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Effective Accelerationism Humans Replaced By Ai 2023 12 - SMRY

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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. While its public proponents, like Garry Tan, CEO of the startup accelerator Y Combinator and former cofounder of the venture firm Initialized Capital, insist being "e/acc" is not about replacing humans with robots, it's not exactly not about replacing humans with robots. 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," Em

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