Broderick: The OpenAI drama will galvanize accelerationists into a serious movement
Ryan Broderick · Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War · Dec 4, 2023 · at 39:04
Journalist Ryan Broderick discusses how the November 2023 OpenAI board crisis catalyzed the effective accelerationism (e/acc) subculture into an organized ideology.
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“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 serious and becoming like, you know, possibly a real counterpoint as opposed to a bunch of different factions wanting different things.”
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