Lifting up the rocks in the garden of Sci-fi to look at what's squirming underneath: TESCREAL
“I'd like to explain why I—and other SF authors—are terrible guides to the future. Which wouldn't matter, except a whole bunch of billionaires are in the headlines right now because they pay too much attention to people like me.”
>Intellectual historian Émile P. Torres @xriskology explains how Silicon Valley’s favorite ideas for changing the world for the better actually threaten to make it much, much worse.
@estelle
It is good to have multiple voices raising awareness.
Keep an skeptical eye on anything Dave Troy produces, though. His past reporting (out of nowhere) centered himself and his research into Russian Cosmism when Gebru & Torres’ (and several others) had already been calling out EA and Longtermism for months or years. He made no mention of them or their work at the time. I’m glad he’s citing their work now.
@toolbear@estelle@sociology@ethics@kcarruthers The second paragraph in the story is about Timnit coining the term, not sure why you're going after Dave Troy who is a journalist reporting ion these things (and who has a much clearer understanding of the trouble we are in than most mainstream journalists seem to have).