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accelerationists

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accelerationists

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accelerationists is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 04, 2023 and October 24, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “I complain a lot about the accelerationists’ failure to present real arguments”; “Are we the baddies? Nah, we are just Accelerationists”; “You might expect Progress Studies conference-goers to be natural accelerationists”. It most often appears alongside New York, 1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled, 1960s.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: December 04, 2023
  • Last seen: October 24, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Open Thread 305
December 04, 2023 · Original source
Also, I complain a lot about the accelerationists’ failure to present real arguments or respond to critiques, but this is a good time to remember they’re still doing better than the media and its allies:
Your Book Review: Nine Lives
September 13, 2024 · Original source
This is a good moment to note that that jihadists in the book are all obsessed with Israel, mostly not because they are angry at the oppression of Palestinians (Muslims are oppressed in many places around the world), but because Jerusalem features in a lot of prophecies, so it’s really important for it to be under Muslim rule. They also passionately hate the USA, partly because of its support of Israel, but maybe even more importantly because the US has stationed troops in Saudi Arabia since the Gulf War. This was a reasonable thing to do against a potential Iraqi invasion that was a very real threat while Saddam was in power. But Infidel soldiers staying in the country of Mecca and Medina was considered a huge sacrilege by the jihadists and made them hate the US a lot. Are we the baddies? Nah, we are just Accelerationists Other than occupying specific Syrian villages for prophecy reasons, is there a general Grand Strategy that the jihadists follow? I already alluded to how ISIS was thinking, and these plans were often very explicitly laid down by Dean’s comrades and superiors inside al-Qaeda. Roughly, this is the four step Jihadist Master Plan:
Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
October 24, 2024 · Original source
You might expect Progress Studies conference-goers to be natural accelerationists, but the mood was more subdued. Most of the people I talked to (again, maybe there was an unintentional bias) were worried about safety, understood intelligence explosion dynamics, and didn’t really know where this whole thing was going. Most continued to awkwardly support AI anyway, out of some generic loyalty to Progress. “Within ten years, AI progress could threaten the future of the human race - and if we fight really hard, we can bring that down to five!” I mock them, but I have a little of this impulse in me too, and will always be a little suspicious of anyone who doesn’t.