New article on Sam Altman's long history of abusive, toxic, manipulative, duplicitous behavior (those aren't my words, but the words of people who have directly interacted with him). The guy is a complete conman, worthy of the derogatory moniker "Scam Altman." Read more:

New article on some surprising words from the TESCREAL extremist Nick Bostrom. He suggests that Yudkowsky wants to *never* build ASI, which is unequivocally false. He also says that we should risk the total annihilation of everyone on Earth for a chance of becoming immortal, lol.

“Who gets to be seen as fully human in this world? Our job is to expand that and to push and make that as wide as it can possibly be.” Artist Mimi Ọnụọha's work questions the contradictions of technological progress. Anika Collier Navaroli spoke to her for a special podcast series:

At 7:02 in this NHL recap, the commentator declares that the Blue Jays just won the World Series, as a crowd of Canadians (in Edmonton) erupt with rambunctious applause. What's going on here?? youtu.be/ho3DjTOepG0?...

New article just published! I address Bill Gates' recent pivot away from climate change, and explain why his message is both dangerous (emboldening climate deniers) and incoherent (climate change mitigation is inextricably bound up with alleviating global poverty). GRRRR!!!

Fantastic article by @garethwatkins.bsky.social. Highly recommended reading: www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

The most extreme form of eugenics ideology. It’s like Nazis said: “No, actually we don’t care about any creature with blood in it. We just want to pave the earth with data centres and upload our Aryan brains into the cloud.”

It seems that the new book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares is getting traction and @theguardian.com even wrote about it. So here is a a different viewpoint by @xriskology.bsky.social www.truthdig.com/articles/und...

New article just published! I address Bill Gates' recent pivot away from climate change, and explain why his message is both dangerous (emboldening climate deniers) and incoherent (climate change mitigation is inextricably bound up with alleviating global poverty). GRRRR!!!

It was an absolute pleasure to get to sit down with @xriskology.bsky.social and chat about the eugenic cult ideologies driving the "AI" race in Silicon Valley. Listen in to find out how these ideas evolved directly out of Western Christianity /1 unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com/e/episode-3-...

New article on CogPGT, "the world’s most powerful genetic predictor of IQ," plus other examples of how influential eugenics has become in recent years. I also explain why I think "IQ" is an utterly meaningless measure of "intelligence." (Ever heard of the "BITCH" test? Lol.) What do you think?

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This was a great read, and raises an important question.

«When they [Yudkowsky and Soares] look up at the stars, they don’t see beauty in the pristine firmament but a vast reservoir of untapped resources to be exploited for the purpose of maximizing profit and “value.”» Excellent from @xriskology.bsky.social ! www.truthdig.com/articles/und...

New article about the Future of Life Institute's (@futureoflife.org) statement on the race to build "superintelligent" machines, which was signed by people on all sides of the political spectrum. I also signed this statement, and explain why here: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/when-is-it...

Friends: I just put together a website dedicated to "Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism." It includes a list of articles that I've recently published on the topic. In my view, this is one of the most important issues that almost no one is talking about. See the link below!

New podcast episode!! This one was extremely interesting, imo--Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) explores the evolution of comedy over the past 10-15 years, from the days of Broad City up to contemporary bro culture, and how tech has influenced this. Really fascinating stuff! Listen below:

In case you missed it, here's my most recent newsletter article -- on Eliezer Yudkowsky's very long history of defending incredibly dumb ideas. Why anyone takes this guy seriously will forever be mysterious to me. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yu...

Here I worked for years to discredit a bonkers idea: That *if* a fully autonomous AI system would *ever* develop through capitalist exploitation and replacement of workers, that such a system could even be *theoretically* controlled to stay safe. 1/

This is why I included Yudkowsky, along with his supposed foes Musk, Thiel, Altman et al, in this linked thread btw. @xriskology.bsky.social delineates just how eugenic it is bsky.app/profile/mrvi...

Article on Eliezer Yudkowsky's long history of terrible ideas. The guy has an ego the size of Jupiter, sees himself as a messianic figure on a mission to save posthumanity, & pontificates about topics he doesn't understand--including computer science--despite being frequently wrong about everything.

The tech billionaires charting our future right now are kooks. And we should really start acknowledging and discussing them as such.

This's is why, on the surface, for a bit there, I'd say the @sentientism.bsky.social & Effective Altruism folks appeared aligned. But, EA fails the way many ideologies fail, in that it does not give proper consideration to autonomy & consent of sentient beings to expand our circles of compassion.

“It’s infuriating that longtermists keep telling these lies to trick people into thinking their view is more reasonable than it is. In truth, longtermism is an extremely radical view most morally sane people will vociferously reject if they understand what it’s really about.”

"Do not trust anything that longtermists tell you about their worldview or community, as moral integrity is not — with history as our witness — something they care much about". 👇👇

I'm glad some brave souls have volunteered to read through this rubbish so I don't have to. But I also do feel sorry for them. bsky.app/profile/xris...

In a new book, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares hide their radical transhumanist agenda under the cover of concern about “AI Safety.” By @xriskology.bsky.social

Eliezer Yudkowsky recently published “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” It seems to argue that we should never build ASI, and that human extinction would be very bad. But, in fact, Yudkowsky wants to build ASI asap, and has repeatedly expressed pro-extinctionist views. A 🧵

New podcast episode on the Shrimp Welfare Project! We're joined by comedian Josh Gondelman--a former writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver--for laughs & some serious reflection on what should be included within our circles of moral concern. 👇👇👇 www.patreon.com/posts/is-sav...

My review of Yudkowsky and Soares' new book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. I consider Yudkowsky to be an intellectual fraud, and his book is nothing more than TESCREAL propaganda--in truth, he's pro-ASI and pro-extinctionist. Read more below: www.truthdig.com/articles/und...

New article on three lies that longtermists spread about their ideology. These are: (1) That they care about avoiding human extinction. (2) That they care about the long-term future. And (3) that "future people matter." I explain why these are lies below!! Like, share, and subscribe for more. :-)

New article on three lies that longtermists spread about their ideology. These are: (1) That they care about avoiding human extinction. (2) That they care about the long-term future. And (3) that "future people matter." I explain why these are lies below!! Like, share, and subscribe for more. :-)

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations,” says Cory Doctorow.

What an incredibly weird timeline we all ended up in. www.theverge.com/news/798681/...

"Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?" My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch. This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...

"We’re entering a radically different, entirely unprecedented era of mass informational chaos and anarchy, in which anyone can generate an image of someone committing a crime, of women with their shirts removed".

New Realtime Techpocalypse article is out! I think you're going to find this one interesting -- it contains highlights from all the AI-related doomscrolling you've been doing since September 30. Check it out, and subscribe for more. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-slopac...

If you're still on Twitter/X, I've got a quite amusing/distubring thread on my new article: "Slopacalypse Now: AI Is an Unmitigated Disaster for Society!" Since I can't share videos on this platform (always get an error message, @support.bsky.team), I'm passing along the link: x.com/xriskology/s...

Brilliant.

New Realtime Techpocalypse article is out! I think you're going to find this one interesting -- it contains highlights from all the AI-related doomscrolling you've been doing since September 30. Check it out, and subscribe for more. www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-slopac...

Sigh.

"The best meme wins a $10,000 prize." Not kidding. These TESCREAL folks have so much money they don't know what to do with it, lol.

Great way to put it!

Most of us know about Silicon Valley pronatalism--people like Musk having as many kids as possible. But did you know that a peculiar kind of *antinatalism* is also becoming popular in the Valley? In this article, I name the phenomenon: replacement antinatalism. Read below:

Last year, I interviewed computer scientist Richard Sutton. He won the Turing Award for his work on reinforcement learning. He's also a pro-extinctionist who's okay with humanity being replaced by AI, and he thinks democracy is a terrible form of government. Here's the interview.

❮ “AI” — a marketing term coined in 1955 to attract funding from the US war machine — will never by themselves lead to AGI. Scaling up these models will not yield superintelligent machines that take over the world or usher in “utopia.” ❯

If the current 'AI' hype seems ideologically motivated to you, it's because there's a whole bundle of ideologies operating in the background. Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Émile Torres @xriskology.bsky.social call it the 'TESCREAL bundle'. You can read their fundamental paper here:

[we anti-TESCREALists up in this muh’ going CRAZY upon hearing ab a forthcoming book from @xriskology.bsky.social]

Existentialism gone wrong by men unwilling to look in the mirror.

Most of us know about Silicon Valley pronatalism--people like Musk having as many kids as possible. But did you know that a peculiar kind of *antinatalism* is also becoming popular in the Valley? In this article, I name the phenomenon: replacement antinatalism. Read below: