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2026-07-21 00:35 UTC
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
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The TESCREAL Framing: The term TESCREAL (Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularity, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism) is used by critics to lump together tech-adjacent philosophies that they feel elevate sci-fi hypotheticals—like machine sentience or distant existential threats—over immediate social accountability.
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@appassionato@mastodon.social 2026-07-21 00:36
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social 3/ Confusing Outputs for Awareness: Opponents view citing an LLM's self-reported probability of consciousness (e.g., asking a model if it is conscious and analyzing its reply) as a fundamental misunderstanding of next-token prediction, treating sophisticated pattern matching as genuine internal experience. #AI #LLMs #consciousness