Accelerationists
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
American Optimist 
Big Technology
3 statements about Accelerationists, every show
Levie: Accelerationists and Doomers Wrongly Assume Raw Intelligence Is All That Matters
“What's funny is actually the accelerationists and the doomers sort of share roughly the same timeline, because they both think that AI is the, like, intelligence is the only thing that matters.”
Amodei: Anthropic articulates AI benefits better than accelerationists
“I feel in fact that I and Anthropic have often been able to do a better job of articulating the benefits of AI than some of the people who call themselves optimists or accelerationists.”
McCord: Treating AI progress as ultimate end risks abandoning human defense
“To say that that is the ultimate end of human life, that that's what we move towards, gives you these kind of sinister conclusions, which is like, we should pass the baton to this higher, better intelligence if we can. You know, in other words, like. There's n…”