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

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5 likes but no replies…

does that mean you guys share skepticism but have no counters?

Horticulturalist. Environmental hand wringer. Open source enthusiast.

ya, the response is typically “I’m for tech optimism” which is not an intelligent counter because it’s answering the wrong question. 

there are many approaches in the spirit of tech optimism. the question is why is e/acc the right or best one.

Seems to be a pretty common response to skepticism of e/accc. No one seems prepared to stand up and respond to criticism.

What’s to counter? 

The whole thing was a clown show from the beginning, premised on false dichotomies. 

And yet it was being perpetuated through the availability cascades. Why? Cui bono?

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Allegedly a designer.

agree, this was another point of convo that concerned me.

his issues with being “doxxed” as pressure on free speech and therefore free thought felt like a stretch, and ironically very doomery and insecure to me.

it is far more powerful for a movement to have a doxxed leader, unless you doubt the leader…

I keep falling asleep during it, but equivocating free speech with maximizing propagation of LLMs is a glaring flaw to me.

https://x.com/tszzl/status/1713348642323702175?s=20

lol 

being god and playing god, not the same thing.