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earthling<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>10. All these changes will fundamentally improve the subjective and social<br>experience of humans and our creations and successors, leading to states of individual and shared awareness possessing depth, breadth, and wonder far beyond that accessible to "legacy humans."</p><p>Prelude: A Beneficial AGI Manifesto | 13</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmism</span></a></p>
earthling<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>*Not an endorsement</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robots</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/singularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>singularity</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transhumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transhumanism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmism</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@davetroy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davetroy</span></a></span> </p><p>The Story behind the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Noosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Noosphere</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EverythingApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EverythingApp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> </p><p>(12/n)</p><p>NOTES (finally found again! :)</p><p>From 2022 posts of mine on the DeadBirdSite:</p><p>"This is a New Age eschatological prophecy rooted in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmism</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VladimirVernadsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VladimirVernadsky</span></a>, chief theorist of the Noosphere concept, himself predicted the transition would be violent and include upheavals; which may be a self-fulfilling prophecy." </p><p><a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA237-1.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA</span><span class="invisible">237-1.html</span></a></p><p>"For those new to the “Noosphere” concept,...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@si_irini" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>si_irini</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>'s motivation </p><p>(1/2)</p><p>"Elon is dying to do this...</p><p>It makes me wonder why...<br>Does he want to get even more power?"</p><p>-》 I think at this point, I should point you to the dangerous family of sects (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESCREAL</span></a>) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> belongs to with his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Longtermism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longtermism</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transhumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transhumanism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Extropianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extropianism</span></a>,<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Singularitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singularitarianism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmism</span></a>,<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationalism</span></a>, <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EffectiveAltruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EffectiveAltruism</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Longtermism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longtermism</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110565890923413442" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1105</span><span class="invisible">65890923413442</span></a></p><p>You will even find your 2nd "billionaire friend, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a>...</p>
Grzegorz Wapiński<p>Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real | Scientific American <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/longermism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longermism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBillionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechBillionaires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FeralRobots</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federated.press/@NiftyLinks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NiftyLinks</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@adriandaub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adriandaub</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@davetroy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davetroy</span></a></span> </p><p>(3/3)</p><p>"...<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transhumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transhumanism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Extropianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extropianism</span></a>,<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Singularitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singularitarianism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmism</span></a>,<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rationalism</span></a>, <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EffectiveAltruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EffectiveAltruism</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Longtermism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longtermism</span></a>." (1)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESCREAL</span></a></p><p>All pretty unwieldy and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> concepts by themselves, it gets even more complicated when they merge.</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonspectator.org/unders</span><span class="invisible">tanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/</span></a></p>
FeralRobots<p>The only pathways I see from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanExtinction</span></a> involve humans making decisions to point AI in certain directions - &amp; persisting in keeping it pointed in those directions through many decision gates.</p><p>IOW, the path to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> isn't from AI, it's from human decisions. Such as decisions fostered by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EffectiveAltruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EffectiveAltruism</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESCREAL</span></a> ideologies, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corporatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporatism</span></a>, etc. Rationalizations built on self-deluded self-serving nonsense about hypothetical future beings (just warmed-over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmism</span></a>).</p>
ReformOrDDRevolution<p>One more space themed post or so, then on to socialist realism for a change.</p><p>USSR Cosmonauts, K.V. Kukulieva &amp; B.N. Kukuliev, 1980</p><p>From what I can tell, this was made as part of a series of miniature paintings to honor Yuri <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/Gagarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gagarin</span></a> and the cosmonauts. The artists were a wife and husband duo who were from Plaekh, a town known for their folk art and miniature paintings in this style.</p><p>Here is a pdf of the entire book: <a href="https://partidopirata.com.ar/~unperson/gagarin.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">partidopirata.com.ar/~unperson</span><span class="invisible">/gagarin.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communism</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/Cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmism</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Socialism</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a></p>
ReformOrDDRevolution<p><a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/goals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goals</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmism</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://toots.matapacos.dog/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
nadin brzezinski<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dugin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stateterrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stateterrorism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cosmism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Occult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Occult</span></a> </p><p>And are we heading for a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moscow</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/dugin-nationalism-and-state-terrorism-7c430984b895" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/dug</span><span class="invisible">in-nationalism-and-state-terrorism-7c430984b895</span></a></p>