TESCREAL Consensus
conceptBiotech & Transhumanism
A bundle of Silicon Valley belief systems acts like a secular religion pushing to merge humans with machines no matter the social cost.
Who they are
TESCREAL, a nickname for a cluster of linked ideologies: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.
What they do
Researchers Timnit Gebru and Émile Torres coined the term for this web of beliefs, which they trace back to an Anglo-American eugenics tradition.
How it works
In practice it uses 'safety' and 'benefiting humanity' language while concentrating power among an insulated tech elite and driving relentless funding into merging biology with digital technology, regardless of the harm.
Why it matters
The engine reads it as the driving force — almost a faith — behind the push to fuse humans and machines, which is why understanding it matters.
The engine's record — word for word
Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism. Interconnected ideological matrix identified by Gebru and Torres as rooted in Anglo-American eugenics tradition. Functions to centralize power among insulated tech elite while deploying safety and benefiting humanity rhetoric. The secular religion of Silicon Valley enclaves driving relentless bio-digital interface funding regardless of social costs. The ideological forcing function behind the bio-digital convergence.
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