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…| | | | |
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| 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…
Vitalik Buterin
engineer · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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