Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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MacAskill is a philosopher and effective altruist whose concept of longtermism—prioritizing the far future's astronomical value over present concerns—has become influential in tech industry thinking about AI development and existential risk. The course readings situate him within the TESCREAL bundle, a constellation of ideologies (including rationalism and utopian tech utopianism) that shape how powerful technologists frame AI as a vehicle for large-scale value creation. His work is invoked to show how certain ethical frameworks can rationalize focusing resources and research priorities on speculative long-term outcomes rather than immediate harms, a tension the seminar interrogates.

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Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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Longtermism was born when EAs reasoned: If our aim is to do the most good possible, and if the future could contain astronomical amounts of “value,” then we should focus on the far future rather than the present (Greaves and MacAskill, 2019…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 | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | | our current understanding and imagination” (Goertzel, 2010). | | | Rationalism | An ideology that…

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