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Accelerationism is the best way to go at it since it ensures either a quick death or a fix and not the ugly in-between we're all starting to slowly catch a glimpse of



So in that view, accelerationism is about placing a high-stakes, binary bet that such actions will result in a utopia rather than utter destruction.

But what gives those people the right to gamble with the lives of the rest of us in that way? The entire line of thinking is, in my view, not only horribly egotistic and authoritarian, but antagonistically so.


Oh yes it is, but apparently that's what we, as a specie, want for now


Have you looked at recent opinion polls? e/acc is polling at -51 and various "AI doom" positions are polling strong into the positive percentages.


I don't think that we, as a specie, want this at all. I think a subset of powerful people want it.




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