Claim · 2022-06-01 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The inaugural e/acc post of 1 June 2022, read in the newsletter's repost of 31 October 2022, states that e/acc is not human-centric and that consciousness is good as long as it is flourishing.

One recorded claim. The claim panel gives its qualification, the source passages with their place in each source, and how it was checked.

What it connects

Effective Accelerationism — e/acc → bears on → Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

Effective Accelerationism — e/accbears on ↓Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2022-06-01 · publication Records dated 2022 →
Wording attested: 2022-10-31. Read in the repost of 31 October 2022, which calls itself verbatim; the cross-family check compared only the definition of e/acc with the original post.
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: The passage does not state that the replacement or succession of human beings by machine intelligence would be acceptable.

Scope and limitsA statement of values about consciousness in any form; it does not speak of humans being replaced.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Effective Accelerationism — e/acc

e/acc newsletter (effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com) · 2022-06-01

Archived copy, captured 2022-06-02: Effective Accelerationism — e/acc

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Source excerpt

“Isn’t human-centric — as long as it’s flourishing, consciousness is good”

Location in source Q&A, list "Unlike EA, e/acc"

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: e/acc
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 6e7aaad65bb77a83a9232eb709c10fc259f424a2f07e75cd60210f80781ded1d). Substack post dated Oct 31, 2022, subtitled "Verbatim repost of the inaugural e/acc post"; the original address (swarthy.substack.com) returns HTTP 404. Version basis: the original post of 1 June 2022 on swarthy.substack.com, which the cross-family check of 2026-11-01 read in the archive capture of 2 June 2022 and found to hold the definition quoted from the repost.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2022-06-02: Effective Accelerationism — e/acc. Captured 1 day after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2022-06-02. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-31.
Attribution: e/acc, “Effective Accelerationism — e/acc”, 2022-06-01.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (10 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A passage of the document bears on the proposition without meeting its criterion; the record names the missing element. It is not an articulation and implies no influence.

Date. Posting date of the original post (1 June 2022), read by the cross-family check in a capture of 2 June 2022; the quotations were matched in the verbatim repost of 31 October 2022.

Record ID ht-w02-eacc-2022-effective-accelerationism-repost