Danyl McLauchlan: Silicon Valley's cult of tech utopianism
Writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Susie to tackle life's big questions, ideas, and thinkers. This week he tackles TESCREAL, the acronym you may have seen pop up online over the past few months. Coined by the computer scientist Timnit Gebru and the philosopher Emil Torres, TESCREAL stands for transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism and long-termism. The pair propose this acronym describes a suite of right-wing ideologies that are coming to dominate Silicon Valley.