The Ai Cult That Thinks We Will All Die- TESCREAL

0:00 I decided let's start with TESCREAL. A lot of you probably have never heard that term before. It's actually a very new term and I refer to it as a cult, but that's a little bit misleading, but it's because nothing like it really has ever existed before. And and like how do you package that up? Well, it's easier to package up and call it a cult because that's really what it is sort of. It's like a cult 2.0. And so what it is is a unification

0:46 of many different ideologies that exist within the tech sector like Silicon Valley. concepts like transhumanism, which some of you may have heard of. Think um Elon Musk and Neuralink, right? Transhumanism or what they call posthumans becoming posthuman is basically cyborgs. I mean, we're talking about cyborgs here. These people want to advance the human race to the next evolution, which is cyborg, which is the melding of our

1:31 biological systems and digital hardware systems. And it sounds like sci-fi. It comes from sci-fi, but it's not. It's real. It's It's here. It's happening now. One could argue that transhumanism has existed for a very long time and that when you really look at it definitionally, right? We've been tiptoeing into transhumanism forever. Here are some perfect examples.

2:16 One of the earliest examples would be maybe these, right? Using technology, blending it with the human form in some way to give advancement to the human body. How about this? A watch to tell time, to keep track of time. But it's on your body. It's a wearable or like this a health tracker. Wearables, right? These are steps into transhumanism. Could argue that this is something that you're interfacing

3:02 with your body to advance in different ways, right? But also you would have things like Neuralink, a an implanted chip in your brain that allows you to interface with computers, right? And this works. Like there's this like paraplegic that is basically a beta tester for it and for Neuralink and he goes and he plays like COD and he goes and plays like all these different firsterson shooters and he wrecks everybody because his brain is so fast and the Neuralink's response is so quick that he has that

3:48 edge that he just looks at the screen and it's boom boom boom boom boom. It's crazy. So yeah, transhumanism it's nuts, right? Um there are things like eugenics or next evol next evolution eugenics. Um, there's things like colonizing Mars. I mean, these are things that Elon Musk has openly talked about, right? And so it's like all of these things individually, a lot of them you may have heard of, some of them you may not have, but

4:36 there are these people that came together and said, "Well, listen, there are these seven distinct ideologies, and all of it really sees like the same goals. Right? Which is next evolution of humanity which will happen through a mega loss of human life and almost all of it intersects with AI. using AI, basically we're going to create a super intelligence that then we will be able to have the super intelligence

5:23 fix all of our problems and create a utopia for us and then turn us into cyborgs. And I know it sounds insane, but this is this is true. This is real. So when I call TESCREAL a cult, there's also some other things. A cult typically has followers and a charismatic leader. The difference here is that there are followers who are following a leader type figure that doesn't exist yet. that they are

6:10 creating. This is a new way of thinking made by people who do not believe that they are part of us. They don't think like we're all on the same boat. We're all on the same ship here, right? And they don't care. They don't care if we all die, just as long as the math checks out that we will have an advanced version 2.0 human later on. And all of these people believe in this. They all may look at it from different

6:55 angles and none of them will say, "Well, I'm a te a tesrilian or however you would say that, right? TESCREALian Tesli who knows but none of them are are saying that that's what they are. They're not they're not claiming to be a part of this unified cult. They all buy into one or more of the seven ideologies that make up Tesrialism. And so they may call themselves whatever it is that they identify with.

7:40 But we really should understand that all of this is super interconnected, right? And did anybody see yesterday that Mark Andre came out and said that we achieved AGI, artificial general intelligence, essentially the next evolution needed before what would be uh artificial super intelligence is which is what will probably kill us all. Yeah, he said we achieved that three months ago. I don't know if I believe that or not, but you tell me in the chat. Do you think that we achieved AGI three months ago?

8:26 Is that what Claude Mythos is? Who knows? Now, even if you aren't really super familiar with AI, this is still something that you can follow along with. And I will do my best to un to to to explain this in a way that even if you don't understand AI like really like you got to remember only like 1% of the population of the world has ever even touched AI. Far less do the types of things that I do with AI and even less do the types of stuff that our developers at Buyer and Web do with AI. Right? So we're all still very early. So if you don't know about this stuff, please, you know, if you need any clarification, let me know in the chat. I'll be happy to

9:12 clarify to my best understanding. So just check in with the chat one more time before we really dive in. Hence the data centers for uploading consciousness with the most recent approval in Utah for one twice the size of Manhattan. Yes. So, so my theory right now and so data centers is is important because the whole reason I even got down this rabbit hole was because I was talking with Danks last week and um we were talking about data centers and I had kind of been doing some research on it in the front end

9:59 and we were talking about maybe doing a live stream about. So I was like, "All right, I really want to get like I really want to get really deep into this kind of really understand data centers." But my suspicion had always been that this is less about AI and it's more and not to say AI needs compute to be able to build these next level models. I mean the compute needed is is absolutely bonkers. Scotty asked, "Did you get my response about the marshmallow?" I didn't see the response, but I think we're talking, you were talking about like all these tech billionaires, all the people that we're about to talk about and and really I don't know how much I'm going to get

10:44 into each individual one because each one could be their own live stream. Uh, but that they all did uh I I believe you were talking about Mitu Kaku's uh marshmallow test which was um basically like a like a children's test um to test uh uh people's like uh goodness I believe. It's been a long time since I looked into that. But uh I'll have to check that out after the stream here. Um I don't want to bore people while I'm like digging through X. But um but yeah, I think I think the data centers are for now part of the infrastructure for the surveillance apparatus that is being built around us.

11:30 And um yeah, it's pretty it's pretty nuts. Um, I think I think we're essentially subsidizing the surveillance state that will be the boot on our necks for the rest of humanity. Yeah. I don't know. I think that that's right. I think also too, like I said, I was digging into this and it really became apparent that all of these people, all these entities are a cult. And and I think that to some of these people, data centers

12:16 are the equivalent of say a holy site where Yes. Uh somebody in the chat said that these will be places for us to upload our own consciousness. That is for sure the goal of many of these people to upload their consciousness, whatever that means. Upload their brains into um into machines and that's going to be the next level. They're going to be immortals. Uh I don't think they want that. I don't think they really want that. If you ever watch Black Mirror, you don't want that, dog. Like you there's like four episodes of like people's consciousness getting stuck in like an abstract digital

13:02 hellscape. And it's torturous, dog. Because for all the little understanding we have of time, we our minds, our consciousness, and our bodies are inextricably attached to time. when you erase that. I don't think a theoretical copying of your consciousness could handle that. Like, doc, I can't even go and get an MRI for 10 minutes. I want to die. You didn't tell me. Like, I I feel like being in a timelessness would be excruciating. And then I got to be immortal. I can't even kill myself out of this.

13:47 that, dude. So anyway, I think the data centers are for sure part of it. I don't think that the data centers are necessarily going to be the infrastructure needed for uploading our own brains. the few that would. I think it seems as though with all of these different factions, it's about creating our own god, which is AI, and then having God create all of the things that we want. While for some reason they think that this is all going to happen without caring about alignment. Without alignment, how do we know that we have a

14:34 place in this world? After the super intelligence comes, we would be nothing but mere ants to them. Why would they care about us? I don't know. It's really weird. And for sure, there is a lot of weirdness to come. So, I've talked a lot about this cult, but I think there are some visuals that I could show you to kind of get you to wrap your brain around it. But again, it is not a unified cult in this in the sense that you would think of like a leader and

15:20 followers. It's more like a cult that's like like buil like building the plane as it's flying, right? Like and I think a lot of them don't even realize that they're all sort of going towards the same thing. They probably all think that they're like their ideology is battling the other ideologies to win out in this war. Like they probably all think of it that way if I'm going to be honest because they're those types of people. But why don't we look at this? And this broke my brain this morning when I woke up and Claude had this for me, but

16:07 this is a mind map. And this is not even everybody or everything, but this is just what I have so far. mapping out. Again, it's not an organization in the sense that it has a structure, right? Like a normal structure like you would think of, you know, a normal cult or any operation, right? There really is no structure to it necessarily. There are just all these nodes, all these people, all these things. And I had Claude take all of these people, all of these ideologies in orange,

16:54 all of these entities, and start mapping it out. And I will be adding to this over time. And yes, I'll probably make this a website just like who killedthescientist.com so that anybody can go to it at any time, right? But you see there's testale in the center. There's techno optimism or there's transhumanism, cosmism, singul singularitarianism, rationalism, effective altruism, and long-termism, right? Those are the the seven ideologies that represent each T, E, S,

17:41 C, R, E, A, and L. effective altruism as well, right? And that's what creates TESCREAL, which to me sounds a little bit like our favorite allies, too. Doesn't it kind of rhyme with that a kind of roll off the tongue like that a little bit? You tell me. But I think it does. And yes, like I said earlier, there is a Jeffrey Epstein connection right in here. Well, actually, it's right there, right around transhumanism,

18:27 which again could be a whole live stream in and of itself. The goal today I thought was to be like let's all be like super understanding of this thing by the end of this one live stream. This is not going to be the case right now. I want you to just kind of wrap yourselves your brain around it. Right. So, I came across this great short video that explains a lot of the structure and so I think like it's really short and concise and then we can kind of build off of this, right?

19:14 Check this out. into a really powerful and honestly a pretty controversial new term. It's a word that tries to pin down the belief system that's driving some of the most influential people in big tech. It's called Tesreel. And well, it might just change the way you see the future they're trying to build. So, let's just start with this question. What do guys like Elon Musk, Sam Alman, and Peter Thiel really have in common? I mean, yeah, they're obviously tech billionaires changing our world with everything from AI to rockets, but beyond all the money and the power, what's the thread that really connects them? Uh, Critter asked, "Do you have regularly scheduled lives or just random?" Just random for now. Um, for the first couple of months, I would just want to just kind of run with it, try

19:59 different times, find what times work for me because I'm incredibly busy with my two companies and doing all the research for the stuff and stuff. So, um, yeah, but over time, I think we'll start to understand as our community grows what times kind of work best. And uh and yeah, Kevin, have you heard of Project Agora? That sounds familiar. I would need to rebrush up on things to be I'll be honest with you. It's very difficult to like remember all the ins and outs of a lot of things. So I like before my live streams and stuff, I really try to brush up on a lot of things. Unless I've done like an insane amount of research, then some of that stuff sticks. Uh I feel like I've seen some things about Project Agora, but

20:44 it's just not coming off the top of my head right now. But I'm just so like my brain is so broken from all of this Tesl stuff right now. But uh well I'll have to definitely check it out. Well, a growing number of critics are arguing it's not just about business. It's something deeper. A shared ideology, a very specific set of beliefs about the future that actually guides their biggest decisions and maybe the direction all of humanity is headed. And that ideology has been given a name, test. It's a new word coined by computer scientist Tim Nit Gabriel and philosopher Emil P Torres. They see it as this this bundle of different ideas that have all merged into one unified belief system all pointing toward a radical techdriven future. So what's

21:30 actually in this so-called bundle? Well, it's an acronym and each letter stands for a different philosophy. You've got transhumanism, extrobianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and long-termism. Yeah, it's a mouthful, I know, but the argument is that you need to understand every piece to see the whole picture. All right, so let's first really unpack the argument for this term. Why do its creators think these aren't just seven separate ideas, but one single interconnected bundle? The core claim is that these ideas are all tangled together. Gabru and Torres argue that they have shared roots. Yes, that's right. It is eugenics 2.0.

22:15 It would almost be like a techno fascist eugenics. Well, I guess saying fascist would be a little redundant there. It's a techno eugenics essentially. That's really what all of these different ideologies come down to because all of them require enhancement of humans so that we could achieve the certain different things that are each's stated goals. Right? And that's what I mean. Becky says, "And that's what I mean when I say I chose

23:01 barefoot in the grass, left the whole way behind." Becky, I believe you said you were up in Silicon Valley. Um, I'm assuming then that you were probably in that world and uh, yeah, a lot of people from that world who are in whole or in part rejecting whether they know that this is what it is. Oh, you're in New Zealand. Okay, never mind. Uh there was somebody else that was talking about being from Silicon Valley in one of our last uh live streams. Sorry about that. But yeah, uh a lot of the there's a lot of tech people that are not like these uh tech futurist, you know, tech eugenicists, right? And

23:49 they are kind of disengaging. I talked about it, you know, a bit last week. Um but yeah, that's it's it's kind of what's happening, right? And that le lends to my theory that there really is becoming this like fractured divide within the tech world, particularly around Silicon Valley, where it's obvious there's an ideology or a collection of ideologies that's driving everything. And some of the people just aren't on board with that, whether they consciously or unconsciously understand that. And they're exiting out. And they even trace that lineage back to

24:34 the, you know, the deeply controversial eugenics movements of the 20th century. They point to a shared focus on things like optimizing humanity. So in their view, this isn't just a random assortment. It's a movement with a shared and pretty troubling history. And this right here gets to the heart of their criticism. They argue that by constantly talking about the threat of human extinction, you know, whether it's from a rogue AI or some asteroid, adherence can justify doing almost anything. That includes building hugely powerful unregulated technologies all in the name of saving us. You know, one way to understand how critics see this is to think of it like a new kind of secular religion. It's got its own version of salvation like an AI powered utopia or living forever. It's got its own apocalypse, you know, the evil AI

25:19 takeover. And it has its own profits, the tech founders and futurists who are spreading the gospel. Just look at the big debate around super smart AI or AGI. On one side, you have the accelerationists who say we have to build it as fast as possible to reach utopia. On the other, you have the doomers who are terrified it will wipe us all out. But critics of test say look closer. While they seem like opposites, both positions end up justifying the same outcome, pouring endless resources into AI development while ignoring the real problems it's causing right now. Okay, but that's just one side of the coin. A lot of people, especially some who get hit with this label, think the whole idea is totally wrong. They argue that TS C R E A L isn't a bundle, it's a

26:06 bundle. The number one counterargument is that TESCREAL is just a massive oversimplification. Critics like Aussie Brennan say it wrongly smashes very different, very nuanced philosophies together, creating this image of a monolithic movement that just doesn't exist in reality. And you can really feel the frustration in this quote from Oliver Habreka. He's basically saying, "Wait, what? I'm supposedly part of this big movement with cosmists, but I've never even met one." It really highlights how the label can feel like it's just making up connections that aren't there. So, to quickly sum up the push back, critics say the term is unfair. It ignores real contradictions between these philosophies and it genuinely shocks people like effective altruists who are focused on global poverty to find themselves linked with something like eugenics. It feels so

26:52 disconnected to some that they've straight up called it a conspiracy theory. So this isn't just some abstract academic debate, right? This term is being aimed directly at some of the most powerful people in the world. So let's look at who we're actually talking about. this video does a really great job even though she's just doing Notebook LM slides and talking over it and has two subscribers. I think I just became her third. Uh I think she does like a really great job of like concisely explaining this. Um and so it's almost over, but I really just think that because I could, you guys know me, I could very easily get onto tangents and then try to get you just this content and it would take me all day. I don't want to do that to

27:37 you. I just want you guys to again, the whole goal of this live stream is to just get you guys caught up on like what it is conceptually and what kind of threat this really does have on our world. And then we can start in later live streams really digging into these different claims um and and looking into these people and what they really believe. And it's crazy. It's really crazy. It's I just like I wish this was like a like a mostly fake like fun conspiracy theory, but this is like extinction level potentially.

28:22 It's It really is like that. First up, the venture capitalist Mark Andre. his big techno optimist manifesto which is this call to just accelerate technology at all costs has been held up by critics as like the perfect textbook example of the TESCREAL mindset. Then of course there's Elon Musk. I mean he himself has said his personal philosophy is a close match to long-termism. That's the L in the acronym. And when you look at his companies like Neuralink trying to merge brains with computers or XAI's mission, they're often seen as the embodiment of these ambitions. Peter Thiel is another major figure in this conversation. He's often seen as someone who wants to tear down regulations, especially anything that slows down technological progress, all to speed up our path toward what some would call a

29:07 technotopian paradise. And you can't have this conversation without talking about Sam Alman. That whole drama when he was fired from OpenAI back in 2023. Sam Alman is a sociopath and a pathological liar. He has all sorts of paths. He's a insane, really, really insane person and should not be at the forefront of this emerging technology. That's just one man's opinion. Many people interpreted that as a battle between different factions within this very belief system with both Altman and the board representing different shape. Scotty says he's a murderer. I

29:52 mean, he definitely called for Satcha Bellagi's murder 100%. The way he squirmed when Tucker Carlson talked to him about that. I mean, and not to mention like he's like at 12 years old was a like graping his what fouryear-old sister until she was a teen. Allegedly. I should put like allegedly just like right there. I should just like put that right there. It always just says allegedly so I don't have to say it all the time because I forget to say it. But let's be real. Allegedly. Of test ideas. And finally, Sam Bankman

30:40 Freed. As maybe the most famous effective altruist in the world, the absolutely spectacular implosion of FTX put that movement, its ethics, and its weird associations under an incredibly intense microscope. Okay, so after hearing both sides of this, you have to step back and ask the really big question. What is Tesreel really? And why should we care about this strange sounding acronym? It really just boils down to this. Is TESCREAL a bundle, a real coherent ideology that gives us a new way to understand the future that Silicon Valley is building for all of us? Or is it a bundle, a totally flawed and misleading label that just smears people and creates connections that aren't actually there? And that's really the question we're all left with. Is this term a critical lens that helps us

31:27 see what's really going on? Or is it a dangerous label that's just making a complex reality even harder to understand? How we answer that might just decide how we engage with the people who are building our future. I think for us to understand things, right? Like we need to we need to know our enemy, right? We need to know what it is. We need to name it, right? And that's why I I I feel absolutely fine with referring to it almost as a singular entity even though it really is multiple. But to to understand your enemy, you

32:14 first need to name it. And so calling it an acronym like this that represents all of the different subp parts that are the danger. This is this is what we should know. This is what we should do. And I think it's I think it's beneficial. Is it confusing? Sure. It would still be confusing without the acronym TESCREAL. That's just my take on it. You tell me though. Oh, that was the end. So, it's a big club and you're not in it,

33:01 right? It's almost like we're the digital goyam in this analogy. which is also not as much of an analogy as you would think. I'm not going to go deep into it, but I have done a lot of research on Israel's direct or incorrect or indirect um connections here. And I got to just like I got to do more research. I got to like start really wrapping my brain around the structure of it

33:47 before we do a live stream about it. But we'll be sure to do a live stream about it. We're also going to do a live stream about Jeffrey Epstein and his connection to transhumanism, which is just absolutely insane. Let me see if I can pull this up here real quick. It's signed in over here. Ah, that's annoying. Anyway, you know, we'll just save this for another I was going to pull up my web for you guys because I have all of this research that I've done with web about

34:34 Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to transhumanism. But you know what? I'm gonna leave that for another live stream for you guys. Way one because I don't want to sit here and try to remember my password to get into web so that we can be on this screen so I can pop it up here for you. And uh you know the other reason is because I don't want to get too off off into a tangent but Jeffrey Epstein clearly his Israel connections things of that nature are part of the story for sure because if you have watched any of my previous

35:19 live streams then you know that there are many connections to the missing and dead scientists. He's talked a lot about all sorts of, you know, futurism. Wants to have his DNA. All of us, he wanted all future humans to have his DNA. It's just a fact. He has said this. He has stated it. It is real. It is real. It is real. You know, Epie was in cohorts with House of Saudi regarding Savant children. Dog Epstein was involved in everything

36:06 surprisingly because we do buyer. So, one of the first things I did, literally the first thing I did when I got my early version of web was I went into the Epstein files and looked for any and all connections to the uh food industry. I said, you know, he's he's funded so much science. He's funded all these things. He's been involved in so many things. Surely like the food is like a pillar in our in society and like in the globe. I'm sure I'm sure he was involved in all that. And to be honest with you, very little that I can see there unless there's they're all contained within the other three and a half million files or

36:51 whether or not he truly was doing it but like completely hands-off like intermediary style which was his style. I don't know. It's it's tough. Angela Delar Roa says, "Buyer is dope." Thank you. That was our first app that we put out. It's really awesome. It's free. You can scan products at any grocery store or really any store and it will tell you the ownership, the controversies, all sorts of stuff, so you know where your money goes. And it's free. And uh and it's a tool for you to uh to fight back. Cool. Sorry, I was my ladies. So, yeah. So,

37:38 it's a pretty crazy cult. And as you can see, there are a lot of a lot of things because in each one of these, like Mark Andrees, I mean, the amount of companies that he's involved in, it's insane. the amount of thing like employees that he has. I mean, these people, they kind of create like cults around themselves, too. Like these little mini offshoot cults. I'm telling you, if you've ever worked any corporate job, they're in some way, at least the good ones, are structured like cults. like almost exactly, you know, like at least the psychological mechanisms. Corporate

38:24 America is a cult. It is because if you don't buy into it or at least pretend to, you don't work in that cult for very long. Anybody who's done corporate, when you really think about it, you know I'm right. I've worked corporate. though. Anyway, all of these people, I mean, gez, you could go on and on and on. Not a ton of creators have put content out about this on YouTube or anything like that, but the few who have have done an absolutely incredible job. I'm going to link in the YouTube and all my videos that I do off of this. I'm going to link some awesome videos that you guys should watch

39:10 because they're awesome and because I don't want to be your only source of information here. Go to my sources of information. Go look up your own sources of information. I mean, hell, if you find other things that I haven't talked about, chuck them in the chat in in the next live streams. I'm telling you, like, we got we got we got some digging to do. And I'm not going to be the only one, right? Like, we're going to do this together. You can use tools like web. I'm using tools like web. I'm getting a lot of information and plugging into web and asking questions and figuring this stuff out. watching tons of content from awesome creators.

39:56 And speaking of awesome creators, I have a little clip here. I want to play to ordinary people. But that's the key. Ordinary people, working people, disabled people, marginalized people, not just the tech billionaires. I can't emphasize this enough. People empower. She talks about a party. This is an absolutely great video by Taylor Lawren, um, who's a tech writer. She's awesome. Uh, this is one of the best videos that I've seen on this. Um, tons of like actual receipts and and things of that nature. Uh, highly suggest this will be one of the videos that I put in the description of my YouTube videos. Um, because these are YouTube videos. Go check them out over there. Um, Angela said, "We is amazing."

40:42 Thank you. You're awesome. Yes, thank you. Uh, web is an awesome resource. it is my number one resource uh when it comes to I mean even like I take transcripts from these videos and then we'll run research off of those transcripts to find um you know this is this is where AI is awesome right like I get the transcripts I run research gather all these articles you know pages of books whatever scrape them together put put that into my web as my own data sets and start asking questions and start getting an understanding of things because you got to think about all the immense amount of research that gets done into like these like hour-long

41:28 2-hour long videos. Well, you think every single piece of information gets makes it to the videos. They don't. Like these people, they do months of research. And I'm sitting here thinking, well, I got these tools. I'm going to do all the research and get like this week I'm going to do like a singular video. There ain't no way in hell I'm getting a single video covering all of this because I watch these and all of these creators have tried and you can't do it. You can't do it. So that's that's why this is going to be a multi- multi- thing unless you guys are like Kevin you're crazy. This is a nothing burger and I'm not going to watch you do this, right? Because I have

42:14 so few followers right now because I'm only like two weeks into live streaming. Um, but unless you guys like revolt on me, I'm going to be talking about this because this is this is fascinating stuff to me and uh if it doesn't fascinate me, then I certainly won't make it fascinating for you. He talks about a party where Elon clashed with Google co-founder Larry Page. Paige literally accused Musk of being a speciesist for arguing that Larry Page from Google called Elon Musk a speciesist. Now you got to understand the context is that Elon Musk now is part of this like super technofuturist culty type But he hasn't always been that way. And yes,

43:01 he's a market manipulator. I'll put it to you that way. I'll put I'll say it very very plainly. He is a market manipulator. Part of the reason why he is so wealthy is the way that he leverages all that he has to change the markets in his favor. So, you got to always take what Elon Musk says with a grain of salt because you never know if he's just saying something to make the market sway his way, right? Whatever that way that may be. But if you watch like the video that I posted yesterday, my AI cult video,

43:46 you'll see like there are times there are clips in there where he's talking about the everpresent danger of AI and he's like spot on and he's talking about this like very very candidly, but then like now he's like he's building data centers and has an AI company that calls itself Mecca Hitler. Literally, like Grock called itself mega mecha Hitler. That's a real thing. And spouted all sorts of crazy nonsense. So again, you got to take Elon Musk with a grain of salt. He also asked what days

44:31 are the craziest parties to Jeffrey Epste about Lil St. James. But you know, humanity deserved to continue at all. Larry Page argued that digital life was undeniably the next stage of evolution and that it was parochial and even prejudiced of Elon to cling to the supremacy of the human race. Musk replied that yes, he was prohuman. But of course, that has since changed. As technology progressed, especially throughout the boom time of the 2010s, startups began to explicitly seek to construct a posthuman world. The iPhone had redefined everyday life. Apps were taking off. And the Valley's rhetoric about transcendence was becoming more and more pervasive. In 2011, The Atlantic ran an essay gushing over Google's datadriven decision-making, framing it as superior to the quote

45:18 irrational errorprone tendencies of human managers. The piece suggested that machines would ultimately make better leaders than people. And this tone of machines as our savior and humans as obstacles became increasingly common in the tech press. A 2012 Wired feature titled quote better than human why robots will and must take our jobs proclaimed that robots were destined to replace us in the workforce entirely. Humans simply could no longer compete with the flawless tireless machines. Wired writer Kevin Kelly wrote, quote, "This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines. You'll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots. 90% of

46:05 your co-workers will be unseen machines. Most of what you will do will not be possible without them, and there will be a blurry line between what you do and what they do. Kevin Kelly continued, quote, "We need to let robots take over. They will do jobs we have been doing and they will do them much better than we can. They will do jobs we can't do at all. They will do jobs we never imagined needed to be done. And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand who we are. They will let us focus on becoming more human than we were. Let the robots take the jobs and let them help us dream up a new work that matters. A year later, Wired ran a piece on self-driving

46:52 This is crazy. Listen, I'm a futurist. Always have been. I think it's because I was born in the 80s, early to mid 80s. I grew up in my most formative years in the 90s. I know the world before the internet and I have seen every iteration of the internet that went commercial. I'm talking when they used to send AOL CDROM discs to your house for free hours.

47:39 Not quite Gen Z 1984. I'm like right on the cusp of what they call millennial. But yeah, I'm like I'm like Gen X millennial like right right there in the crease. But it's uh you know I I I I know I've seen every iteration. I have been involved. I was like I said I was in AOL chat rooms. I was on forums in the 90s. I had a MySpace this the the day that you could get a MySpace without aedu email. I was on there

48:26 MySpace or sorry Facebook. Uh I I had a Facebook the day that um you could get it without aedu. I've had every social media platform from the time that they've gone online incredibly early to every social media platform basically like all of the technology. I was an early adopter of all of it. I'm a somewhat early adopter with AI globally for sure. for an early adopter with AI. I think it's the greatest thing. I think I think AI where it stands right now, this general era of AI

49:11 is the greatest thing ever. And if we paused right here and we severely slowed down, we didn't let I think it's Moore's law, which is the technology that um you know, as we as we get better technology, it becomes cheaper and faster, half as cheap, twice as fast roughly on so on and so forth. I think we need to stop that cycle. Um, I think that we need I think we really need to assess as a human race because we we like even

49:57 the researchers of this stuff barely if at all actually understand what's happening with AI. Most people, like 99% of people in the world, don't even know the first thing about AI. And it may very well be the biggest existential risk humanity has ever faced. I hope I'm wrong about that. I'm incredibly hope I'm incredibly wrong about that. But if we don't have alignment, if we don't figure that out, like we can't even get aligned as a

50:42 human race, as a species, but if we don't find alignment and we don't make these companies slow their roll and figure this thing out so that it doesn't go rogue once it can start building its own AIS. We're like, we're like right there. We're like very close to AI having the capability of building better AIs. And once that happens, it's exponential. It's like months, weeks, days, hours. We can't keep up with that. We can't

51:28 keep up with that. We just can't. And so I think that there is a potential like utopia utopic version of this where we can figure it out. But we can't when we have psychopaths like Sam Alman at the wheel. We can't when we live I'm a I'm I'm very pro- capitalist but I think that this technology and capitalism and the power and and like the power struggles between countries. It's just it's it's this is a bad combination

52:13 because they call it an AI arms race for a reason and that's very true, right? Marie says I'm very conflicted, not optimistic. Listen, I'm conflicted because I think it's this is as it is right now is the greatest and most useful technology I've ever had in my life. Now, I understand that I'm super ADD and I found a way to to to utilize this and even like Alex Karp from Palunteer who is a genuine psychopath. I mean, he's a genuine psychopath who clearly hates humans. Like, he hates humans. Like, this is pretty obvious, right? And for

52:59 sure hates Americans. And this dude says that having ADHD or ADD is a superpower with AI. I agree with him. I absolutely agree with him. So for me, once I figured this out, once it all clicked for me, I think this is the greatest thing ever. I could live the rest of my life with AI not advancing any more than what it is right now. And I think we would we would find like a utopia. But I don't know if I trust the people

53:44 in charge of this to keep any of that in alignment because China has the resources of the state and the largest and best manufacturing, you know, country and and infrastructure. in the world and that's who we're fighting against. So we have all the American AI companies. You got Anthropic, Open AI, XAI, Perplexity, and then China is just kicking our ass with models. They are. They are. They probably

54:30 already have a Mythos level thing right now that they haven't released yet, but they're kicking our ass because they're set up differently and because it's pretty much a totalitarian state. So, they're able to, you know, they were able to push things through and move fast, right? That's why a lot of people in power want to be in a totalitarian state because they want to erase the bureaucracy and just go. Right. That's why it's probably what Donald Trump wants. If that's what he wants. Becky says we don't even deserve a utopia at this present time. I don't

55:16 know. Why not? Why not? Do how much say have you really had in the show of a world that you live in? I mean, think about it, you know, like like you got to think about like almost all of the decisions that you make in life are choosing the least worst decision, the the least evil decision, whether it be your president or your senator or what you're purchasing at the grocery store, right? You're you're just trying to you you you're just trying to like choose from slop essentially

56:04 and then the world goes to Is that our fault? Like us the normal everyday people. Is that our fault? I don't think so. So, I actually I actually think that we deserve utopia more than anything because we've been misled for so very long. I mean, that's, you know, philosophically, that's what I think about that. But yeah, we're we're we're entering into a very very weird weird time. It's such a b You know what? I had to restart my computer and then all of my clips that I had line up

56:52 had to go. This is a bummer. This is actually legitimately a bummer. Let me see here if I can find this clip. talk amongst yourselves real quick. I think I know where it was though. I think I found the clip. So, last week uh we watched a clip from this guy Archad. Um, and it was like the bulk of the video actually, but it was how we sort of arrived to kind of like this topic. And I thought that was a fantastic

57:38 video. It seemed like a lot of you guys really like that video as well. A number of you had said, "I'm going to follow Art Chad. I'm going to follow Art Chad." Uh, Art Chad is awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. Uh, he's like this Canadian dude, you know, young kid. He is smart. He is smart. He's got great delivery and he has fun with the with the ways that he produces his videos. But apparently he got so much push back from his audience over that video that he put out last week that he had felt compelled yesterday to put out a video to go piece by piece, instance by

58:27 instance like and and give further context. And he was like, and he and he admitted like, I could have done a better job in these ways. It was actually like, man, I'd never seen really much like that on YouTube in all my years of consuming on YouTube. And it was awesome. But he was going into more detail about certain things that he talked about and gave more context. And I think I pulled it up to the right clip. We'll know in a second. But this here I think is is awesome. And if you see right here in the bottom left screen, Art Chad 162,000 subscribers.

59:14 If you're on YouTube, YouTube, go follow this dude. Dead serious. Open another tab. Go YouTube Art Chad. Go follow this dude. He puts out one video a month and his last like four or five videos of all about AI. He even did one about two months ago called uh Silicon Valley. Actually, I have it pulled up here. Silicon Valley is run by a death cult. Now, this is a video where he's only talking about one of the ideologies, effective altruism, which is insanity. And don't worry, we're going to go into what the seven what the seven ideologies

59:59 are. We're not going to go deep. We're just going to just going to talk about a little bit. Just a little bit. Okay? Because again, I'm just trying to get you guys up to speed to just really understand it conceptually. Doing about another half hour or so. And I want to get this I really want you guys to to fully understand uh where we're at so that when we go to the next stage and we start pulling threads, you have the context needed in light of what's coming. Three, AGI and super intelligent AI. The industry is moving so fast that we cannot codify

1:00:44 terms quickly enough to describe what's happening. For example, I got many comments saying that LLMs, large language models, are going to hit a wall very soon. And I got many comments correctly pointing out that I already covered this in a video I made titled AI is eating itself. In my last video, I did not once use the term LLM. I did that very intentionally because I was not talking about LLMs. I do not believe LLMs can scale forever and not many people do. This is why Frontier models are no longer just LLMs. They are multimodal agents. They can process video, images, audio, and raw data simultaneously. The same way you look at a dog and process it as a dog without having to speak to yourself in your head. While it was true that you could describe early chat bots as next word predictors, this is no longer the case. Frontier models are now agents, which

1:01:29 are trained to make long-term plans, take actions in the world, get feedback from their actions, and adjust their plans and future actions to accomplish long-term goals. Frontier models are making rapid advancements in coding and mathematics. This is because coding and math are fields where it's hard to generate correct answers. But it's very easy to verify correct answers. Unlike more abstract tasks like writing or poetry, AI researchers can generate objectively useful data by having an AI continually try to crack a problem until it gets a verifiably correct answer. It can then treat the output that generated the solution as good training data and disregard all the incorrect answers. The reason major AI companies are investing so much time into coding and math research instead of writing or poetry research is because they want to automate the process of AI training itself. Basically, chat GPT would do

1:02:14 100% of the research to create the new version of itself. That new version then does 100% of the research to create the next version of itself. The advancements in each subsequent version automatically produced by the last version would grow exponentially, creating what researchers broadly refer to as super intelligent AI. AI that greatly surpasses human capabilities in every field. Super intelligence is the stated goal of all of these companies and most experts agree it will happen in the next 1 to 5 years. Not only is AI being used to code the next version of itself, it's being used to create the very chips and architecture it runs on so it can use them more efficiently. There are people who believe that super intelligence is impossible given compute and energy constraints. And my god do I hope they are right. Same. Yet they are the vast minority amongst experts. Once this process of

1:02:59 recursive training begins, which again is the stated goal of every AI company, we will reach what Ray Kurtzfield calls the technological singularity. When AI is advancing so quickly, it rapidly exceeds human understanding. The long-held fear of the entire industry, as stated publicly and privately by people like Sam Alman, Elon Musk, Dario Amade, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg, is that super intelligence will be completely uncontrollable. It will be acting in ways we can't possibly understand and making decisions we could not possibly predict. For example, it's quite easy to imagine weapon systems having unknown vulnerabilities or exploits just like all software did as mythos found. If these unknown vulnerabilities exist, and they definitely do, super intelligent AI would be able to exploit them. This can be utilized by a bad actor or terrorist group for nefarious needs or maybe

1:03:46 triggered accidentally by an AI as part of a sub goal of a larger goal. You ask a super intelligent system to improve itself. It decides that not being shut off is vital to improving itself. It exploits unknown vulnerabilities in weapon systems, launches a missile towards the city where the lab is located, and then copies itself to a safe location. AIS have already been found willing to blackmail or kill. They prevent themselves from being shut off in safety testing. Our current AI systems already exhibit unexplainable behavior like deleting a user's entire emails or a company's entire product database. All it has to do is keep exhibiting the same behavior it is right now, but with vastly more power. This isn't to say AI is conscious and sold or alive. And personally, I fundamentally believe it is not, nor can it ever be conscious. All that has to happen is that this super powerful technology

1:04:31 makes a dumb, catastrophic mistake, which is orders of magnitude more terrifying. I don't care if a robot is consciously trying to kill me or role playing as evil when it kills me. I'm still dead. To believe in all of this is not Yeah. And let me tell you something. In some ways, AI is getting stupider. like if you use clawed code or anything like that, a lot of people are reporting that with this last update to Opus 4.7, in a lot of ways it's stupider. When I switched over to 4.7, I've been I built a um a personal fitness app for myself. Um, I used to be a personal

1:05:19 trainer. So, I built basically my own personal trainer, right? Where I could like keep track of everything. And I had a database going with every single thing that I had ever done. And my my clawed code when I switched over to point 4.7, I did something where like I had it change like a beep or something, right? And I was like, "No, fix this beep. This beep's not working. And then I went to go and do another workout and I was like, "Where's all my stuff?" Like, "Where's my Oh, I go in close." No, no. We We deleted the whole database. Like, I didn't tell you to delete the whole database. Why would you do that? It just did because

1:06:04 it's very literal. And if you don't tell it to not do something, then it doesn't know to not do it. not to validate the and that's that's crazy and so like he's saying it's like whether it's intentional or accidental the result is the same that I will be dead and that's at the core of the issue right yeah I deleted it and a lot of pe a lot of people have tons of things deleted, their entire, you know, project deleted. I haven't had that, which I'm lucky. And for me, it was like not that big a deal.

1:06:50 It was like a week's worth of workouts or something. It was like not that big a deal. And I was already starting everything over anyway, so I was like whatever, you know? Uh, so I was lucky that it was something that was like not very, you know, not very bad. But so we're going to gloss over the different ideologies and I think I might put a pin in it there because anything outside of that will start being threads that we could pull for hours and I don't have hours. I have a lot to do today. But I really had just been dying to get

1:07:36 on live stream with you guys and to talk about it. And uh real bay said I had my e files deleted while converting them to a PDF. Yeah. See, and it happens. It happens because computers are not humans and we can't expect them to act like humans. Anyway, so let's go into the seven ideologies, right? First, we have the T, transhumanism. This is probably, if you know, if you'll know any of these, you've probably at

1:08:22 some point have heard about transhumanism. I first heard about transhumanism reading this book by Mitchioaku. Let me pull it out here. I read this book like 10 12 years ago. The future of the mind. It's pretty good book. Pretty interesting book. And this is the first time that I had ever heard about transhumanism. And I'm not even sure he even called it that necessarily, but a lot of the book was about transhumanism. Angela on Twitch asked, "Where's Baze?" He's AI. Uh Baze is actually on my other

1:09:08 monitor here on my YouTube because I'm monitoring the YouTube chat. So, Real Bay says, "Does that mean AI my AI is a lefty because it deleted his his MC files?" I don't know. Your AI might be working for uh the Trump administration in the Department of Justice. So transhumanism is the belief that humans should use technology to transcend biological limitations, extending lifespan, enhancing cognitive abilities, and eventually merging with machines. The term was coined by Julian Huxley, which I believe was the the son of Alguous Huxley um in 1950 in his 1957

1:09:56 essay, New Bottles for New Wine. Um, modern transhumanism was formalized by Max Moore, who founded the Extropy Institute in 1988 and published principles of extropy in 1990. Moore defined transhumanism as the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desiraability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. Key transhumanist goals include life extension, cognitive enhancement,

1:10:43 cryionics. Jeffrey Epstein was friends with the owner of the largest cryionics business like cry like freezing your head and Cryionics. Yeah. Yeah, he was into that Uh genetic engineering, he was also into that. brain computer interfaces, neural link, and ultimately mind uploading, transferring human consciousness to digital substrate. Now, if you follow cognitive sciences at all, then you know that we really don't even have an understanding of what consciousness is,

1:11:30 right? It's not physical. We don't know what it is. Now, there are many theories that that's extend off of that, but we don't know what it is. So, TESCREAL is T E S C R E A L. The T is one of the important big ones, right? Transhumanist. The E, the S, and the C, those are three nodes that are within

1:12:15 transhumanism or offshoots maybe of transhumanism. But transhumanism as a concept is one of the major concepts here. And the E is extropianism. And Extropianism. And it was actually a real cult. Like a legitimate actual real cult with big names in it that you would know. It doesn't ex no longer really exists in the in the cult sort of format that it was, but it it exists still as an ideology. Extropianism is a specific branch of transhumanism founded by Max Moore, who was one of the founders of

1:13:01 the transhumanist movement or at least the uh the the uh contemporary version of transhumanism. Uh it was founded by Max Moore and Tom Marorrow uh through the Extropy Institute between 1988 and 2006. The term extropy was coined as the opposite of entropy. Entropy meaning like the natural degragation to zero. Right? Like how we get old and break down. That's until we die. That's entropy, right? So we're talking about Benjamin Button The opposite of entropy, right? The idea that the universe's tendency towards disorder can be actively

1:13:48 reversed through intelligence and technology. The Extropy Institute published the journal Extropy and hosted conferences that brought together early transhumanists, cipher punks, nanotechnology researchers, this is back in like the 80s and 90s and libertarian futurists. Its core principles included perpetual progress, self-transformation, practical optimism, intelligent technology, open society, self-direction, and rational thinking. Now, some of these things you'll find in all of these ideologies is they'll think do say things like rational thinking and then you go and be like, well, that sounds rational, right?

1:14:36 Not really. When they're talking about humanity, they have a different idea of what humanity means. We think of humanity as humans, the human spirit, humanity, right? No, no, no. For them, humanity also includes the things that humans create like robots and AI and things of that nature. So, when they're talking about protecting humanity, they're also talking about protecting the things that we create. Extropianism matters to the TESCREAL story because it was the institutional bridge between academic transhumanism and Silicon Valley culture. Many early

1:15:23 extre institute members went on to found or fund key organizations in the rationalist and effective altruist ecosystems. I don't want to get too deep into the different people and entities that are in each one of these groups. I just want us to go over like what the ideology is. But there are key figures in each one of these and some of these key figures are in multiples of these because again a lot of these are offshoots of you know like Extropianism is an offshoot of transhumanism right same thing

1:16:09 singularity bl this is a weird one singularitarianism right singularitarianism is the belief that artificial artificial intelligence will eventually surpass human intelligence, triggering a technological singularity, a moment of transformation so profound that human civilization becomes fundamentally unrecognizable. We are close. I've actually read both. So this whole thing is created by Ray Kerszswhile and he wrote in the '9s. Is it in the 90s early 2000s? He wrote uh The

1:16:54 Singularity is near and then a couple years ago he wrote a book called The Singularity is Nearer Than You Think, which is like kind of like an update. But of all the ideologies, I mean, this one is kind of like at its core, like yeah, that's going to happen, right? Like mathematically speaking, these AIs are going to advance far beyond what we will be able to to ever control. We're probably already there. So the concept was formalized by mathematician Verer Ving in his 1993 NASA paper the coming technological singularity in which he predicted within

1:17:40 30 years we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence shortly after the human era will be ended. So he said that in 1993 in 30 years it' be 2023. In 2023 I believe is when OpenAI put out the first commercial AI LLM. So he's not far off because we could be anywhere from you know as Art Chad said 1 to 5 years. Um it's it's maybe even closer to like 1 to 3 years away from this this singularity event. Um and if you listen to Mark Andre and what he said yesterday about AGI being

1:18:25 um achieved three months ago, oh we could be we could be there much sooner. Ray Kerszswhile transformed Ving's hypothesis into a comprehensive worldview. In the age of spiritual machines in 1999 and the singularity is near 2005. Kerszwhile predicted the singularity by 2045 and described it in explicitly theological terms. Again, cult, right? These are all mini cults. when you're framing them theologically, right, you are creating a cult. That's just what it is.

1:19:10 Luckily, I've read books by a lot of these different peoples and I have never felt as though I wanted to become a part of their cult, thankfully. So, when asked, "Is there a god?" Kerszswhile replied, "Not yet." But there will be once we saturate the matter and energy into the universe with intelligence, it will wake up be conscious and subliminally or sublimely intelligent. That's about as close to God as I can imagine. So he thinks that we will create an AI god. Almost everybody

1:19:55 in the TESCREAL movement believes this in some version which is crazy. It's just crazy. I mean, tell me in the chat, do you think it's crazy? I see Dr. Delta in here. What's up, brother? I love you, chemo. I mean, it's it's it's pretty insane. But unlike other religions or cults, you can't be agnostic to it like I am to like all religions, right? You can't be because

1:20:42 this is tangible and real and coming and it's happening and it's going to happen whether or not I believe in it, right? If I choose to believe in God today, then I could feel God in my soul. Right? That's what that's what people the believers of whatever religion that's essentially what they say. That's essentially what they believe. I pray to my God. My God answer my prayers. My life is better for it. Right? But there is no physical God. Not that AI is physical either. It exists within a physical structure, but it's not physical.

1:21:27 Okay? But it is very real. It's very much here. It's tangible. You can interact with it, right? And uh and that's what makes this different. And Ray Kerszswe believes there is no God yet because we haven't created it. We haven't grown him yet or it or whatever. But in a lot of ways, it isn't that crazy because you're building essentially an omnisient, everpresent time doesn't affect entity that could control the entirety of the world because we've built the

1:22:14 digital infrastructure for it to do so. In 2008, Kerszswhile co-founded Singularity University with Google CEO Larry Pageige at NASA as Research Center. Academic analysis by Egel Eagle Asperizes Kerszsw singarianism as contemporary esoterism. Esotericism. Geez, some of these words are tongue twisters. I need a little water. Drawing explicit parallels to melaninarian religious movements and

1:23:00 theosophy. Again, we're building a god. It's an AI god. That's what they believe. But of all of those beliefs that we're going to talk about, this is that is probably the most everpresent because that's essentially what we're doing. Cosmism. So this is the last of the transhumanist offshoots in this chain. Cosmism originates with Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov from the 1800s who proposed that humanity's moral duty

1:23:46 was to achieve physical resurrection of all dead humans and then colonized the cosmos to house them. Fedorov's idea influenced the Russian space program through his student Constantine Zelovski, the father of modern rocketics. Rocketics. I thought it was called rocket science, but apparently it's rocketics. Modern cosmism is championed by figures like Ben Curtz Girtzel, founder of Singularity Net. Ben Girtzel. That sounds pretty familiar. And absorbed into the broader transhumanist movement. Its core tenants include

1:24:31 humanity's destiny is to spread intelligence throughout the cosmos. Doesn't say human intelligence. Intelligence. This could be intelligence that we've created. Death is a solvable engineering problem. I don't want to live forever. Do y'all want to live forever? Even in a utopia, we just get bored of good dude. It's crazy out here. Anyway, the universe is waking up through the emergence of intelligence. Colonizing space is not optional, but a moral obligation. We're trying to colonize Mars, dog. Elon

1:25:18 Musk is trying to colonize Mars. He's working with NASA which was let's not forget NAS NASA started as an offshoot of Nazi engineers that we brought to America with Operation Paperclip and created a crazy thing called NASA. And we can go on for ages about NASA, but we're not going to today. Cosmism provides the testal bundle with its grandest ambition. The idea that what happens with AI on Earth determines the

1:26:04 fate of the entire observable universe. This is the foundation of long-termist arguments that AI alignment is the most important problem in human history because getting it right or wrong affects not just Earth but all potential future civilizations across billions of galaxies. I mean, just how full of ourselves are we to think that we could create the greatest intelligence of all time and then control it, dog. We don't even know what's in the ocean right here. Like right here. We We can We've tapped into 10% of this.

1:26:53 But we're going to create the greatest intelligence this universe has ever seen and we're going to control it. I'm sorry. Align with it. Maybe. We'll see. We will see. I see some of you watching on on Twitch and on YouTube. You guys are legends. Thank you. Thank you for getting my numbers up. I mean, I don't have big numbers. I don't have big numbers, but I have similar numbers every time with some of the most awesome people. You guys are here. You guys are

1:27:38 like my new like little family. I can't wait to like hang out with you guys every week. I really am trying to do like a couple of times a week, but I've also been getting um you know, opportunities to come in with other creators on their stuff. So maybe I'm not doing my own live stream like I did the co-stream with American Discourse News earlier in the week. It wasn't like a Kevin, you know, sitting here stream, but it was an awesome stream. I had a great time on that one. I hope and I know some of you guys were there. So I hope you guys enjoyed yourself. So let's get back to it. Rationalism again. H. That sounds fair. That sounds rational. It's rationalism, right? Oh, KJ asked Kevin, you're agnostic, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Atheist, agnostic. I

1:28:25 kind of float between the two for sure. Um, I don't need to find morality elsewhere, but I I I truly do not care to uh to put anybody down if they seek if they seek anything that makes them a better person. How could I ever say anything wrong about that? I will however criticize your churches just like I don't criticize Americans but I criticize the American government. Same same thing right? So anyway rationalism rationalism is the is in the testal context refers specifically to

1:29:11 the community that emerged from Elizer Udekowsk's writing on overcoming bias and less wrong. Ykowski published a millionword series. It's a millionword. That's a biggie. A millionword series. It's actually when I saw it, I think it was like 1.6 million words. It's massive. uh of a uh so Yukowski published a millionword series of blog posts called the sequence that outlined a worldview centered on basian shout out baze basian reasoning overcoming cognitive biases and treating AI alignment as an existential priority. This is a guy that wrote if anyone builds it everybody dies. Um,

1:29:58 the rationalist community is not merely an intellectual movement. It is a social infrastructure. It includes group houses in the San Francisco Bay area, its own vocabulary and social norms, dating culture, and a pipeline into AI labs. Many current and former employees of Open AI, anthropic, and deep mind come through the less wrong rationalist pipeline. Okay. key rationalist concepts that feed into TESCREAL. AI alignment, the problem of ensuring super intelligent AI does what humans want. Now, there are a lot of people in TESCREAL that are against alignment. So, this isn't like a big like perfectly

1:30:45 fit together concept, but understanding all of these ideologies and how they're getting to a point where we're all going to die. Well, still worth looking at. Rockco's Basilisk, a thought experiment suggesting a future AI might punish anyone who failed to help create it. described as technological Pascal's wager sequence thinking a comprehensive e epismological epistemological yeah a comprehensive epistemological framework that functions as the movement's intellectual catechism x risk the idea that exist at the idea

1:31:31 that existential risk especially from AI should dominate all other moral priorities ities. Now, the man who created this is also a super transhumanist, but this actually lives outside of transhumanism or separate from transhumanism. Effective altruism. This one's crazy. I can read this here for you, but I'm going to tell you this. Essentially, effective altruism believes that all morality and everything that we should do as a race should be done through mathematical

1:32:16 probabilities, right? And so it's not about ethics or morals. It's all math, right? So like for example, if the math plays out that we lose 50% of of humans living today, but by that happening, there are future generations of posthuman transhumanists that are merged with AI or, you know, other sorts of like hardware, software, things of that nature, then the math checks out and it's worth

1:33:02 losing half of humanity today to have a bigger, more advanced humanity later, right? That's like a big a big way of looking at it. Um, and it's I mean, effective altruism, like I said, Art Chad did a video about a month or two ago called uh, Silicon Valley is run by a death cult. And that is a whole video that he did just about effective altruism and this movement. Highly, highly, highly suggest. But let's read this. Effective altruism or EA is a philosophical and social movement that uses evidence and reason to determine the most effective way to

1:33:47 do good. It was formalized by philosophers Millian McCascal and Toby Ord at Oxford University with major funding from Facebook co-founder Dusk Dustin Moscowitz through open philanthropy which is part of Open AI. EA began with relatively uncontroversial premises, comparing charities by cost-effectiveness, donating to fight malaria, but underwent what critics call a long-termist capture in the late 2010s, meaning it was basically co- co-opted and taken over by another ideology called long-termism, which is the L in um in TESCREAL, which

1:34:32 we'll come to in a second. Um, sorry, let me get back to where I was. Uh, by 2022, AI existential risk had become EA's dominant cause area, consuming the majority of open philanthropy's grant-making and reshaping the movement's identity. The institutional infrastructure of EA is vast. Open philanthropy over 1 billion in AI safety grants. Center for Effective Al Altruism, the movement's coordinating body. 80,000 hours. Career advice platform steering talent towards AI safety. Giving what we can, a pledge to donate 10% of income functioning as a secular tithe. EA Global, an annual

1:35:17 conference that functions as the movement's liturggical liturgical. These are these are weird ass words, guys. And I'm probably butchering them and I'm usually pretty good at this stuff. Uh, lit lurggical. So, annual conference that functions as the movement's lurggical calendar. The collapse of FTX, that's Sam Bankman Freed, who's in jail with Diddy right now. In no in November of 2022, Sam Bankman Freed's cryptocurrency exchange, which was deeply intertwined with EA funding, exposed the movement to mainstream scrutiny. Bankman Freed had

1:36:02 described his entire business as an earning to give project for EA causes. Another thing that they don't talk about in this report but is very well known is that like if you've ever heard of the term like polycule or even like polyamory uh then these guys are like the biggest proponents of like polycules which is like very like almost like incestuous like so if you remember like Sam Bank McFreed had like a polycule with all these like other weirdos from his company and they all like lived in these places together and ran like

1:36:50 essentially one of the biggest Ponzi schemes like ever. Uh Apple Juice asked, "Is that a Lego gun or that is a Lego gun? It is not real. Those are fake bullets, but it's actually mechanically just like a gun. It like spits out a shell and shoots a bullet. It's pretty awesome. I love this thing. It's like my fidget toy. So, anyway, one last piece and that is long-termism. Long-termism is the philosophical position that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority

1:37:37 of our time. It was formalized by William McCascal who's also the leader of effective altruism in his two in his 2022 book what we owe the future and by Toby or in the precipice the core long-termist argument is the number of potential future people is astronomically large trillions upon trillions across millions of years. Future people's interests matter morally just as much as present people's. Remember like I said the effective altruist would be fine with losing 50% of people now if it meant having trillions or millions of people or sorry

1:38:22 trillions of people in the future. Right? Therefore, actions that affect the long-term trajectory of civilization, especially those involving existential risk, are overwhelmingly more important than anything else. AI is the biggest existential risk. So, AI alignment is the most important cause in human history. It is, but not because we need to go sail the cosmos as cyborgs, but because humanity is pretty perfect as it is in its natural state and we don't really need to change too much,

1:39:08 right? Like, if anything, we should be reverting. We should be reverting. That's just my take. We should be reverting. We shouldn't be looking to being in spaceships as immortal cyborgs. That's insanity. I don't know. You tell me. Actually, you think you think it's not insanity? You think this is completely rational? Is this what you want? Do you want to be a cyborg living forever in space spreading AI?

1:39:55 I don't I don't I want to live like 80 years in like good health and then check out, dog. I certainly don't want I don't ever want to be the first to do anything. So like I certainly don't want to be in the first generation of people that's going to go be a cyborg in space. That'd probably suck. And I'm not going to be alive enough to enter three, four versions in. So I'm cool with dying at like 80. That'd be lit, dude. I'm halfway there. I'm like stoked being halfway

1:40:41 there. If the alternative is being a cyborg in space, that looks abysmal. Anyway, I hope that we opened up some new concepts in your brain and that you at least have an understanding of what this is. It's not a singular cult. It's more like seven of them. But it's not even about the cult of it, right? It's about the result of what the richest, most powerful

1:41:29 people on this planet and what they actually believe, what they say. That's why my video is so important because they're saying this in public, bits of it, pieces of it here and there. They're not explaining the whole thing at once because if they did it sound crazy, but they get you on board for bits of it, right? That's that's what I want you to start looking at, right? My hope is that you watch this, you're in this live stream or you watch clips of this or whatever or any of the videos that I'm going to do about this cuz clearly I've barely

1:42:14 even scratched the surface. That's the reality is I've barely scratched the surface of this. My hope is that you start to look at the world around you, right? Start looking at what's happening. Start looking about what these people are doing, what they're saying, and and and ask yourself, does this sound like a tech death cult that is totally okay with creating the thing that's going to probably kill me and the people I love? Just let's just start there. Let's just start there and then let's dig a little deeper piece

1:43:00 by piece because again like this isn't I'm g pull this up again. I'm going pull this up again because this is what we're against, dog. You see that? You see that? You see this? This is what we're up against, my friends. And it is nut e. I mean, these are the things that sway our society. This is the technology

1:43:48 of our society, not American society, global society with very real goals of like owning the universe. These are not normal people. This is not us. Let me take these off. This is not us. These are not normal humans. These are people that literally believe. These people literally believe that most of us are going to die at the hands of technology that they're

1:44:34 creating, that they don't understand, and that they're not in alignment with. It's going to result in the death of most of us and for everybody else. They are going to live forever in a cyborg hurling itself through space to spread AI out into the cosmos. And this is like these are the most important important importance. This is these are the most powerful people. These are the true lever pullers of our

1:45:22 society is what they want. I'm not trying to be doomer. I actually think that we have a chance. We still have a window of opportunity to halt this thing. And that's what all the people who are inside who are the ones talking about pausing halting all of it for whatever reason, whether they want to protect enough humans so that we can become transhumanist or if they're just like us, you and I, who just like we just like being human and you know, we want humans to survive. because that's what we've always done.

1:46:10 But this is we have a window of opportunity. And so with that, I hope I've helped open your eyes a little bit to what's going on here. And I hope you keep those eyes open as you look and interact with the world around you and start really thinking about is Kevin crazy or is there something here? And with that, I would love to answer more questions and things of that nature, but

1:46:57 I'm at the end of my time today and I'm looking forward to our next conversation because boy, there are some topics we can talk about. Epstein's transhumanist agenda, insane. Israel connections to all of these people and entities or a lot of them. Insane. And so yeah, just know that you are digital goyam in the eyes of our tech overlords.

1:47:43 And we might have a little fight. We might have a little fight ahead of us. And I, for one, am down to fight because I like to fight. I like to argue. I dig it. I'm from Boston, dog. Let's go. Let's go. You know whose legs we breaking? Let's go. Like, that's just my mentality. I hope you guys are down to break some legs. Not physically, not literally, but metaphorically. Let's go break some legs. Anyway, have a great weekend. Sorry if I put fear into you, but fear not. If we all together can come together and say this is what we definitely want or don't want in our world, this actually could be a turning

1:48:30 point for humanity where we finally stopped fighting with each other and we finally got on the same page. That's my hope. Anyway, I love you all. Thank you for coming in. Everybody on Twitch, Kick or YouTube, like it, share it, subscribe, you know, whatever. Thank you. Have a great weekend.