Claim · 2022-07-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Beff Jezos and bayes's post of 10 July 2022 states that one goal of e/acc is to help the acceleration of a multi-scale adaptive principle rather than attempt to decelerate it, and that over-regulating technologies "slows down progress", which it presents as "a contrast to anti-AGI factions of EA".

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What it connects

Notes on e/acc principles and tenets → articulates → Accelerate rather than restrain

Where it appears

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

Claim and evidence

Notes on e/acc principles and tenetsarticulates ↓Accelerate rather than restrain

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2022-07-10 · publication Records dated 2022 →
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsA statement of the authors' programme, not evidence of its consequences. The adaptive process is described as physical and civilisational; machine intelligence enters through the passages on AGI and non-biological substrates.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Notes on e/acc principles and tenets

Beff's Newsletter (beff.substack.com) · 2022-07-10

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Source excerpt

“but also help its acceleration rather than attempt to decelerate it”

Location in source Point-form notes, the paragraph beginning "One goal of e/acc"

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Beff Jezos; bayes
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 8a66d074cbddc194096c9d5541f3e8f5204de87459dcd0409efc7fa1080258a2). Substack post dated Jul 10, 2022, as served on 2026-10-31; the same text was reposted on effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com on 2022-10-31.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Beff Jezos, bayes, “Notes on e/acc principles and tenets”, 2022-07-10.
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 (11 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 45) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Notes on e/acc principles and tenets

Beff's Newsletter (beff.substack.com) · 2022-07-10

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Source excerpt

“over-regulating technologies suppresses variance and hence slows down progress … a contrast to anti-AGI factions of EA”

Location in source Point-form notes, paragraph after the embedded post of Jul 8, 2022

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Beff Jezos; bayes
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 8a66d074cbddc194096c9d5541f3e8f5204de87459dcd0409efc7fa1080258a2). Substack post dated Jul 10, 2022, as served on 2026-10-31; the same text was reposted on effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com on 2022-10-31.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Beff Jezos, bayes, “Notes on e/acc principles and tenets”, 2022-07-10.
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 (16 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 45) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review.

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Record ID ht-w08-jezos-bayes-2022-notes-eacc-principles