Effective Accelerationism
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Bostrom: Effective accelerationism is driven by frustration with tech over-regulation
“I think some of the, Impetus for effective accelerationism comes from that kind of cumulative frustration. And then it's applied to AI in particular.”
Verdon: Started e/acc via anonymous Twitter alt at Google X
“I think I think I started it roughly when I was towards the tail end of my stint at Google X there, obviously the baseline is secrecy. I couldn't talk much and you know, about what I do and can't, couldn't say anything too controversial. And so, you know, I st…”
Broderick: EA and e/acc differ primarily on timeframe, not ultimate goals
“I have not found much difference in what these two groups want, only the timeframe in which they want them to happen. It is, it, in my opinion, I have not seen enough difference between the two.”
Broderick: Effective Accelerationism was basically a meme until late 2023
“Effective accelerationism was more or less a meme until last week. Like it wasn't really even like a thing. It was sort of just like a way to make older Silicon Valley guys look cringe or more cringe.”
White: EA and e/acc rebrand Silicon Valley wealth accumulation as heroic
“Effective accelerationism and to an extent effective altruism are really just sort of a rebranding of a lot of the same philosophies that have existed in Silicon Valley for a long time where people really want to feel good about themselves. Like they're, you k…”
Broderick: EA and e/acc share goals of wealth and anti-democratic thought
“They're not opposites in the sense that, like, EA are communists. Like, they're both pretty aligned on the idea of making as much money as humanly possible. They're both supported by a lot of anti-democratic thinkers. They're both sort of center to not maybe j…”
White: Giving e/acc outsized media attention risks a self-fulfilling prophecy
“The idea that effective acceleration is now will be dictating the future of this entire field, I think is is it's something that risks becoming sort of a self fulfilling prophecy where we now give these people far more attention and sort of you know, weight to…”
White: Both EA and e/acc share a mythology about imminent godlike AI
“They both have this sort of mythology in their heads about this, you know, godlike AI being that is just around the corner.”
Broderick: The OpenAI drama will galvanize accelerationists into a serious movement
“I think that if there's really any legacy from the last week of drama instead of opening AI, it's that the acceleration is all found each other. And like, now know how to talk about each other. And now we'll start to see sort of like those memes becoming more …”
White: Effective Accelerationism just rebrands 'move fast and break things'
“I think it is mostly a rebrand of, you know, move fast, break things, which has been Silicon Valley's, you know, mantra since early Facebook. But with the added sort of religious, almost philosophy behind it, and the very effective altruist style of speaking a…”