At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” …

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It’s like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” …

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

  • @200fifty
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    111 year ago

    It’s like pickup artistry on a societal scale.

    It really does illustrate the way they see culture not as, like, a beautiful evolving dynamic system that makes life worth living, but instead as a stupid game to be won or a nuisance getting in the way of their world domination efforts

    • David GerardMA
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      81 year ago

      remember that Yudkowsky’s CEV idea was literally to analytically solve ethics

      • @blakestaceyMA
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        81 year ago

        In an essay that somehow manages to offhandendly mention both evolutionary psychology and hentai anime in the same paragraph.