Private Wires on Substack
In her piece, Emily [Baker-White] characterizes Beff as a “provocative” account on Twitter “leading the ‘effective accelerationism’ [e/acc] movement sweeping Silicon Valley,” a joke name obviously chosen in mocking reference to Effective Altruism, the philosophical agent of OpenAI’s recent near death experience. Beff’s desire? Nothing less than “unfettered, technology-crazed capitalism,” whatever that means. His ideas are “extreme,” Emily argues. This is a man who believes growth, technology, and capitalism must come “at the expense of nearly anything else,” by which she means the fantasy list of “social problems” argued by a string of previously unknown “experts” throughout her hit job, but never actually defined. This story is important, Emily all but explicitly writes of her own work, as Beff is a powerful man, puppeteering such other powerful men as Garry Tan and Marc Andreessen — the real targets of this piece.
At one point, Emily mentions Beff’s cultish new cabal of power players on the internet (random tech guys posting stuff) created shirts and hats printed with “e/acc,” which is argued an insidious attempt at mass, memetic manipulation. These people threw a party once, we are told, but not just any party. This was a party of adherents to a chilling new philosophy. A dark gathering of fringe zealots — Grimes was there!
Your children are not safe.
“At its core,” Emily writes, “effective accelerationism embraces the idea that social problems can be solved purely with advances in technology, rather than by messy human deliberation.”
Your sense that technological progress has increased human abundance, and the city of San Francisco is poorly run? This is a dangerous idea. More
The Forbes article Here
Bezos gave billions to BLM. He’s a freak. That home wrecker he hooked up with is telling. Hope she dumps him for some 20 year old.
The older I get, the more I hate technology.
Stirrin, it ain’t technology. It’s communism.
Check this out:
Hamas’ Devastating Weapon of War: Western Media:
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Anpnymous, it is technology. It’s technology that facilitates communism, without firing a shot.
“I do think at a certain
point you’ve made enough money.” – 0bama
Oh shit technology tain’t bad! It’s how it is used. My God they said the same thing about the gas powered car. Use it or lose it. Your choice.
I’ve been called a lot of things, but I’ve never been called Beff before. That’s a new one on me. It sounds like someone called him that with a drunken slur. “How’s it hanging, Beff.” And if they had called him Beffrey that would’ve been worse.
It’s not that I dislike technology, it’s just that it advances faster than I am able to keep up with. Thank goodness for grandchildren, without which I probably could not use my “smart” phone.
I am known as a tech tard with my kids. Which is why I went back to using a flip phone. Smart phones and I don’t get along at all And I can’t text to save my life.