Meaning of effective accelerationist | Babel Free

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A proponent of effective accelerationism.

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“Effective accelerationists essentially believe that tech is universally good, that our planet is doomed, and that the only way to save the human species is by letting capital and resources flow upwards, so that beneficent billionaire autocrats can one day send us to a colony on Mars. Or something. Maybe.”

“As I wrote Monday, [Sam] Altman's ouster inflamed a long-simmering feud between two ideologies in the artificial intelligence space: on one side, the effective altruists deathly afraid of going too fast with A.I., and on the other, the "effective accelerationists," or e/accs, who believe we aren't going fast enough.”

“Though Schiffmann does not label himself an effective accelerationist, he does share their overwhelming optimism about AI.”

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