Dr. Émile P. Torres
@xriskology
Philosopher & historian of all things related to human extinction. PhD. Co-host of "Dystopia Now" w/ Kate Willett. Musician w/ WonderLost. 🇺🇸
Got this nice message the other day about my book from someone at the London Review of Books. Sharing it with permission! :-)
I watched a fantastic documentary about this sort of dystopia the other week, titled something like "Black Mirror." Have you seen it? :-)
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China has also lifted about 800 million -- million!! -- people out of poverty since the 1970s. Talk about effective altruism!
A Tale of Two Economic Systems
"Make Entropy Great Again" is the dumbest and least inspiring normative futurology that I've ever come across.
gm. We are going to win.
Massacre upon massacre. Mass starvation. But hey, let’s keep arguing about placards on college campuses. Genocide:
Gaza's reality: Palestinians aren't just being starved. They're being shot while seeking aid. More than 1,000 have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry & the UN. 60% have been killed while trying to reach GHF sites.
I'm quoted in this article about EA. Check it out here: hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n…
Liron is, sadly, a genocide apologist (I can't retweet this without mentioning it) -- but his comments on Beff below are 100% accurate and on point. There really is no other word for Beff's worldview than "dumb."
When you start digging into how dumb @BasedBeffJezos is, the rabbit hole goes deep… In this recent clip, Beff is claiming that humanity's ultimate goal should be to trash all resources as fast as possible — slash and burn the entire cosmos to make thermodynamic entropy number…
WTF no.
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OMFG I hate this timeline!!
As an artist I am in spiritual pain seeing museums & art galleries accepting generative AI into their exhibits. I want to cry. In fact I am crying. This is awful.
What is even happening anymore.
Barack Obama led a secret coup against President Biden, and we're supposed to be shocked he led a secret coup against President Trump? What we have is a pattern of behavior.
This is the only rational response at this point.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “My kid will never, ever be smarter than an AI. That will never happen... My kid will never be smarter—and they’ll never know a world where PRODUCTS and services aren’t way smarter than them.” That doesn’t sound like a future I would want for any child.
Absolute immunity, though!! Obama can just claim this was an "official act." Crime committed? Nope!! Thanks to Trump's Supreme Court! This is all a big nothingburger to keep people from thinking about Trump and Epstein.
Wow. DNI Tulsi Gabbard just confirmed that her criminal referral to the DOJ directly implicates President Obama: REPORTER: Are you referring former President Obama to the DOJ for criminal implications? DNI TULSI GABBARD: "Correct."
Poor wildlife -- this is still so noisy, and it kicks up so much dust. Amazing how we live on a planet with billions of other species but, in general, couldn't care less about our impact on them.
We are excited to share this raw flight footage including take-off and landing, all with real sound. No special effects, no CGI, no AI, pure engineering. Enjoy the future! A fully functional real-world "speeder bike" that so far only existed in sci-fi movies is finally here.
"at least in the near term." Is there anyone more dangerous in the world today than these TESCREAL pro-extinctionists? (I say "TESCREAL" because there are many pro-extinctionist views--only one of which has significant power.)
My own definition of WS does involve it treating us well, at least in the near term (it’s in the essay danfaggella.com/worthy) But long term, the flame is more important than the torch danfaggella.com/flame, and as a species we do need to face and discuss this
2 years ago today, we set the bird free
2 years ago today, we set the bird free
Interesting read ....
100%. See my articles about this very topic here: x.com/xriskology/sta…