Who Is BasedBeffJezos, Leader of the 'E/Acc' Movement?
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#2Ah, I know that guy! Looks like Startup L. Jackson is back.
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#3My interpretation: e/acc is the descent of Silicon Valley venture capitalists into extremism, propelled by the threat of high interest rates.
Another factor is a more (justifiably) pulled-back approach to the tech industry, as people & govts realize the harms of letting technologists run loose and play fast with their power (social media companies are a good example).
Tech optimism (not the odd a16z variety) is great. This wave of e/acc is odd. It feels like an old guard trying to retain relevancy. The world no longer spins around venture capitalists anymore.
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#4The Californian ideology[1] springs eternal, regardless of how they rebrand themselves. The main thing that's new this time is the intentional use of reactionary language.
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#5The Californian ideology[1] springs eternal, regardless of how they rebrand themselves. The main thing that's new this time is the intentional use of reactionary language. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
It is just a rebranding response to the fact that it is no longer acceptable among educated people to describe yourself as a Republican.
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#6A funny thing about these articles is how punching a clock at Google for a few days becomes your identity. You are a former Google quantum AI researcher, regardless of whether you accomplished anything at all.
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#7“Sweeping”…lol
It’s mostly that idiot Andreesen and his aged, irrelevant hangers-on that vomit the e/acc nonsense on twitter and clubhouse.
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#8My interpretation: e/acc is the descent of Silicon Valley venture capitalists into extremism, propelled by the threat of high interest rates. Another factor is a more (justifiably) pulled-back approach to the tech industry, as people & govts realize the harms of letting technologists run loose and play fast with their power (social media companies are a good example). Tech optimism (not the odd a16z variety) is great…
my interpretation of this and prosperity gospel and effective altruism: they're para social vanity beliefs that simply justify them doing what they want to do.
nothing more than a facade operating under capitalism is good.
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#9The Californian ideology[1] springs eternal, regardless of how they rebrand themselves. The main thing that's new this time is the intentional use of reactionary language. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
It is just a rebranding response to the fact that it is no longer acceptable among educated people to describe yourself as a Republican.
I don't think that's it, since the Californian ideology isn't Republican to begin with.
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#10This picked up a lot of controversy and outrage on twitter for its peculair defense of doxxing, but I can't read this article as anything other than unrestrained self-promotion disguised as being outed by a journalist. Is forbes sites even a paid position at forbes? I don't want to libel the author by claiming the piece was planted by Beff himself, but what's more likely, this writer who mostly covers what's trending on tiktok gets a big scoop using voice recognition on a twitter space and then writes a glowing dossier? Or beff got on the phone with a publicist and conjured a big reveal with a softball interview all while namedropping his new startup?
I don't know why I care so much, it just makes me feel crazy to see someone with hundreds of followers taking his word as gospel instead of seeing through the paper thin marketing scheme.