Show Notes
On today’s Episode of Palantalk, Nick Paro and Shane Yirak welcome on our special guest, The Opinionated Ogre, to give a deep dive into the “religion” birthed from Silicon Valley — TESCREAL.
T - Transhumanism
E - Extropianism
S - Singularitarianism
C - Cosmism
R - Rationalism
EA - Effective Altruism
L - Longermism
For a full read of today’s 2 main articles, with definitions for each TESCREAL philosophy, see The Opinionated Ogre’s work:
For secondary readings on the human costs of accelerating towards the AI “Singularity” and achieving the TESCREAL philosophies, see Shane Yirak’s work:
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