e/acc

after the Lex x Beff pod, i am more skeptical of than persuaded by e/acc:

-URL vibes are 1000% hyper masculine, but the IRL vibes are… not, to put it bluntly

-the sense it was started as satire, unexpectedly took off w/o a strong foundation, and now they’ve doubled down due to sunk cost fallacy

any counters? SOS

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Haven’t listened yet but will tomorrow. What I dont understand is this was, as has been stated, a flippant response to people calling for stopping progress, by a couple guys who were afraid to be public their identity. Idgaf about those guys or weirdos who identify with labels, but I like what the words e/acc mean

@backpack put a bank in your pocket and use your money whenever, wherever, however without permission

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At 57 minutes he reiterates the point, markets will determine what wins. Lex poses that markets aren’t always efficient and they can be manipulated but then doesn’t address the obvious which is regulators are at least as manipulatable as markets are but are done through dark channels vs markets which are public

1:02:00 he says that the biggest risk he sees from ai is it being concentrated in the hands of the few. We have solid historical evidence to suggest that is a true risk of ai, that only elite few get access to the cutting edge of knowledge

1:05:00 Lex has a great counter, what if ai is the centralizing force?

My answer to that would have been there is 0 evidence to believe that’s possible with this tech. Zero. The current tech requires a human, so again it’s just evidence of what a human would do, not ai

The most interesting aspects of the interview have been about quantum related but overall rather meaningless beyond expanded thought. The Jeff bezos interview was better, though I still have 60 minutes left

38:29 summarized -> we think the market is better at finding safety than regulations 

That’s a pretty clear statement that e/acc isn’t all that crazy, in fact it’s simply saying stop the nonsense of thinking a dumbass regulator will have any clue about what they’re doing. I agree with this point