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"The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it", Business Insider 12/30/2023:
The Effective Accelerationism movement — a staunchly pro-AI ideology that has Silicon Valley split over how artificial intelligence should be regulated — appears to be walking a razor's edge between being a techno-libertarian philosophy and a nihilistic, even reckless, approach to advancing one of the world's most significant technological developments. […]
A riff on the effective altruism, or "EA," philosophy touted by tech influencers like Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk, e/acc took off in 2023, though its exact origins remain unclear. The movement has attracted a cast of unlikely characters, including venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli.
"EA and e/acc are mostly the same people," Emmett Shear, the former interim CEO of OpenAI, said in an interview with Meridian. "Their only difference is a value judgment on whether or not humanity getting wiped out is a problem."
The Wikipedia pages for Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism are less one-sided. Effective Altruism has its own web site, and so does Effective Accelerationism, as well as a shop where you can buy some useful things like a spiral-bound notebook to take into the singularity with you…
I haven't yet seen any other "effective" movements, but maybe we can look forward to some language-related initiatives like Effective Prescriptivism, Effective Functionalism, and whatever?
Anonymous said,
December 31, 2023 @ 6:11 pm
Even further, you have “Effective Effectivism”:
> From my casual observer's point of view, ideologies with "effective" in the title usually aren't. So I am going to found a movement called "Effective Effectivism" whose goal is to create ideologies with "effective" in the title that are actually effective at something.
– https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1635425986375475200
Garrett Wollman said,
December 31, 2023 @ 7:51 pm
Looking forward to Effective Limitarianism, which will give these people some actual work to do that doesn't involve plotting the end of humanity.
AntC said,
December 31, 2023 @ 8:39 pm
So I am going to found a movement …
Yeah, this is just asking for parodies. SBF, Musk, Shkreli: effective bollox.
Lex said,
December 31, 2023 @ 10:25 pm
Pardon me, but I’m gonna start the ‘Effective Assholism’ Movement: Using your worst self to bring about a better world.
Benjamin E. Orsatti said,
January 1, 2024 @ 11:24 am
Lex said, "I’m gonna start the ‘Effective Assholism’ Movement: Using your worst self to bring about a better world."
No need. Primaries are coming up in 2 months; the Movement has been started for you.
Stephen Goranson said,
January 1, 2024 @ 4:47 pm
If only it were named
The Effective United States
perhaps the Civil War could have been avoided….
Richard Futrell said,
January 1, 2024 @ 7:24 pm
The fact that there are T-shirt shops isn't really much evidence that this is a large or organized movement, in a world where anyone can make a storefront website using ChatGPT in a few hours.
Roscoe said,
January 2, 2024 @ 3:30 pm
“Calvin and Hobbes” gave us Effective Time Management:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/05/14
Bill said,
January 6, 2024 @ 11:37 am
Interested in "reviewing" this hilarious Engrish?
https://engrish.com/2008/02/and-you-gonna-be-sorry/