TESCREAL the anti-human ideology of the tech billionaires

Disclaimer here: I'm not anti-tech.

Like many people I enjoy technology, I love my gidgets and gadgets. I like learning about technology doing my research and whatnot. However there is a point where even I would pause and exclaim openly and bluntly that "this shit is going too far." I'm talking about TESCREAL.

TESCREAL stands for; Transhumanism Extropianism Singularitarianism Cosmism (modern) Rationalism Effective Altruism Altruism (sometimes omitted in favor of focusing on the others, or implied within EA) Longtermism

I'm talking about TESCREAL the anti-human pro-machine ideology of the tech billionaires. The ideology of TESCREAL should frighten everyone its like eugenics on steroids. The tech billionaires sincerely believe that the machines will replace us, and that the human body is inferior and they are working towards making that dystopian vision come to light. They are working hard in developing AGI's which are Artificial general intelligence the step above the LLM's (Large Language Models) we are used to. The goal is to not only replace human thought with machine intelligence but also governance and gradually the phasing out of humans as a whole. They also wish to extend their lives by transplanting their memories onto machine bodies.

This may sound like a conspiracy theory or maybe the ramblings of a nut job, but no these tech billionaires openly say it and fund writers who promote their ideas.

​Peter Thiel: "I don't understand why people aren't more upset about death. It's a scandal... [Death is] a bug in the program, a biological glitch we can and must fix."

​Elon Musk: "I think fundamentally the future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multiplanet species... [Humans are] a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence."

​Marc Andreessen: "Artificial Intelligence is our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone—we are literally making sand think... Technology opens the space of what it can mean to be human."

​Elon Musk: "We do at some point need to be a multiplanet civilization, because Earth will be incinerated... That’s one of the benefits of Mars, is life insurance for life collectively."

"Technology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man" — A sentiment in the Techno-Optimist Manifesto by Andreessen Horowitz, which calls for using technology to overcome, rather than work with, natural human constraints.

Bill Gates: Humans "Won't Be Needed"

When someone tells me that Capitalist innovation will pave the way to a post scarcity utopian world. I'm sorry but I don't know wtf you are talking about. Tech billionaires will innovate on anything but that which will actually truly benefit humanity. The goal of technology should primarily be to reduce the need for human labour and to improve the material conditions for people not to replace humanity with soulless machines or to reduce Earth to a toxic wasteland and replace it with Mars. I mean come on don't you think it is stupid to attempt to terraform Mars or Venus when it is much cheaper and more beneficial to actually stabalize Earths climate? We only have one planet after all. It sustains us and provides for us. I totally understand the vision of exploring the cosmos however we shouldn't destroy our own planet in the process.

While AI tech is cool and shit like that it is also very wasteful, expensive and resource intensive. With AI data centers using upwards of 5 million gallons daily and offloading their water bill costs to surrounding residents. Not only that but AI has been used to influence political opinions in favour of right wing pro US governments, and it has been used to track and identify Palestinians which were slaughtered by Israeli terrorist forces.

We ought to really consider the ethics and the means by which we innovate and ought to oppose dangerous ideologies like TESCREAL.

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