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luke5441today at 5:02 PM1 replyview on HN

Looking into the relationship a bit, I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

> Gebru and Torres argue that these ideologies should be treated as an "interconnected and overlapping" group with shared origins. They claim these constitute 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 on artificial intelligence. As such, the acronym is sometimes used to criticize a perceived belief system associated with Big Tech.


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dgellowtoday at 7:00 PM

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that page