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Effective accelerationism
Philosophical and social movement
Effective accelerationism
Effective accelerationism (e/acc) is a 21st-century ideological movement that advocates for accelerating AI development as rapidly as possible, favoring baseline humanity's intellectual, moral, cultural, spiritual, and social obsolescence through artificial intelligence or transhumanism. During the second Donald Trump administration, it has influenced the executive policy of the United States on artificial intelligence. The movement calls for developing superintelligence, an intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest, rapidly while opposing much of AI safety. Nick Land is the intellectual originator of contemporary effective accelerationism, and accelerationism more broadly. Land wove together ideas from the occult, cybernetics, science fiction, and poststructuralist philosophy to describe what he saw as the phenomena of technocapitalist acceleration. The earliest known reference to the movement can be traced back to a May 2022...
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