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.”

  • @gerikson
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    107 months ago

    this is the picture they chose to use.

    You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like.

    • David GerardMA
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      77 months ago

      the cookie cutter glasses are load bearing

      • @blakestaceyMA
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        57 months ago

        That hat could only work with New Year’s Eve glasses from a year with “00”.