effective accelerationist

English

Noun

effective accelerationist (plural effective accelerationists)

1. A proponent of effective accelerationism.
   • 2023 October 17, Janus Rose, “Major Tech Investor Calls Architect of Fascism a 'Saint' in Unhinged Manifesto”, in VICE‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-11-27:

     Effective accelerationists essentially believe that tech is universally good, that our planet is doomed, and that the only way to save the human species is by letting capital and resources flow upwards, so that beneficent billionaire autocrats can one day send us to a colony on Mars. Or something. Maybe.

   • 2023 November 22, Nitish Pahwa, “Sam’s Town”, in Slate‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-01:

     As I wrote Monday, [Sam] Altman's ouster inflamed a long-simmering feud between two ideologies in the artificial intelligence space: on one side, the effective altruists deathly afraid of going too fast with A.I., and on the other, the "effective accelerationists," or e/accs, who believe we aren't going fast enough.

   • 2023 December 3, Hewson Duffy, “Harvard Dropout Avi Schiffmann is Making an AI-Powered 'Wearable Mom'”, in The Harvard Crimson‎^[3], Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Crimson, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-04:

     Though Schiffmann does not label himself an effective accelerationist, he does share their overwhelming optimism about AI.

Derived terms

• e/acc (abbreviation)