https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation
"As Sam Bankman-Fried rose and fell, people outside of Silicon Valley began to
hear about “effective altruism” (EA) for the first time. Then rifts emerged
within OpenAI with the ouster and then reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman, and the
newer phrase “effective accelerationism” (often abbreviated to “e/acc” on
Twitter) began to enter the mainstream.
Both ideologies ostensibly center on improving the fate of humanity, offering
anyone who adopts the label an easy way to brand themselves as a deep-thinking
do-gooder. At the most surface level, both sound reasonable. Who wouldn’t want
to be effective in their altruism, after all? And surely it’s just a simple
fact that technological development would accelerate given that newer advances
build off the old, right?
But scratching the surface of both reveal their true form: a twisted morass of
Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed.
Same as it always was."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
