TESCREAL

English Alternative forms en Tescreal Etymology en transhumanism + extropianism + Singularitarianism + cosmism + rationalism + effective altruism + longtermism, en Q59753117 1 1 and en Q89011555 2023 1 1, as an umbrella term for the collection (“bundle”) of its constituent movements.https://web.archive.org/web/20250512084645/https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/ The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — the Weird Ideologies Behind Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn Troy Dave The Washington Spectator 1 May 2023 Pronunciation en /ˈtɛskɹiːəl/ /ˈtɛskɹiːl/ en ɛskɹiːəl 3 ɛskɹiːl 2 Noun ~ en uncountable An umbrella term for a group of interconnected and overlapping ideological movements (transhumanism, extropianism, Singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism). We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries Anjana Ahuja https://www.ft.com/content/edc30352-05fb-4fd8-a503-20b50ce014ab 10 May 2023 People who are very rich or very clever, or both, sometimes believe weird things. Some of these beliefs are captured in the acronym Tescreal. The letters represent overlapping futuristic philosophies — bookended by transhumanism and longtermism — favoured by many of AI’s wealthiest and most prominent supporters. en on February 12, 2024 w:Gil Duran The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/178675/garry-tan-tech-san-francisco 0028-6583 For example, there’s plutocracy, or rule by the wealthy, and autocracy, rule by dictatorship. More recently, Émile P. Torres and Timnit Gebru created the acronym TESCREAL (transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism) to describe the stack of esoteric beliefs behind the new tech ideology. en on w:Timnit Gebru; w:Émile P. Torres The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence First Monday 2024-04-14 https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599 1396-0466 10.5210/fm.v29i4.13636 In doing this, we delineate a genealogy of interconnected and overlapping ideologies that we dub the “TESCREAL bundle,” where the acronym “TESCREAL” denotes “transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, (modern) cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism”[7]. We show how the TESCREAL bundle has come to animate the AGI race by examining how advocates of the bundle initiated and funded the push to build AGI. en 2026 David Broder Jonathan Martineau; Jonathan Durand Folco Algorithmic Capital: Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Le capital algorithmique : Accumulation, pouvoir et résistance à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle 2023 Verso Books 9781804299029 176 https://books.google.com/books?id=0wOJEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA176&dq=%22TESCREAL%22&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22TESCREAL%22&f=false Indeed, most individuals who adhere to one of these schools of thought also adhere to the views indicated by the other letters in the acronym, so it makes sense to speak of a TESCREAL community. en countable rare A supposed adherent of one or more TESCREAL ideologies. en David Kordahl Tech Intellectuals and the “TESCREAL Bundle” 3 Quarks Daily https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/05/tech-intellectuals-and-the-tescreal-bundle.html 2025-05-20 Despite the vague family resemblance, insofar as twentieth-century eugenicists and twenty-first-century TESCREALs both want(ed) a better world through science, one cannot simply pass the sins of one group on to another. Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals Hard Fork podcast 2026-10-09 on https://www.nytimes.com/video/podcasts/100000011204371/anthropics-quest-to-give-ai-morals.html And there are many different groups that are all in this community. Timnit Gebru, a very outspoken person in the A.I. world, has called this group the TESCREALs. And it’s an acronym that includes eight different groups. Derived terms en TESCREALism en TESCREAList Translations French: fr TESCREAL m References en Ideologies Artificial intelligence