Effective Accelerationism and the Future of Humanity

There's a kind of current trend,

um,

which I'm sure you guys have all heard of, but it calls itself effective

accelerationism, e/acc.

Mm-hmm.

And that is really,

I think,

in this respect, defined by sort

of, uh, erasing that sentence.

You know, for, it's, uh, it's acceleration

without nothing human makes it out of the near future.

And

I can respect why that's been done, and it's certainly good

PR,

but at the same time, I think that there's a c- certain philosophical

disappointment about it.

Mm-hmm.

You know, I think that it's, there's something a little bit

self-deluding

of thinking that what we're talking about

with the future, the radical future, is some kind of Star

Trek scenario of, like, higher primates in space.

You know? It's like, it seems to me to just really

not be a plausible,

a plausible model.