"I hope this long post (sorry about that!) provides a bit of conceptual clarity to the issue of SV pro-extinctionism. There are four main questions that SV pro-extinctionists disagree about: (1) whether posthumanity should be an extension of humanity or something entirely distinct, separate, and autonomous from us; (2) whether some current humans should join the ranks of these posthumans; and (3) whether our posthuman successors should embrace the same basic/core values as us. The fourth and fifth axes of disagreement concern what should happen once posthumanity arrives: should we coexist alongside them for the next million years? Should they immediately slaughter all of humanity? Or peacefully convince us to stop procreating? Or perhaps keep us caged in zoos until, I dunno, we decide to end things ourselves?

In conclusion, pro-extinctionism takes both traditional and Silicon Valley (SV) forms, yet even within the latter category, there are many variants. Hopefully, you now have a slightly better sense of the lay of the land.""

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/do-all-silicon-valley-pro-extinctionists

"Meet Daniel Faggella, a pro-extinctionist who leads the so-called “worthy successor” movement, which hopes to create an advanced AGI system to replace humanity. He claims that “the great (and ultimately, only) moral aim of artificial general intelligence should be the creation of Worthy Successor,” which he defines as “a posthuman intelligence so capable and morally valuable that you would gladly prefer that it (not humanity) control the government, and determine the future path of life itself.” We can call this version of pro-extinctionism “digital eugenics.”

Earlier this year, Faggella held a “Worthy Successor: AI and the Future After Humankind” conference in a San Francisco mansion (where else?), which he claims was attended by “team members from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and other AGI labs, along with AGI safety organization founders, and multiple AI unicorn founders.” This points to the appetite that Silicon Valley dwellers have for pro-extinctionism. According to a recent announcement, Faggella is planning another such conference later this month in New York City, which aims to place “diplomats, AGI lab employees, AI policy thinkers and others into one room to discuss the trajectory of posthuman life.”"

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-growing-specter-of-silicon-valley

#introduction

Hello kolektiva.social and Fediverse! New instance, new intro, etc. etc.

I'm a white European queer nonbinary male who's naive enough to think he can make the world a better place, yet cynical enough to joke about it.

I'm increasingly convinced that relentless activism and bottom-up change is the only way up for this wretched society. I'm mostly invested in climate activism (purely theoretically, of course), but I realize much more is needed.

In the process of turning from ally to accomplice.

I'm deeply into music, including but not limited to stoner doom, queercore, psychedelic cumbia, 70's funk, unorthodox black metal, hardcore punk and its offspring (NOT The Offspring), jazz (the weird kind), ambient, and anything with microtones. Yeah. This is why I dread the question "what music do you like?"

Oh yeah, I'm also a philosophy PhD in two deep deep rabbit holes: posthumanist environmentalism and eroticism/intimacy/nonmonogamy. Trying to make one tunnel system out of them.

I occasionally write musings on my blog https://carefullmusings.bearblog.dev/blog/, and I've published a few Dutch-language essays on https://bijnaderinzien.com/author/teun-van-son/.

I also think FOSS and Linux are pretty cool – if not co-opted by obnoxious libertarians.

I'm happy to be on kolektiva.social mostly for the custom emoji (obviously).

#NonBinary #Activism #Antifascism #Antiracism #LGBTQIA+ #Vegan #Posthumanism #Philosophy #Ecofeminism #Nonmonogamy #Polyamory #Intimacy #Blog #Linux #Foss #ArchLinux #Feminism #Sexpositive

When Kurzweil was busy inventing the mythos of the Singularity, did he even once stop to think, "Hmm, maybe I should try fitting a sigmoidal instead of an exponential, as is common practice when resources are limited?"

#Kurzweil
#singularity
#posthuman
#posthumanism
#posthumanist
#assumptions

"new" blogpost just dropped 𓅱
https://open.substack.com/pub/uehapetsijque/p/3d-buddhabrot-fractals-and-post-human?r=49v5q1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Anyway to actually have a place where nazis or trolls aren't allowed

Feel free to join

https://discord.gg/8rwxQXmXBw

https://matrix.to/#/#puttogether:nova.astraltech.org

Yes we have a ev furs chat on the matrix space no its not for teslas nor for hybrids it's for every other ev including pedestrian evs from the wolfking gtr to the Segway g30lp and scooter modding or ebikes and other such like the Nissan leaf or even the bolt or the Hyundai ionic (but not just limited to those) or even trains

We also have other things like lgbt or even the concept of freedom of form

Also plural and nonhumans are allowed and encouraged to join