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If this is your take of e/acc, you're wildly misunderstanding it.

e/acc is about building fast and making changes that benefit humanity, while pushing useless bureaucracy away. Elon Musk himself is a proponent of e/acc. It has nothing to do with AI specifically, and especially nothing to do with destruction.

The core belief of e/acc is that we can solve our problems not by austerity, but by growth. Instead of limiting births and limiting technological progress, we can instead find solutions to support more people and push humanity beyond its boundaries.




You're just describing normal techno-optimism. E/acc, as in the Beff Jezos shitposting, is openly and intensely anti-human. From the man himself:

> Effective accelerationism (e/acc) in a nutshell:

> Stop fighting the thermodynamic will of the universe

> You cannot stop the acceleration

> You might as well embrace it

> A C C E L E R A T E

https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-ten...

where "the thermodynamic will of the universe" means endless darwinian struggle.


I don't see what is anti-human in these citations. Your interpretation of it doesn't make it fact.


You think a human is the thermodynamic optimum? Everything not optimized for gets optimized out.

"This is just cope. What you’re describing is, is that reality is hard. Yes. If the thing we want is complicated and hard to get, the answer is not to pick something simple and easy and give ourselves a participation award. The answer is, well, we have to get stronger. We have to get better." -- Connor Leahy


It's a joke that you aren't in on.




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