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WTF is e/acc for people that don't live on Twitter?

by sph 3y ago

hemloc_io 3y ago
It'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 ago
It stands for Effective Acceleration, I think
serverholic 3y ago
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bleachedsleet 3y ago
Original 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 ago
Effective 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 ago
  Utilitarianism has very real utility monsters, and some people seem like they want to make AI into another one...
- tern 3y ago
  The 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 ago
First 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...

WTF is e/acc for people that don't live on Twitter?

by sph 3y ago

WTF is e/acc for people that don't live on Twitter?

It'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 ago

It stands for Effective Acceleration, I think

serverholic 3y ago

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bleachedsleet 3y ago

Original 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 ago

Effective 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 ago
Utilitarianism has very real utility monsters, and some people seem like they want to make AI into another one...
tern 3y ago
The 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 ago

First 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...