My take is that AGI has started to feel much more real. It’s easy to root for accelerationism in the abstract and harder when you’re wondering whether your career will end in a few years.
Well, it was pretty obviously quite dumb. The lack of any argument that holds up to 5 minutes of scrutiny was quite damning for e/acc to get traction as an intellectual movement beyond the social and memetic aspects.
also, there’s nothing to actually do if you’re an e/acc that differentiates you from non tech broy people, other than maybe posting a bit on twitter. for a movement to persist and survive past it’s initial founding boost, it needs to have things for the people to do that feel very very important that let them see themselves and others who are in the movement as very very different from people who aren’t in the movement.
This is my impression too.
Why do you think it died?
My take is that AGI has started to feel much more real. It’s easy to root for accelerationism in the abstract and harder when you’re wondering whether your career will end in a few years.
Well, it was pretty obviously quite dumb. The lack of any argument that holds up to 5 minutes of scrutiny was quite damning for e/acc to get traction as an intellectual movement beyond the social and memetic aspects.
also, there’s nothing to actually do if you’re an e/acc that differentiates you from non tech broy people, other than maybe posting a bit on twitter. for a movement to persist and survive past it’s initial founding boost, it needs to have things for the people to do that feel very very important that let them see themselves and others who are in the movement as very very different from people who aren’t in the movement.
I mean, most of them sound great if you’re an edgy 15 year old on a pseudo-philosophical kick.