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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://progressives.social/users/chargrille/statuses/110743750153768757">Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 13:22:12 JST</a><a href="https://progressives.social/@chargrille" title="chargrille@progressives.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/theme/gnusocialjp/default-avatar-stream.png" width="48" height="48" alt="Erin Conroy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Erin Conroy</a><div><a href="https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110743641742337146" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>As an aside: the things Dorsey allows to be known about himself - longtermist-jargon slinging "libertarian" who pals around with fascists - are certainly much less scary than what he keeps to himself.</p><p>Longtermisim: "a bizarre &amp; dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics &amp; capitalism" <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/@xriskology">@xriskology</a> </p><p>See <a href="https://www.longtermism-hub.com/critiques" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.longtermism-hub.com/critiques</a> on longtermism &amp; its billionaire tech bro proponents.</p><p>Longtermism is incompatible with democracy &amp; its proponents' next step is feed us authoritarian agitprop. GOP is an ally.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1820105#notice-3570262">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-07-20T13:22:12+09:00" title="Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 13:22:12 JST">Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 13:22:12 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110743750153768757" rel="external" title="Sent from progressives.social via ActivityPub">progressives.social</a></span></span><a href="https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110743750153768757">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1284611">"nuclear war, global pandemics and runaway climate change. But Bostrom also takes seriously the idea that we already live in a giant computer simulation that could get shut down at any moment (yet another idea that Musk seems to have gotten from Bostrom). Bostrom further lists "dysgenic pressures" as an existential risk, whereby less "intellectually talented" people (those with "lower IQs") outbreed people with superior intellects.This is, of course, straight out of the handbook of eugenics, which should be unsurprising: the term "transhumanism" was popularized in the 20th century by Julian Huxley, who from 1959 to 1962 was the president of the British Eugenics Society. In other words, transhumanism is the child of eugenics, an updated version of the belief that we should use science and technology to improve the "human stock."It should be clear from this why the "Future of Humanity Institute" sends a shiver up my spine. This institute isn't just focused on what the future might be like. It's advocating for a very particular worldview — the longtermist worldview — that it hopes to actualize by influencing world governments and tech billionaires. And to this point, its efforts are paying off.Robin Hanson is, alongside William MacAskill, a "research associate" at the Future of Humanity Institute. He is also a "men's rights" advocate who has been involved in transhumanism since the 1990s. In his contribution to the 2008 book "Global</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-progressives.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/110/743/689/682/485/019/original/206e201750e1beb1.png" rel="external">https://sb-progressives.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/110/743/689/682/485/019/original/206e201750e1beb1.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1284612">Selling "Longtermism": How PR and Marketing Drive a Controversial New MovementBy Emile P. Torres. Salon. Published September 10, 2022Excerpt:Although the longtermists do not, so far as | know, describe what they're doing this way, we might identify two phases of spreading their ideology: Phase One involved infiltrating governments, encouraging people to pursue high-paying jobs to donate more for the cause and wooing billionaires like Elon Musk — and this has been wildly successful. ... Phase Two is what we're seeing right now with the recent media blitz promoting longtermism, with articles written by or about William MacAskill, longtermism's poster boy, in outlets like the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Guardian, BBC and TIME. Having spread their influence behind the scenes over the many years, members and supporters are now working overtime to sell longtermism to the broader public in hopes of building their movement, as "movement building" is one of the central aims of the community. ... But buyer beware: The EA community, including its longtermist offshoot, places a huge emphasis on marketing, public relations and "brand-management," and hence one should be very cautious about how MacAskill and his longtermist colleagues present their views to the public.</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-progressives.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/110/743/702/698/928/252/original/77fe6a76d8ac861c.png" rel="external">https://sb-progressives.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/110/743/702/698/928/252/original/77fe6a76d8ac861c.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: static.wixstatic.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.longtermism-hub.com/critiques">Critiques | Longtermism Hub</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Longtermism may be the most influential—and dangerous—secular ideology that few people outside of elite universities and Silicon Valley have heard about.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 13:22:12 JSTErin Conroy
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As an aside: the things Dorsey allows to be known about himself - longtermist-jargon slinging "libertarian" who pals around with fascists - are certainly much less scary than what he keeps to himself.
Longtermisim: "a bizarre & dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics & capitalism" @xriskology
See https://www.longtermism-hub.com/critiques on longtermism & its billionaire tech bro proponents.
Longtermism is incompatible with democracy & its proponents' next step is feed us authoritarian agitprop. GOP is an ally.
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