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Effective Altruism is a charity / social club / networking opportunity for young STEM types based on pretty extreme beliefs about Utilitarianism and recently AI
by 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 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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