You’re goddamn right I am.
Then how do you respond to Timnit Gebru’s and Emile Torres’s critique of…
I recognize that they have made a critique, but given that it’s a stupid-ass critique, I have elected to ignore it.
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For those in the peanut gallery who thankfully have a life and have never heard of Gebru and Torres:
TESCREAL is an acronym neologism proposed by computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres that stands for “transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, (modern) cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism”.[1][2] Gebru and Torres argue that these ideologies should be treated as an “interconnected and overlapping” group with shared origins.[1] They say this is a movement that allows its proponents to use the threat of human extinction to justify expensive or detrimental projects and consider it pervasive in social and academic circles in Silicon Valley centered around artificial intelligence.[3] As such, the acronym is sometimes used to criticize a perceived belief system associated with Big Tech.
As far as I know, @avatar does not in any sense count as Big Tech; in and of himself he, like me, counts as very very Smol Tech.
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I think re-appropriation of one of @avatar 's recent comments is applicable here to describe my opinion of Terran techbro TESCREAL:
“Good bones. Sound principles. That is very much to their credit. It’s a shame the implementation absolutely shits the bed, but I suppose we can’t have everything.”
Rationalist enlightened self-interest might pause at trying to achieve a high-liberty future with methods that start as closer to korasan behavior, but why stop to think about such?
As someone who is exactly one crushing of enemies, driving before me, and lamentation-hearing behind on his kinetic ethical obligations, I decline to comment.
I AM THE BIGGEST TECH!
…nah, not really. But I am an enthusiast for Big Tech, and indeed Tech of All Sizes. Techno-utopianism, ho!
(Hell, I was into transhumanism and extropianism before most of the world heard of them. And rationalism, for that matter, before the modern movement made it all popular.)
((For those looking for evidence of this in my works, the search term you want is technepraxic.))
With any luck, the Foolish Bureau of Idiots that accosted you and yours will be thrown out on their ear shortly…
Which should reduce your Conanist ethical dilemmas.
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