e/acc

if your techno-optimism needs to be a religion for technology to succeed, your technology isn't good enough.

destroying the skeptics doesn't bring about the future, it just creates enemies out of your future users.

idk, to me it's not a political ideology & not a religion. memes can just be memes. and tbqh, e/acc itself is on par with an NFT community on CT, which is to say that the market will decide if people enter or exit.

if the implication is that this is misguided support for technological adoption...what culture isn't?

𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖆𝖉 𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆

the implication is that technology as a religion rather than tools toward an external goal is a self-sabotage that will alienate the very market you require to succeed.

I don't think it's just about aesthetics - it's about creating something useful for your user (aesthetically or economically) rather than authoritatively demanding they accept technology that doesn't meet them where they are.

tech has gone from creating magic for the world to demanding the world call them magicians.

(March 2, 2011 while launching the iPad 2)

I get the Apple ethos, being a former owner, but tbqh I think a lot of the tech like LLMs or protocols like version control just need to reduce friction. aesthetics is a luxury retrospective to the mechanics that work with max resource constraints (the best part of Apple).