@lucy_isd chrome is so annoying i dont even use it by choice i use it because once safari mysteriously disappeared from my phone and i downloaded chrome and now it won't let me remove it because then i'd have no browser
a problem with the TESCREAL label is it's a lot of different groups which are related (and its members would overlap/interact) but also are separate and often have contradictory interests. so considering it a unified ideological group is pretty meaningless
cosmism is a 20th century philosophy that no one subscribes to in 2026? just thrown in there for kicks
and more seriously re: some individual things
- the rationalism one is funnily kind of true but worded in a snarky way and refusing to engage with why they actually think AI alignment is important. kind of true across the board here
- effective altruism is a separate thing from longtermism. longtermism is closely related to EAs and a lot of EAs think it is one of the most effective things to care about. but also a lot of EAs aren't into it! generally EA is about "how can i most effectively do good (e.g. lives saved per dollar)" but there is tons of debate about what's the best way to quantify/measure this! but generally "i should care about people not just in my immediate network, and donating to effective causes is a good way to do that (however effective is defined)." they don't come after EAs for donating 10% of their income to malaria nets/ending factory farming (which is way more common of an EA thing to do than longtermist causes)
this was before tescreal was a term but i explained what tpot was to my dad to gesture at the same vague unease i felt about ea/rationalism/ai/etc, like "theyre sort of a cluster and some of them like eugenics so maybe thats why it's bad? but i guess (from its wikipedia article) i can't point out anything wrong with ea but i'm sure there's a reason it's bad"
@andiwithnori ngl could've been me at ~17ish when my dad was getting into ea and i was talking to him like "idk what it is but i think it's bad ?" and i'd argue with him about ai being bad because of copyright after auditing stanford nlp lectures with him