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Podcast: Book Club From Hell
Episode: #80 Notes on e/acc principles and tenets - BasedBeffJezos and bayeslord
Description: Effective accelerationism ('e/acc') is a largely online movement seeking to promote technological optimism. Their evangelism mostly takes the form of shitposting and memes, but something more substantial will occasionally appear. Two such pieces of more substantial e/acc thought are 'What the f* is e/acc?' (authorship unclear) and 'Notes on e/acc principles and tenants,' by @basedbeffjezos and @bayeslord. As it happens, if we just keep building, keep funding tech startups, and keep our chins up, everything will be fine (according to physics). I'm only being slightly facetious. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONW...