Ottokar Hochman

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Exploring the "Anti-TESCREAL" Ideology and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress

Aug 14, 2025•24

Ottokar Hochman

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6mo

Exploring the "Anti-TESCREAL" Ideology and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress

Aug 14, 2025•24

Ottokar Hochman

6mo

Exploring the "Anti-TESCREAL" Ideology and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress

Ottokar Hochman

6mo

By this point, I imagine that most people here have already encountered Torres and Gebru's infamous "TESCREAL bundle". However, the discourse about this accusation so far has mostly revolved whether it is fair to connect the different elements of the bundle, including EA, together, or to attribute the sort of techno-millenarian eschatological aspirations that they speak of to everyone involved in these movements. What has gone mostly unnoticed is that their rhetoric about millenarianism is actually itself rooted in a specific religious and philosophical perspective which is much narrower than most labels that the pair attach to themselves; almost everything that they say about "TESCREAL" is actually an echo of early-to-mid-20th-century theological... (read 496 more words →)

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Ottokar Hochman

Ottokar Hochman

Exploring the "Anti-TESCREAL" Ideology and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress

Ottokar Hochman

Ottokar Hochman

Exploring the "Anti-TESCREAL" Ideology and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress