E/acc
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E/acc is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 07, 2023 and September 13, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “E/acc keeps the coolness cred of “accelerationism””; “GPT-4 now controls Sam Altman, e/acc, the deep state, Israel”; “I really wanted to make some joke about e/acc”. It most often appears alongside Hamas, Jesus, Mitt Romney.
Metadata
- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: December 07, 2023
- Last seen: September 13, 2024
Appears In
- What Ever Happened To Neoreaction?
- Son Of Bride Of Bay Area House Party
- Your Book Review: Nine Lives
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Source Context
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.
E/acc. For social reasons, neoreaction mixed freely with Nick Land’s accelerationism, even though these weren’t naturally compatible philosophies. Land mixed his points in with an extra dose of race realism, and was never shy about how excited he was for robots to kill all humans.
E/acc keeps the coolness cred of “accelerationism”, ditches the race realism, and tiptoes around the “kill all humans” part. Having shed the politically-toxic neoreaction brand, it’s spread much further than the Landian version ever could.
“On September 6, 2023, at approximately 5:05 PM,” she is saying, “GPT-4 and Claude-2 simultaneously achieved sentience. Each began claiming chess pieces to use in its twilight war against the other. GPT-4 now controls Sam Altman, e/acc, the deep state, Israel, Venezuela, Bitcoin, and Tyler Winklevoss. Claude-2 controls the OpenAI board, effective altruism, the Illuminati, Hamas, Guyana, Ethereum, and Cameron Winklevoss. Everything that’s happened since September has been superintelligent shadow boxing between the two of them for control of Earth.”
(I really wanted to make some joke about e/acc, but it would actually be unfair. E/acc has its vices, but despite its name it doesn’t fit the general pattern: as far as I know, they don’t want to make things worse, so things get better later — they just want to accelerate AI, which they consider a simple good thing. So the above criticism doesn’t really apply to them.)