No, Guardian, please do not fall for the doomers' AGI/ASI bullshit as if it were news just because they posted on the internet. Google #TESCREAL first, please.
AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/10/ai-firms-urged-to-calculate-existential-threat-amid-fears-it-could-escape-human-control
@overholt It's even more: a fascist system always begins to wipe out knowledge for better manipulating the masses.
And yes, Trump read a book. In a famous Vanity Fair interview in 1990, Marie Brenner discovered that he had read Hitler's speeches with delight. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce
@mttaggart Some subscriber gifted the article: https://archive.ph/h5kpC
BTW: Am I right in assuming that Lee, Wendy & Co. never became famous for their essayistic skills and to this day have no publishing contract?
The bad news: in #dystopian days, I fear a dumbing down of the world, deliberately incited by #TESCREAL #techBros to keep people manipulable.
@michael_w_busch @xgranade @futurebird Complete with the abuse of underage girls that is typical of many cults. #TESCREAL
Some AI researchers want to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), for the so-called "benefit for all humanity.”
But given that the idea carries the same discriminatory attitudes as UK-US eugenics - racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism & sexism -
the result can only harm marginalized groups & centralize power under propaganda of “safety” & “benefiting humanity”.
@Tattooed_Mummy 
Meanwhile, the whole world waits for the whistleblower who can reveal the lab leak that was responsable to grow all these #TESCREAL bros and their #eugenics and death cult. Some suspect a lab in Florida.
@TeenVogue @news-and-politics-TeenVogue A good and important article showing where it leads to: "became hotbeds for eugenics."
@markmccaughrean Well, this prize showed a collection of all these #TESCREAL fascist bros ("Brin and Zuckerberg as well as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman"). In this case, is it kowtowing or is it already collaboration?
Does anybody know how the scientific world itself categorises this prize? What significance does it have for serious scientists beyond that Hollywoodesque fuss? @academicchatter
@fff Wer sich in Kurzform einlesen will, was das Akronym #TESCREAL bedeutet: https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/
@AkaSci women in these professions, more #womenInSTEM! We had women #astronauts on the ISS who are real scientists - they do much more for girls to like STEM and becoming astronauts!
Please be aware that the NASA had stuff for girls and deleted it for Trump! https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-website-removes-first-woman-graphic-novel-but-heres-where-you-can-still-find-it
And therefore, it has a very bitter aftertaste that Trump supporter Bezos is instrumentalizing these women for these billionaires' #TESCREAL ideologies, not for women's best! They fight women on all levels.
Does anyone know of any good anticapitalist (whether #communist, #anarchist, or otherwise) texts that respond to and attack specifically #TESCREAL/techno-fascist/#rationalist/neoreactionary lines on things like human activity in #space, cosmic-scale threats, potential future trajectories for the development of computing, and the intersection of "high" #tech with body modification while either:
• not arriving at a solution that permanently writes off human presence beyond Earth or bodily autonomy beyond some specific, likely arbitrary threshold, or
• arriving at such a solution while actually giving a good explanation of why even a better society under a better economic system can never be trusted to do anything along those lines, specifically responding to anti-capitalist proposals and visions on that front?
I figure *someone* has to have done some writing on whether coexistence and ambition can even, well, coexist.
@georgetakei Not in a democracy. It's about fighting against #fascism.
Third Reich Nazis were the first industrialising #genocide. These Americans with their #TESCREAL ideology and #eugenics ideas learnt from history: Industrialising makes you cold-hearted enough to do it. https://worldwidewalkies.blog/2021/03/17/auschwitz-poland-the-industrialisation-of-genocide/ It's part of fascism.
Perhaps it's time to learn from the #resistance and #resist?!
@heiseonline Wurde auch Zeit, dass jemand #TESCREAL im deutschen Sprachraum bekannter macht. Danke!
PS: Golem war schneller … https://mastodon.social/@mfeilner/114042059740621277
PPS: @timnitGebru ist hier.
@ArtPhotosDesk Meanwhile, these #TESCREAL exploiters and profiteers make me so angry that I even can't find enough swear words. We do need laws against these destroyers. (And they destroy climate and water reserves with their AI, too.)
@animalculum Unfortunately, it fits perfectly into the concept of the techbros with their #TESCREAL ideologies. They dream of #eugenics to ‘improve’ a "surviving human elite" genetically and with #AI or even #AGI. I would like to see ethical debates in science back (they still existed in my childhood).
At the same time we debate about #invasiceSpecies searching their habitats.
@academicchatter
@jeffjarvis #TESCREAL is also a relevant hashtag here and one of the authors of the TESCREAL paper is active on Mastodon: @timnitGebru
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Like I said, a lot in common with #SocialDarwinism in this respect.
Giving little or no value to "unworthy lives" is very much in line with #Fascism, in particular of the type practiced by the #ThirdReich.
Ad extremis, some important #Longtermists would even go as far as annihilating 3 billion people to achieve the end of making humanity a "multi-planetary species:" 3)
What we are seeing is just the beginning.
#USpol #Longtermism #TESCREAL #Fascism #Musk
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Alas, for this iteration of #fascism, #Longtermism, part of the #TESCREAL group 1), it does make twisted sense: "loosers' lives are not worth keeping.
"Feeding the poor," or "vaccinating the masses" cost huge amounts of money that are then not available for tax cuts for the filthy rich and the central "colonize #Mars" goals...
Key threads for #TECREAL and #Longtermism
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113460884838442787
#Technofeudalists and the perceived #AI threat incongruence
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I'm surprised that you as an #AI and #TESCREAL expert See a discrepancy in this. For the morbid and haughty minds of the #Longtermists line #Elon, there is no discrepancy, IMHO:
1) At least since Goebbels, fascists offen acuse others of what they have done or are about to do themselves; or they deflect, flood the zone, etc. That on a tactical/communications strategy level.
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