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e/acc is short for effective accelerationism and not effective altruism. Those groups are interested in very different things.

• raverbashing 3y ago
  True, fixed. But the groups have some overlap
  • rolisz 3y ago
    Do they? Aren't EAs mostly doomers? I haven't followed the debate closely.
    • reducesuffering 3y ago
      EA and e/acc have a lot of overlap in being free market, pro technology, urban, fairly online groups. The "doomer" and charity parts are the difference. EA's mostly believe that current trajectory of AGI will "paperclip maximize" humans, regardless of our suffering. While e/acc believe that heralding in AGI is the next frontier of tech, and that more tech is always good, that tech = positive progress. EA like to donate towards helping humanity. E/acc believe in getting really rich through tech and by markets, this helps other people too, via Randian market prosperity.
    • nyssos 3y ago
      > Do they? Not really, but they're both descended (in part) from the same early 2000s Bay Area counterculture-technoutopian-libertarian milieu.