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…The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
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| Rationalism | An ideology that…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
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Buterin appears only as a passing reference in the course materials, mentioned in connection with billionaires associated with TESCREAL ideologies—the bundle of techno-utopian frameworks (Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism) that promise utopia through artificial general intelligence. His inclusion signals how blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs have become entangled with AI-accelerationist ideologies and their implicit eugenic undertones, even as the readings focus more centrally on figures like Goertzel and the institutional history of AGI research.
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