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

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

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?

ah, agree wholeheartedly. thank you for saying this so clearly.

it also goes to show that many smart people, regardless of how “smart” they believe themselves to be, are just as willing as the “normies” to abandon independent and critical thinking in order to belong to a group or a movement. sad.

The argument to accelerate at any cost, and irrespective of risks, is a fundamentally unserious position

And the with-us-or-against-us tenor revealed the advocates to be fundamentally unserious people

There are more than the two options of acceleration vs moving backwards