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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 20d

"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...

Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?

Virginia family farmers have planted American chestnut seedlings that come from an old grove that survived the 20th century blight. Will the trees survive?

barnraisingmedia.com

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Nacho @nachonachete.bsky.social · 21h

"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".

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 1d

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...

The "Slopacalypse" Is Here: AI Is an Unmitigated Disaster for Society

Sora 2, deepfakes, disinformation, and slop — plus some hilarious bloopers!

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 1d

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...

The "Slopacalypse" Is Here: AI Is an Unmitigated Disaster for Society

Sora 2, deepfakes, disinformation, and slop — plus some hilarious bloopers!

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 23h

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...

Dr. Émile P. Torres 🛑 on X: ""Slopacalypse" Now: AI Is an Unmitigated Disaster for Society! The profound dangers of AI slop, deepfakes, and disinformation polluting the information ecosystems of the Internet have never been clearer after OpenAI released its video-generation app Sora 2 on September 30. A 🧵. https://t.co/MXwwfyE75g" / X

"Slopacalypse" Now: AI Is an Unmitigated Disaster for Society! The profound dangers of AI slop, deepfakes, and disinformation polluting the information ecosystems of the Internet have never been clearer after OpenAI released its video-generation app Sora 2 on September 30. A 🧵. https://t.co/MXwwfyE75g

x.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 1d

YES. The Foresight Institute, in my view, is pretty awful. :-0

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 1d

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...

The "Slopacalypse" Is Here: AI Is an Unmitigated Disaster for Society

Sora 2, deepfakes, disinformation, and slop — plus some hilarious bloopers!

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

Sigh.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

Lol.

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

OH MY GOD Steven Pinker is one of the judges of this meme contest. OMG! LOL.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

"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.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

That Pavement show continues to be one of my top highlights in Germany! Thanks so much for making it happen. :-) Really hope you're doing well, and let's reconnect sometime on Signal.

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

Great way to put it!

Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

🎯The REAL "Great Replacement" conspiracy is actually even weirder than the imaginary one! 🧵

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

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:

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

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:

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

It's long, but I think it's worth having in the public record. Thanks for reading, and don't forget to subscribe!

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/democracy-...

Democracy Is a Really Bad System and AI-Induced Human Extinction Would Be Just Fine: My Conversation with Dr. Richard Sutton

The Turing Award winner chats with me about a wide range of issues, and what he says is eye-popping.

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 10d

❮ “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.” ❯

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 10d

New article just dropped! The claim that AGI is imminent is a lie. Stop believing it. Scaling up LLMs won't get us there, but that hasn't deterred the AI hypesters from making outrageously absurd claims about AGI being right around the temporal corner. Read it 👇👇👇

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 10d

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:

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday

firstmonday.org

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

Gah! I can't believe I wasn't following you here on Bluesky. That's now been rectified! :-)

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 6d

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

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 8d

New article!! I have some incredibly exciting news to announce: I'll be writing a book next year for Verso about the TESCREAL ideologies, Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism, eugenics in the tech world, and the AGI race. More details are included here: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-right-...

The Right Time for a Realtime Roundup!

Here are the fun topics we covered over the past two months!

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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samcborn.bsky.social @samcborn.bsky.social · 5d

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

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · Sep 10

Part 2 of 3 on Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism, an extremely important topic (imo) that almost no one is talking about right now. Lots of people in Silicon Valley WANT our species to die out in the near future by being replaced by AGI. Some receipts:

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/meet-the-r...

Meet the Radical Silicon Valley Pro-Extinctionists!

Pro-extinctionism is no longer a minority view — to the contrary, it's becoming the mainstream position within Silicon Valley, which is terrifying because these people are serious.

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

and leave a comment. I'd love to know what you think!

(I'll be exploring this issue in my forthcoming book, so your feedback is very much appreciated! :-)

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

antinatalism, which says that it's unethical to have children AND that there should be no future generations. In contrast, replacement antinatalism says that it's unethical to have children YET THERE SHOULD BE future generations--in the form of nonbiological AGIs. Check it out ...

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

Basically, these replacement antinatalists believe that it's "fundamentally unethical" to have kids because the future is digital, and hence there's no point to bringing new biological people into the world. It's a fascinating new twist on traditional

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-strang...

The Strange Rise of Antinatalism in Silicon Valley

Most of us are aware that pronatalism is popular within Silicon Valley. But there's a new kind of antinatalism that's catching on, too! In this article, I give it a name: replacement antinatalism.

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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