I listened to a recent episode of Cal Newport's "Deep Questions" podcast, where he interviews Emile P. Torres. Cal says that if you want to understand what is happening in AI, you have to understand the futurist ideologies that shape the people running the frontier labs. Torres is a researcher who studies eschatological and utopian movements. They spent a decade inside this movement as a true believer, published in it, worked as a research assistant to Ray Kurzweil, did a stint at Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and then defected in 2019.TESCREALTorres coined "TESCREAL" with the computer...