La narrativa utópica de las BigTech para promover la #iagenerativa se basa en un conjunto de ideologías agrupadas en el acrónimo #tescreal. Ideas de una tecno-secta a la que se le está entregando el control del mundo.

Esta tecnología es sólo la punta del iceberg, un medio para acumular poder y riqueza con el propósito de hacer realidad uno de los delirios colectivos de Silicon Valley: la #eugenesia.

Informe elaborado por @timnitGebru @xriskology

https://www.dair-institute.org/tescreal/

It's amazing to me that both the secular and evangelical cults within MAGA are apocalyptic in nature, with their own versions of "the rapture". For TESCREALists, it's the singularity. For Evangelicals, it's disappearing into the ether to "meet with Jesus"

The recent publishing of several series of articles on #TESCREAL -ists and associated people makes me think a lot about my youth. I was so close to becoming one of those people (a gifted child, sure I was smarter than everyone around, constantly given positive reinforcement for being obnoxiously arrogant), I even hung out in rationalist mailing lists for a while.

Thank Cthulhu for Umberto Eco - I'm pretty sure the one thing that kept me sane was reading Foucault's Pendulum at the perfect time.

Post says Musk "now focuses on anti-white bias" and "frequently advocates for White people"--white centrism.
Never a better time to use the word "racism" and to examine its roots here in eugenics and #TESCREAL (Google it).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/20/elon-musk-race-dei-doge/

They aren’t “vulnerable”, as far as the #TESCREAL crew is concerned.

They are “undesired” and “unnecessary” for the long-term survival of the human race. https://universeodon.com/@TomWellborn/114174421681831621

In a time when the #TESCREAL (Google it) AI boys are overtly eugenicist, this gets uncomfortably close to judging if not yet engineering humans on genetics without sufficient warning.
A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/opinion/genetics-nature-nurture-sociogenomics.html?smid=tw-share

Via the @ataripodcast: in a 25-minute video, Jean Michel Sellier, Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University, demonstrates the use of an #Atari800XL to train a neural network using a genetic algorithm instead of the memory-hungry technique of gradient descent.

https://hackaday.com/2025/02/21/genetic-algorithm-runs-on-atari-800-xl/

I've had a soft spot for Artificial Life for a long time. During the last AI Winter in the mid 1990s, I was spurred to get back into education and onto a career in commercial software development by Stephen Levy's book "Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation". I loved that Artificial Life researchers borrowed well-understood mechanisms from genetics and implemented them in software to converge iteratively on solutions, in contrast to AI research, which was attempting to build models of categories which were not understood at all (and largely still aren't) - intelligence (whatever that is) and perception.

In subsequent years I wondered why I wasn't hearing any hype about Artificial Life; it turns out practitioners have been quietly getting on with solving problems using the technique. Meanwhile, yet again, AI boosters have blustered their way into the consciousness with another round of overcooked hype.

The Stephen Levy book is still worth a read, if you can find it. (IIRC Danny Hillis and the Connection Machine folks get a mention too.)

(I don't know if any of the genetic algorithm folks turned out to be supporters of eugenics, as many of the current crop of AI boosters seem to be.)

https://archive.org/details/artificiallifequ0000levy_l1x2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#The_setbacks_of_the_late_1980s_and_early_1990s

So OpenAI apparently believes custom-built AI agents are now worth $240,000 per year, about half the cost of the most highly-paid medical professional. It may be no where near as good as an actual human doctor or lawyer or engineer, but it never sleeps, it never gets tired. And in exchange for that ability to work round-the-clock at a fraction of the capacity of an actual human, it takes around a million times more water and electrical energy to keep it running than a human.

If I didn’t know better, then this would be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, which makes me wonder if OpenAI is having their own AI generate business plans for them now.

But I do know better. It sounds stupid because they are lying about their stated goals. Their actual goal is for the wealthy ruling class to eliminate all human labor by any means necessary, and create a perfect wealth-generating machine for themselves. Nevermind that the logical extension of this is that they will have to murder everyone else on Earth who is not among their trusted inner circle, as all other humans are all potentially competitors for their natural resources. All their talk about a hybrid of humans and smarter-than-human machines is the philosophy of transhumanism put into practice, “transhuman” being just another word for “Ubermensch,” or “master race.” That is the real goal, which is why this ridiculous business plan by OpenAI actually makes sense.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114113004264163371

Via @timnitGebru

Was gerade in den #USA abgeht, ist leider keine #dystopie, aber nicht minder verstörend. Von Drogen verblendete, oft religiös oder faschistoid oder beides denkende Milliardäre haben Trump als API gefunden, um ihre rassistischen, frauen- und genderfeindlichen Themen umzusetzen, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste. #tescreal #longterminist #accelerationsm
Europa muss verstehen, warum #trump #musk #zuckerberg #thiel #bezos et al versuchen, unsere Demokratien zu zerstören.
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https://www.golem.de/news/musk-bezos-zuckerberg-warum-tescreal-demokratien-gefaehrdet-2502-193563.html

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
You are not wrong.

The beliefs of the #TESCREAL crew makes them Creepy Weirdos™