; Goertzel, 2010, p. 227; Bostrom, 2009a; Shin, 2023. Benjamin Hilton, “Preventing an AI-related catastrophe,” at https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intelligence/, accessed 31 January 2024. See also Scott …
Scott Alexander
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Scott Alexander is a prominent rationalist blogger and founder of the LessWrong community, a space where effective altruism and AI safety concerns have been extensively debated. He appears in the course readings primarily through discussions of AI governance and the rationalist approach to existential risk, particularly in conversations about whether and how to slow artificial intelligence development. His work exemplifies the intellectual currents within TESCREAL ideology that link transhumanism, effective altruism, and AI acceleration narratives to broader philosophical commitments about human flourishing and technological inevitability.
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