On technology, transhumanism, and progress.

James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and contributing editor Leigh Phillips.

What is wrong with the acronym TESCREAL?

Why is it wrong to worry about future transhumanism when we need to grapple with the technologies of now?

What are the limits of bourgeois futurism? What is an alternative futurism?

Has AI changed everything? Will it?

Are we actually living in an age of rapid technological advance?

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Links:

Conspiracy Theories, Left Futurism, and the Attack on TESCREAL, James Hughes & Eli Sennesh

/306/ AI Capitalism: Inhuman Power

/335/ AI & the End of the End of History

/446/ The Techno-Fantasy of Perfect Freedom ft. Amber Trotter

/488/ Homo-Techno, Homo-Solo ...Post-Homo? ft. Alex Gendler

The Obama-to-Yarvin Pipeline, Geoff Schullenberger, Compact Substack