Effective Accelerationism

“I think that the philosophies that we've seen sort of emerge and the rebranding of these philosophies that we've seen happen over the last month or so have a good chance of outliving the generative AI fad.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“They both have this sort of mythology in their heads about this, you know, godlike AI being that is just around the corner.”

“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…”

“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 …”

“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.”