'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about progress at all costs

Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by z7 on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:45AM (#38684886)

>Tan, who is Y Combinator's president, tweeted last week that "e/acc is not 'replace humans with robots'," instead it's a vision that believes "more tech means more humans, more prosperity, but also more AIs."

Well, at least on this[0] site I'm reading:

>We have no affinity for biological humans or even the human mind structure. We are posthumanists in the sense that we recognize the supremacy of higher forms of free energy accumulation over lesser forms of free energy accumulation.

[0] https://effectiveacceleration.tech

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by GTP on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:03PM (#38685133)

What does "free energy accumulation" mean? Is it just some intelligent-sounding term to refer to some physical thing/being?

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by realce on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:52AM (#38684981)

"e/acc is not an ideology. It is not a movement. It is simply an acknowledgement of truth."

I'm pretty sure that's what totalitarian groups always say? It's not an opinion that your race is less than ours, it's a FACT. These people are mad.

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by malermeister on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:05PM (#38685152)

"I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology. The material force of ideology - makes me not see what I'm effectively eating. It's not only our reality which enslaves us. The tragedy of our predicament - when we are within ideology, is that - when we think that we escape it into our dreams - at that point we are within ideology."

- Slavoj Zizek.

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by 5040 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @09:38AM (#38696018)

When someone treats a rhetorical flourish in an overly literal manner, is he deliberately misrepresenting a group he dislikes, or is it just a misreading?

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by realce on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:47PM (#38702127)

You think I'm treating the rhetoric of this borg manifesto too harshly?

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by Tommstein on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:55PM (#38685865)

> >We have no affinity for biological humans or even the human mind structure. We are posthumanists in the sense that we recognize the supremacy of higher forms of free energy accumulation over lesser forms of free energy accumulation.

When you write a manifesto while tripping balls . . . .

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