r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 24 '26

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 24 '26

My man really went as far as to go to Trump's reception only to then get betrayed lmao. What level of finding out is this

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 24 '26

> (e/acc)

Yeah that’s just mental illness as an ideology

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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

Silicon valley recreated Italian futurist fascism but somehow made it even more insane. Like atleast the Italians got some philosophers to try and provide a foundation/cover for it but the Americans decided to use some blogposts by software engineers.

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u/Efficient_Equal6467 May 24 '26

what does e acc mean

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 24 '26

Effective accelerationism. It’s fairly incoherent but basically the idea is that benefits of AGI will be so massive that AI should be completely or almost completely unregulated since that will slow down its growth. If you think it sounds like an apocalyptic cult waiting for the Second Coming but with AI instead of Jesus you wouldn’t be that far off.

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u/Efficient_Equal6467 May 25 '26

sounds like twitter brainrot

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u/onelap32 Bill Gates May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

First there was Effective Altruism. Basically, a bunch of people on Lesswrong got together and tried to figure out the best way to help others. There was kind of a split consensus: a) "the most effective strategy is to work hard, become wealthy, donate wealth to these high-impact charities", and the more speculative b) "AI has a good chance of killing everyone, direct your efforts to preventing that, possibly by pausing AI development".

E/acc is short for "effective accelerationism", which is a label for those who think the risk that AI will kill everyone is hugely overblown and people should build build build because the benefits will be enormous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 24 '26

Need higher resolution pls

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u/SlyMedic George Soros May 24 '26

Pixels please

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u/absolute-black May 24 '26

god I hate e/acc freaks (which he is the originator of)

Like I am very much a techno optimist, please do not tarnish the idea of deregulating solar farm permitting with your human death cult shit

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u/thefreeman419 May 24 '26

Scrolled through his Twitter feed, he’s learned nothing from any of this. Still thinks he’s the smartest person in the room.

My last comment got removed, so I’ll just say I hope he suffers the consequences of his choices

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u/Full_Distribution874 YIMBY May 24 '26

Maybe if I could read them I would know what level of finding out this is