Post #3916795
2026-07-11 00:08 UTC
There is a plan, but it is not the plan people think it is.
There's an initialization people at large need to learn: [TESCREAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL). It's essentially a religious movement (though the loose association of people in it would not agree to that label) that comes straight out of the pages of LessWrong, which is itself effectively an AI religious cult, complete with its own eschaton in the form of a godlike AI at the end of time that will resurrect all of humanity in the form of algorithmic simulacra, eternally punishing those who did not work toward helping it come into existence. (But no, it's not even slightly a religion. 🙄)
So all these AI techbrodouches? Their fanatical devotion to the "AGI" that's coming just around the corner? Their utter contempt for any form of consequences their literally fantastic beliefs and actions may hold? There's a reason for that, and that reason aligns with the neologism TESCREAL.
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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2026-07-11 05:59
I was already thinking it is a kind of belief system. Otherwise all the grandios claims what AI can do would be checked carefully, like, you know, in science. Trying to falsify hypotheses. And for extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence. But tech had already a tendency for cargo-culting.Things like “agile” practised like a religion. Tech companies acting like a cult. Free speech, critical thinking, or democratic decisions in a company? That would be communism.