I don’t think that people who are ok with/optimist about AI development all count as e/acc. e/acc for example has an official manifesto, and it includes sentences like:
e/acc is about having faith in the dynamical adaptation process and aiming to accelerate the advent of its asymptotic limit; often reffered to as the technocapital singularity
Effective accelerationism aims to follow the “will of the universe”: leaning into the thermodynamic bias towards futures with greater and smarter civilizations that are more effective at finding/extracting free energy from the universe and converting it to utility at grander and grander scales
This isn’t just “we think AI will be great and bring more prosperity and all those worries are overblown”. It’s explicitly about making the Singularity happen ASAP. AI optimists like, say, Yann le Cun don’t seem to believe in a Singularity—they think AI will be just another tech.
I don’t think that people who are ok with/optimist about AI development all count as e/acc. e/acc for example has an official manifesto, and it includes sentences like:
This isn’t just “we think AI will be great and bring more prosperity and all those worries are overblown”. It’s explicitly about making the Singularity happen ASAP. AI optimists like, say, Yann le Cun don’t seem to believe in a Singularity—they think AI will be just another tech.