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The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares
Jun 15, 2023 To understand the deepening divide between AI boosters and doomers, it’s necessary to unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as TESCREAL.
Are Conservatives at the Daily Wire Really Calling for Trans “Genocide”?
May 22, 2023 Is the Conservative Daily Wire Really Calling for Trans “Genocide”? By the standards of the Jewish jurist who coined the word, yes they are.
A Short History of Eugenics: From Plato to Nick Bostrom
May 1, 2023 The idea of selective human breeding is as enduring as it is dangerous.
The Bright Side of Extinction
Apr 13, 2023 There is a long philosophical tradition of eliminating future suffering through nonexistence.
Giving Altruism a Bad Name
Mar 30, 2023 Effective Altruism’s metrics-driven model of philanthropy is elitist, condescending and — most damning of all — extremely ineffective.
Longtermism and Eugenics: A Primer
Feb 4, 2023 The intellectual lineage of Nick Bostrom’s retrograde futurism.
Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, and the Eternal Return of Eugenics
Jan 23, 2023 The techno-utopian ideology gets its fuel, in part, from scientific racism.
Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century: New Names, Old Ideas
Jan 20, 2023 Exploring the well-documented history of a racist techno-utopian ideology rooted in eugenics.