In that light, e/acc can be seen as an on ramp for some people to support plowing ahead with AI. It doesn’t matter if their message is consistent with other people supporting AI acceleration. The point of an alliance is that there are many different on ramps, and it is the destination that matters
My read on the situation is that each major camp, accelerationists, pragmatist, and doomers, are an alliance of policy preferences. https://naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/three-perspectives-on-ai-accelerationism-pragmatism-doomerism/
In that light, e/acc can be seen as an on ramp for some people to support plowing ahead with AI. It doesn’t matter if their message is consistent with other people supporting AI acceleration. The point of an alliance is that there are many different on ramps, and it is the destination that matters