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In these dark and turbulent times, behind the news remains rock-like in its solidity. Two guests, two segments. We'll hear from Emil Torres on the philosophy of the tech moguls and from Daniel Wartell London on the fiscal history of New York City. You may have watched some of the tech moguls, who it should be emphasized have a major beachhead in the Trump administration,

and wondered if they really care about human lives. In a sense, they don't. As my next guest,

Emil Torres argues, many of them look to a transhumanist future, where we pathetic sacks of flesh will be replaced by digital beings, endowed with superintelligence far greater than our wetware can support.

This helps explain their obsession with AI. It's at the core of their human extinctionist preferences.

Or more precisely, AGI, artificial general intelligence, one that can do far more than chat GPT's

regurgitation of plagiarized material. My first guest, Emil Taurus, is coined an acronym to

describe their philosophy, Tuscriol, which stands for transhumanism, extropianism,

singularism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and long-termism. That's a mouthful,

I admit. We'll talk about transhumanism in detail. The second two are basically

variations on it. So is cosmism, though with a colonizing space angle. We also talk about

rationalism in detail. Effective altruism, which crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried

made famous, holds that doing good has to be practical and efficient and not always self-sacrificing.

It makes sense under this doctrine to spend your life on Wall Street making lots of money

if you use it later in life to do good, though how that good is defined can be mysterious.

And long-termism, a topic that comes up but we don't get into detail about, is the doctrine

that what really matters is the perspective of millions of years,

so any suffering and death now is of no significance if it advances the transhumanist agenda.

Emil Torres, quoting their own bio, is a moral philosopher, intellectual historian and journalist

whose work focuses on the ethics of emerging technologies, especially AI and human extinction.

In 2023, with Dr. Timnit Gibru, they coined the acronym Tescriol to denote a constellation

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