Effective Accelerationism — e/acc
A blog post by e/acc, e/acc newsletter, dated 1 June 2022. The original post on swarthy.substack.com shows 1 June 2022; the cross-family check read it in an archive capture of 2 June 2022. The quotations were matched in the newsletter's repost of 31 October 2022, which calls itself a verbatim repost and names @zestular, @creatine_cycle, @BasedBeffJezos and @bayeslord as authors.
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- Effective Accelerationism — e/acc e/acc newsletter (effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com) · published 2022-06-01 · 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.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.
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- Accelerate rather than restrainThe inaugural e/acc post of 1 June 2022 states that effective accelerationism is a set of ideas and practices that seek to maximise the probability of the "technocapital singularity".2022-06-01 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Accelerate rather than restrain: propositions page →
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- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableThe 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.2022-06-01 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
- Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligenceThe inaugural e/acc post of 1 June 2022, read in the newsletter's repost of 31 October 2022, states that technocapital can create next-generation lifeforms and silicon-based awareness.2022-06-01 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Capital or the techno-economic process as machine intelligence: propositions page →
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