Tech billionaires are planning for a future where humans don’t exist, and they’re already building it.
For decades, tech elites have sold us a shiny future powered by artificial intelligence. But what if the future they’re building doesn’t include us?
I investigated the dangerous worldview known as TESCREALism that has taken hold across the world’s most powerful tech companies, from OpenAI to Tesla. It’s the belief that biological humans are flawed and temporary, and that a post-human future dominated by AGI (artificial general intelligence) is both inevitable and desirable.
Under this ideology, human obsolescence is framed as progress, while billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg prepare to outlive the collapse they are helping to create.
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This video explores AI ideology, tech billionaires, the post-human future, and the real human cost of the AI arms race.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro: The Silicon Valley Death Cult
02:36 Silicon Valley's origins
04:19 Hacker utopia: Jobs, Wozniak & The 70s
05:50 The personal computer revolution
07:13 The "Mind Children" prophecy
09:06 The Singularity Explained
10:50 Larry Page vs. Elon Musk
11:17 Humans are obsolete narratives (2010s)
14:44 Viral "Humans Need Not Apply" video
15:10 The era of sterile minimalism
15:47 How apps dehumanized labor
16:35 Kim & Kanye's post-human home, tech campuses, Airbnb
18:56 Why design became boring (Jony Ive)
20:44 A fatal brain upload startup
21:54 The billionaire ideology destroying the world (TESCREAL)
26:18 A "worthy successor" to humans
28:26 Marc Andreessen's most unhinged blog post
30:34 "Beff Jezos" and the e/acc cult
34:21 Inside Grimes' pro-AI event
36:20 They redefined the word "humanity"
40:47 The bio-baby mind virus
41:43 AI arms race
47:05 Data centers
48:36 Billionaire bunkers and escape plans
51:32 Sea steading and Próspera
52:09 Bryan Johnson's quest for immortality
53:58 "The event": preparing for collapse
55:00 We are not powerless
56:32 The truth about online safety laws (KOSA)
57:42 Why we must tax the rich
59:31 Building a human-centric future
KEY CONCEPTS: From the Singularity to billionaire bunkers, TESCREAL ideology is the invisible force driving the AI arms race.
TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Accelerationism, Longtermism.
Special thanks to Dr. Émile P. Torres for his extensive research on this topic. Follow Dr. Torres: https://x.com/xriskology, or subscribe to his Substack: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/
Also follow Timnit Gebru, the brilliant computer scientist and AI researcher who has documented the TESCREAL movement since the beginning, and has played a pivotal role on calling it out:
https://bsky.app/profile/timnitgebru....
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For decades, tech elites have sold us a shiny future powered by artificial intelligence. But what if the future they’re building doesn’t include us?
I investigated the dangerous worldview known as TESCREALism that has taken hold across the world’s most powerful tech companies, from OpenAI to Tesla. It’s the belief that biological humans are flawed and temporary, and that a post-human future dominated by AGI (artificial general intelligence) is both inevitable and desirable.
Under this ideology, human obsolescence is framed as progress, while billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg prepare to outlive the collapse they are helping to create.
Support my independent journalism:
🙏 Patreon:
/ taylorlorenz 🗞️ Substack: https://www.usermag.co
This video explores AI ideology, tech billionaires, the post-human future, and the real human cost of the AI arms race.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro: The Silicon Valley Death Cult
02:36 Silicon Valley's origins
04:19 Hacker utopia: Jobs, Wozniak & The 70s
05:50 The personal computer revolution
07:13 The "Mind Children" prophecy
09:06 The Singularity Explained
10:50 Larry Page vs. Elon Musk
11:17 Humans are obsolete narratives (2010s)
14:44 Viral "Humans Need Not Apply" video
15:10 The era of sterile minimalism
15:47 How apps dehumanized labor
16:35 Kim & Kanye's post-human home, tech campuses, Airbnb
18:56 Why design became boring (Jony Ive)
20:44 A fatal brain upload startup
21:54 The billionaire ideology destroying the world (TESCREAL)
26:18 A "worthy successor" to humans
28:26 Marc Andreessen's most unhinged blog post
30:34 "Beff Jezos" and the e/acc cult
34:21 Inside Grimes' pro-AI event
36:20 They redefined the word "humanity"
40:47 The bio-baby mind virus
41:43 AI arms race
47:05 Data centers
48:36 Billionaire bunkers and escape plans
51:32 Sea steading and Próspera
52:09 Bryan Johnson's quest for immortality
53:58 "The event": preparing for collapse
55:00 We are not powerless
56:32 The truth about online safety laws (KOSA)
57:42 Why we must tax the rich
59:31 Building a human-centric future
KEY CONCEPTS: From the Singularity to billionaire bunkers, TESCREAL ideology is the invisible force driving the AI arms race.
TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Accelerationism, Longtermism.
Special thanks to Dr. Émile P. Torres for his extensive research on this topic. Follow Dr. Torres: https://x.com/xriskology, or subscribe to his Substack: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/
Also follow Timnit Gebru, the brilliant computer scientist and AI researcher who has documented the TESCREAL movement since the beginning, and has played a pivotal role on calling it out:
https://bsky.app/profile/timnitgebru....
Follow me:
/ taylorlorenz
/ taylorlorenz3.0
/ taylorlorenz
https://x.com/taylorlorenz
https://bsky.app/profile/taylorlorenz...
#ai #siliconvalley #tech #technology #artificialintelligence #elonmusk #jeffbezos #markzuckerberg #technews #samaltman #deepdive #videoessay