Émile P. Torres
Author of Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation Émile P. Torres talks about TESCREAL- Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.
🎙️ In his monologue, Rushkoff wonders if magic is our probable path to a sustainable future.
📰 You can read Rushkoff's monologue, Embracing the Impossible, on Medium.
About Émile P. Torres
Émile P. Torres’ work over the past decade has centered around a single theme: eschatology, whether religious, secular, or scientific. Recently, Torres has focused on the nature and causes of human extinction, its ethical implications, and the history of the idea.
Torres used to write for the Future of Life Institute and was a research assistant to Ray Kurzweil and an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Torres spent some time at Harvard University and earned a masters degree in Neuroscience from Brandeis University, although their background is the philosophy of mind and philosophy of science/biology. Torres is currently a PhD candidate at Leibniz Universität Hannover, in Germany. Their forthcoming book Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation (Routledge) is a sprawling work of intellectual history, ethics, and population axiology.
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