Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
by eternityforest on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:44PM
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Utilitarianism has very real utility monsters, and some people seem like they want to make AI into another one...
The original accelerationist manifesto was written by people who did study history. You can find it here: 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-Urb..., which traces it back to, among other things, an essay by Marx
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.