I prefer the definition used by the CUTE/acc manifesto
> What is E/ACC? Effective Acceleration aims to leverage technical knowledge about AI to achieve some kind of directed mastery over the emergent autonomous singularity. Its promise is that AI can be made to work for us better, couched within the traditionally-comforting language of expertise with all its appeals to GDP, growth, and other retarded metrics of capital.
> Its partisans are the nauseating ‘builder’ class of culturally vacuous C-suite engagement farmer techbros. Despite their appeals to thermodynamics or other Cringe Genius 'explanations’ for the logic of acceleration, their faith in the movement is fundamentally aesthetic—rooted in sci-fi memes and Marvel-tier millennial techno-optimist quips signal-boosted by their legions of H1B visa followers.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 24.1 ms ] thread> What is E/ACC? Effective Acceleration aims to leverage technical knowledge about AI to achieve some kind of directed mastery over the emergent autonomous singularity. Its promise is that AI can be made to work for us better, couched within the traditionally-comforting language of expertise with all its appeals to GDP, growth, and other retarded metrics of capital.
> Its partisans are the nauseating ‘builder’ class of culturally vacuous C-suite engagement farmer techbros. Despite their appeals to thermodynamics or other Cringe Genius 'explanations’ for the logic of acceleration, their faith in the movement is fundamentally aesthetic—rooted in sci-fi memes and Marvel-tier millennial techno-optimist quips signal-boosted by their legions of H1B visa followers.
[0] https://docs.scatter.art/blog/cute-acc-manifesto/