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New substack post w/ @bayeslord on some of the principles underlying effective accelerationism Essentially a set of notes following several of our public/private convos Comments/feedback welcome!

Notes on e/acc principles and tenets

A physics-first view of the principles underlying effective accelerationism

beff.substack.com

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this is the most insane account on TikTok

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Elon being a reply guy to Marc Andreesen Jeff Bezos being a reply guy to Delian Schizo tech Twitter adjacent taking over the world

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We made it. All hail our great leader @tszzl

Dr Jordan B Peterson

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So goodbye STEM under the wordcel woke onslaught @pmarca

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"Nuclear bad, AGI bad, tech bad, freedom of speech bad, energetic independence bad, wealth bad, energetic consumption bad, big computers bad, defense bad" What is the latent variable behind these correlated opinions? 🙃 You got it: utility to foreign adversaries.

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Literally have charged 4k$+ an hour fees in the past for my time but I'm out here crafting clever replies to lowbies for a single like.

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Has anyone on tech Twitter ever tried switching from caffeine to nicotine (non-smoking) as your primary stimulant of choice? If so, are the two equivalent?

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Upper mid starter pack: Stanford undergrad, Harvard MBA, McKinsey for a few years, Google PM, loves ESG and corporatized wokeism

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Roon declaring war with the Miami tech bro circle at large was not on my bingo card today

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Pet peeves: YC advice videos where they all try to sound like they're some wise ancient Greek philosophers but they're just basic dudes who were lucky early employees at a note-taking app co

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Silicon Valley elites having to fight tech schizo anons all day on the birdapp hellsite

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Twitter addict bf, Insta addict gf

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Goodnight to those who celebrate

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How it feels to read the average @gbrl_dick post

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When the EA army comes to shutdown the e/acc decentralized AGI network

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Can't believe Will Smith just risked everything to secure his fractionalized ownership of Jada's polyussy

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@sama I can definitely try. 😁

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This is what all big tech broz think their life will be like as soon as they reach financial independence and give up the L+1 big tech grind. The reality is that they will never actually pull the retirement trigger and perpetually get wrecked by market macrocycles

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Having a space with 4k people listening to @Enrique5060782 with @pmarca in the audience while Shkreli fights off Schizos in the roonchat simultaneously is peak tech schizo Twitter. Never deleting this app.

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@powerbottomdad1 A non-autistic person would see this as a sign of interest. I'm too autistic for that, my brain immediately trying to understand how she has no context of the statistical distribution of human bench press maxes or even a conception of weight in general lmfao

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Bodega bro needs to raise a 10M$ pre-seed for <5 min delivery service leveraging ghost kitchens which mainly buy up bodega real estate. Would be a full revenge arc.

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@growing_daniel @tszzl The great war between Daniel and Roon has begun. This is Thucydides' trap manifesting itself for the reigns of schizo Twitter

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Opening LinkedIn makes me want to quit the fields I'm in out of disgust for the cringeposts people make trying to mid-bait on that platform

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You need to be tech-boomer-maxxing, you need to form a business in hardware/world of atoms, based on top-down B2B GTM, make deals based on firmness of handshakes and tone of voice, building and selling real shit to real people.

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The year is 2024, I am the last schizo in the metaverses and this is my story

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it’s 2024. e/acc chats 28-473 form the first internationally recognized network state. the cornchat waitlists unionize and sue corn syrup, only to learn cornchat never existed in the first place. rectumchat wins their second pulitzer for their work covering their own war crimes

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If your ideas and technology aren't deemed "demonic", you're not accelerating fast enough

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It's over for humancels. All anti-AI-art arguments I've heard are simply cope and seethe.

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Holy sh*t "shape rotation" made it into Palmer Luckey's talk. We made it, Schizos.

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@KyleKashuv The mental gymnastics of prioritizing psychological safety over physical safety are simply fucked.

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How to get shit done on days you're not feeling it: -procrastinate all day -beat yourself up -give up for the day -brain will chill and thus reward you with revenge productivity; procrastinating on the procrastination -win

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What it feels like to date someone on the based schizo autist monk mode grindset

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"what if AI is optimizing something of low utility?" My brother in Christ, meet the engagement-optimizing multi-layer perceptron that already rules over your life from Google servers.

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Neo-ludditism is NGMI. Get on board or get left behind. You can have your little Ted K appreciatoor shrine once we've colonized the galaxy

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How I imagine SF party convos: "So are you an EA? Rat? Post-rat? Tpoter? e/acc? MIRIcel? Or decel?"

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EA AI safety maximalists vs e/acc based singularity appreciators will be the Butlerian Jihad proxy war of our time

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> doesn't speak to any other human for 3 straight weeks to go full autist monkmode > decides to take a break, spends 10 hours straight on Twitter spaces

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introducing effective accelerationism; e/acc

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Too businessy for scientific folks, too technical for businessy folks. Welcome to being a deep tech founder.

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Science broz will literally grind themselves to a pulp for 2 years to eventually make a thread about their new scientific paper that ends up only getting ~90 likes instead of going to therapy

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A storm is coming... 🤖🧠🚀🌌

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@paulg just say the word, PG

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@pmarca Babe, wake up, the inventor of Schizoposting is back on Twitter

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You need to be autistmaxxing. Pure Monkmode grindset. No social interaction. Your life is simply an eternal pursuit of fractally concatenated dopaminergic rabbit holes.

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@Jason @PalmerLuckey @peteoxenham Schizo tech Twitter watching this rn

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@Scott_Wiener How about fuck no.

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I am incapable of living a life that is not dedicated fully to some form of grind and I've come to accept it.

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There are two choices anon: 1) take the e/acc pill, and we accelerate us all towards a greater and grander future, taking civilization to the stars 2) take the zero-sum-ESG-ÇÇP-degrowth-authoritarian-socialist pill and turn us back to the misery of the stone age Which way anon?

Balaji

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This graph shows that the future is not inevitable. A previous generation of technologists lost to the establishment. That means every promising curve we have today in tech can be similarly interrupted. Flatlined, driven to zero. Unless we just push harder and faster this time.

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Tech plebs when they need a startup idea and YC tells them "WoRk oN a PrObLeM yOu'Ve HaD yOuRsElF"

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Some VC firms straight up taking a sabbatical for the rest of the year (I shit you not). Insanely short-sighted. They will miss out on the truly meta-based founders who start companies in a recession.

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Zero-sum, status-maxxing, indefinite optimists. Insanely mid, groupthink maxxer. Zero mental variance or schizo alpha, negative agency in determining their own path.

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Shitposts allow for a culling of overly serious followers. A natural shedding process of the intellectually unplayful

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Shape rotators vs wordcels = SO(3) Gauge-equivariant neural nets vs Transformers

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@BasedBeff

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@stoolpresidente @nooners Template for anyone who needs it

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Seeing all the younger (early 20s) Technology Brothers go through their gym-autist phase like a proud father 🥹 They grow up so fast 💪🏋️‍♂️📈🥹

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Carmack confirmed hella based and e/acc

Gill Verdon

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Some takeaways from @ID_AA_Carmack on Lex Fridman: -now is highest-leverage moment in history to work on AGI -estimates AGI ETA ~2030 -code for AGI will be simple/single-dev implementable -fast takeoff ("AI foom") is implausible

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@MIntellego @sama

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How the fuck are ya'll going to all these tech conferences and managing to build anything?

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The cancellation mob has now come for your pile of linear algebra. We knew this day would come.

Arthur Holland Michel

@WriteArthur

2 years

Today in "AI Ethics." A YouTuber trained a language model on millions of 4chan posts and released it publicly. It has already been downloaded 1.5k times. One user, @KathrynECramer , tested it a few hrs ago by prompting it with a "benign tweet" from her feed. Its output: the N-word.

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AI safety researchers are the AI equivalent of the eco activists that caused the shut down of German nuclear plants; pushing idealistic worldviews without realizing the leverage they are giving to amoral adversaries in the process.

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@MrAndyNgo @elonmusk Hold up, Twitter has engineers?? What the fuck do they do all day? This product is a mess

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@KyleKashuv "Can't have police cuz some wokies might find it offensive"🤡

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@BasedBeff

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lol. lmao.

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@BasedBeff

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The three poisoned gift of the CCP and their target demo: 1) TikTok (GenZ) 2) Zoom (Millenials/Xers) 3) Fentanyl (Boomers/Xers) All three of these are made to turn you into a braindead zombie, drain you of your will to live, and void America of its vigor.

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@BasedBeff

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More power to states will allow for more geographic competition and variance. The USA is a portfolio of ways to govern and folks are free to try out different states. More variance and competition is always good for convergence onto optimal governance.

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"PMs are good actually"

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POV: you are cybernetic post-humanist outcast deemed "demonic" and in your exile you form an off-shore network state node for unregulated AI research called "H311" with your e/acc brethren

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The Marvelization/fandomification of war is going to end badly when the ending doesn't match the typical Disney script.

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@BasedBeff

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@lexfridman it's not a simulation bro. Can hop on the pod to explain it to you if you'd like

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@BasedBeff

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@sama OpenAI certainly leading the charge at the moment. 🙏🚀🤖

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@BasedBeff

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Effective accelerationism is what you get when ML engineers have had enough of technocrats and authoritarians trying to insert themselves in the power hierarchy of AI as the gatekeepers and controllers of its power. Help unleash the beast, or get out of the way.

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@BasedBeff

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@10x_er Secluded compound in the woods. Starlink internet. Personal cloud cluster. Robot assistants. Autist endgame.