At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” …

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It’s like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” …

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

  • raktheundead
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    91 year ago

    The ultimate STEMlord misunderstanding of culture; something absolutely rife in the Silicon Valley tech-sphere.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      These dudes wouldn’t recognize culture if unsafed its Browning and shot them in the kneecaps.

        • raktheundead
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          51 year ago

          Apparently not; some soldiers appear to have bodged their own safeties by doing things like jamming an expended case underneath the trigger.