If this current becomes normalised (and it has, frankly, always been present in the rationalist sphere), it makes TESCREAL-style categorisations of the rationalist/EA/AI safety intellectual sphere bascially correct.
What? It seems like TESCREAL is clearly a natural cluster (modulo I don’t know any examples of the “C”), and whether takes like this are pervasive amongst rationalists doesn’t bare on whether it’s a good categorization?
What? It seems like TESCREAL is clearly a natural cluster (modulo I don’t know any examples of the “C”), and whether takes like this are pervasive amongst rationalists doesn’t bare on whether it’s a good categorization?
A bit late, but the “C” stands for Cosmism. Effectively Communist/Russian proto-transhumanists. If you’ve read it, think Tera Ignota’s Utopians.