- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Molly White is best known for shining a light on the silliness and fraud that are cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3. This essay may be a sign that she’s shifting her focus to our sneerworthy friends in the extended rationalism universe. If so, that’s an excellent development. Molly’s great.
the apparently original e/acc post, i think i’ve seen it but can’t find it
Seems like it’s this: https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-tenets
I think that’s it — it’s the one Timnit Gebru linked to back in February which prompted the old!SneerClub discussion I mentioned, and Molly White’s newsletter links to the same place.
I found this earlier one, which it cites as its source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220602164803/https://swarthy.substack.com/p/effective-accelerationism-eacc?s=r
All that’s before that is these few guys throwing the term around on Twitter
I’m wanking at the speed of light / wanna make a meta-fractal brain out of you
(Don’t torture me now) I’m having such a productive time, I’m having a QALY!
@earthquake @dgerard I just read some of this and it made me substantially stupider
It’s important to stretch before reading their stuff. A good stretch is to find the latest fad and argue how it’s an addiction.
Then, afterwards, you need to cool off and detox. I recommend some Quake, but finding a new favorite album also works.
quake is still fucking awesome and the remasters of 1 and 2 are great for an impromptu steam deck lan party