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Really more of an e/acc manifesto. Interesting to see a twitter thing slowly leak into the mainstream one step at a time.
by hemloc_io 3y ago
Really more of an e/acc manifesto.
Interesting to see a twitter thing slowly leak into the mainstream one step at a time.
- sph 3y agoWTF is e/acc for people that don't live on Twitter?
- hemloc_io 3y agoIt's a twitter thing, that was picked up by the more twitter brained VCs. Mostly an AI thing originally I think? (I'm addicted to the site, but don't follow the d list celeb drama lol.) Stands for effective accelerationism, more or less what you read in this Manifesto (Marc Andresson said he identified it a while ago too so makes sense.)
- batty_alex 3y agoIt stands for Effective Acceleration, I think
- serverholic 3y ago[dead]
- bleachedsleet 3y agoOriginal e/acc manifesto [0] [0] https://www.effectiveacceleration.org/posts/4LtypqdAmQ3AgKtJD/what-the-f-is-e-acc https://www.effectiveacceleration.org/posts/4LtypqdAmQ3AgKtJ...
- lambda_garden 3y agoEffective Altruism is a charity / social club / networking opportunity for young STEM types based on pretty extreme beliefs about Utilitarianism and recently AI. The most famous EA right now is probably SBF. Accelerationism is the belief that we should race towards catastrophe so that we can rebuild society in a better way. E / Acc is a (sometimes ironic) amalgam of the two. You won't be surprised to learn that not many in these groups have studied history.
- eternityforest 3y agoUtilitarianism has very real utility monsters, and some people seem like they want to make AI into another one...
- tern 3y agoThe original accelerationist manifesto was written by people who did study history. You can find it here: https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-mani... #accelerate was a meme (which, mainly referred to a set of aesthetics) on Google circles around 2011 Since then, the meme evolved into a bit of a war between l/acc (the original sense of the term) and r/acc (Nick Land flavored). e/acc is a play on this—but a decade removed, the original context has been mostly forgotten To understand the original historical context, you can read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Accelerationist-Reader-Urbanomic/dp/0957529554/ https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Accelerationist-Reader-Urb..., which traces it back to, among other things, an essay by Marx
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- numpad0 3y agoFirst Google result was a small air conditioning reseller, the second was []1. I'm going with the former. 1: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/eacc-effective-accelerationism https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/eacc-effective-accel...
- greenie_beans 3y agoit's ironic, because wouldn't marx be considered the OG accelerationist?
- hotnfresh 3y agoLenin, more like. Marx reckoned it’d all happen more-or-less naturally, others decided it needed a push. [edit] ok, nuance, yes he advocated movements to replace capitalism with communism, but he’s not the one mainly associated with attempts to bring communism “too early” (too early by Marx’s reckoning of the timeline of capitalism, that is)
- marcosdumay 3y agoOne of the OG ones, maybe. It was a quite widespread idea.
- rileyphone 3y agoThe philosophy goes back to him by Deleuze and Guattari via Nick Land, though most lump Marx's thought with the sins of the 20th century.