I thought about posting this stuff before, wasn’t sure if it was in scope. There’s more (including a couple more manifestos) here: www.effectiveacceleration.org
E/acc comes across to me as run-of-the-mill libertarianism dressed in sci-fi clothes, and the idea that it’s in any way related to thermodynamics is bait.
In a world of moral totalitarianism, sometimes freedom looks like a short story about sex tourism in the Philippines.
I literally lol’d. Beyond parody.
the answer is to get Peter Thiel to try to magic up Dimes Square out of nothing, isn’t it?
On a actually serious note: When I look back at the multiple years I spent on sneerclub and otherwise following the rationalists, I increasingly feel that I had been tilting at windmills. I had spent most of that time making fun of them instead of looking into their finances, and in doing so I had missed the big picture and simply hadn’t realized how integral Peter Thiel was in propping them up and building a network to support them.
Thiel funds or funded MIRI, EA groups, Curtis Yarvin, FTX and OpenAI.
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
e/acc origin manifestos
For your utter delight and mine....
Urbit Assembly Lisboa is gonna be a hoot (assembly.urbit.org)
The Future of Sovereign AI...
‘Before its too late buddy’: A Code Red Warning about TESCREALism (www.truthdig.com)
Eliezer reveals his inner chūnibyō and inability to do math. (awful.systems)
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