Yeah Nah Pasaran! #181 w Émile P. Torres on TESCREAL (From Transhumanism to Longtermism) : October 5, 2023

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to philosopher and historian Émile P. Torres [Twitter/X, Mastodon] about TESCREAL:

Transhumanism
Extropianism
Singularitarianism
Cosmism
Rationalism
Effective Altruism and
Longtermism.

If that sounds like science fiction you may be right, but Émile was kind enough to explain the method behind this madness, the relationship of this cluster of doctrines to one another, to ‘Silicon Valley’, and to the many vEry stAblE bRanes geni0uses it’s produced.

And much more, of course.

See also : Human Extinction A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation, Routledge, 2023 | Tech Elite’s AI Ideologies Have Racist Foundations, Say AI Ethicists, Samara Linton, People of Color in Tech, May 24, 023 | Why Effective Altruism and “Longtermism” Are Toxic Ideologies, Current Affairs, May 5, 2023 | A Short History of Eugenics: From Plato to Nick Bostrom, truthdig, May 1, 2023.

4.30pm, Thursday, October 5, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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