Sam Altman gets job at Microsoft after weekend of "news" about him returning to CEO post at OpenAI

The “T” stands for transhumanism . This is the backbone of the TESCREAL bundle. Indeed, the next three letters of the acronym — Extropianism, singularitarianism, and cosmism — are just variations of transhumanism. But we’ll get to them in a moment. The core vision of transhumanism is to technologically reengineer the human species to create a superior new race of “posthumans.” These posthumans would be “superior” by virtue of possessing one or more super-human abilities: immortality, extremely high “IQs,” total control over their emotions, exceptional “rationality” and perhaps new sensory modalities like echolocation, used by bats to navigate the world

So…this is eugenics is shiny sci-fi jacket. Wonderful. I really hate this timeline.

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