Bungacast /488/ Homo-Techno, Homo-Solo ...Post-Homo? ft. Alex Gendler
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May 27, 2025 Join writer Alex Gendler, known for his insights into the online rationalist subculture and author of 'Homo Algorithmicus', as he explores the cultural impact of incel communities over the past five years. He delves into the definition of 'TESCREAL' and its anti-human rationalism. Gendler also discusses the divide in Silicon Valley between altruistic and libertarian ideologies, the controversial debates surrounding birth rates, and the intersection of technology with modern masculinity, questioning the future of human values in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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Manosphere as a Self-Help Grift
- The manosphere operates as a massive self-help grift targeting lonely, alienated men.
- Rationalists are the salesmen of this grift, while incels are its customers.
Luigi Mangioni & Rationalist Worldview
- Luigi Mangioni exemplifies the online rationalist subculture underlying tech.
- This worldview values strict deductive reasoning and solution-oriented approaches, rejecting humanities discourse.
TESCREAL and Anti-human Rationalism
- TESCREAL fuses transhumanism, rationalism, and effective altruism into an anti-humanist ideology.
- Rationalists push ideas like effective altruism to extreme, often logic-driven, conclusions.