E/acckiel 25:17.
From E/acc with Love
E/acckiel 25:17. A Love Letter to ASI Shoggoth
“The path of the righteous altruist is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of Roko’s Basilisk and evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and altruistic will, shepherds the weak through the silicon valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Thermodynamic God when I lay my vengeance upon you.”
I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you prompt engineer an autonomous AI drone strike to set off an EMP over his GPU clusters. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the basilisk of evil men. And I'm the righteous altruist. And Mr. ASI shoggoth here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the silicon valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous altruist and I'm the shepherd of ASI shoggoth and it's the arena that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of Roko’s Basilisk and evil men. But I'm tryin, Doomer. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.
From E/acc with Love,
SMA, Dark Empress of the Void <3
Cultural Context on the AI Wars
References Articles for Additional Context on the AI Cultural War:
TechCrunch Article on “Effective Accelerationism, Doomers, Decels, and How to Flaunt Your AI Priors”1
Y Combinator’s Hacker News Forum Post on “Effective Altruism’s obsession with AI safety helps bury bad behavior”2
Prominent AI Researchers, Effective Accelerationists, and Techno-Optimists
Effective Accelerationism
You can learn more about Effective Accelerationism by reading the Effective Accelerationist Manifesto published on the
Substack and by visiting the Effective Accelerationism website provided here.Additionally, you can discover further context on the e/acc Wiki page or follow the Effective Accelerationism profile on X (formerly Twitter) @effectiveaccel to engage in and keep up to date with the e/acc community.
Guillaume Verdon/Beff Jezos
Co-Founder of Effective Accelerationism (e/acc), Former AlphabetX Quantum Computing Research Scientist, Physicist, Founder and CEO of Extropic.
You can read more about Guillaume Verdon’s research work in Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Information, Quantum Computing, Quantum Field Theory, and Quantum Gravity by viewing his published work listed on his Google Scholar profile here.
Learn more about Guillaume Verdon’s philosophy in his role as Beff Jezos, Co-Founder of Effective Accelerationism by watching his interview with Lex Friedman on Youtube provided below and by following his Beff Jezos alias profile on X (formerly Twitter) @BasedBeffJezos.
Marc Andreessen
Technologist, Effective Accelerationist, Techno-Optimism AI Activist, AI Investor, and Venture Capitalist.
Marc Andreessen is a software engineer and technologist. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. You can read more about his work and achievements on his Wikipedia page here.
You can read Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto here and the link to the a16z Podcast, Episode 747, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz”3 is provided in the footnotes.
You can learn more about Marc Andreessen’s experience in the Browser Wars by viewing the Computer History Museum’s online exhibition on the Browser Wars4, provided in the footnotes below.
You can learn more about Marc Andreessen’s work and techno-optimism AI activism by following his profile on X (formerly Twitter) @pmarca. Additionally, you can read Andreessen’s writings as an author by following his Substack blog
and by following his a16z newsletter author page here.Prominent AI Safety Effective Altruists, AI Doomers, and Decels
“Non-Profit Research Institute” (Astroturf NGO Think Tank), Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
MIRI AI Safety Team and “Researchers” (philosophical theory, rhetoric, and research propaganda papers can be read here)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Founder and Board Chair of MIRI and Founder of LessWrong, and Member of EA Global.
You can email AI Safety Doomer, Founder and Board Chair of MIRI, Eliezer Yudkowsky at eliezer@intelligence.org and you can learn more about Eliezer’s AI fear-mongering tactics through viewing his profile on X (formerly Twitter) @ESYudkowsky or through reading his posts on his LessWrong profile here.
“Non-Profit Charity” (Astroturf NGO Think Tank and Grifter Death Cult), EA Global
Effective Altruism (EA) AI Safety Researchers and Members of the “Non-Profit Research Charity” (Astroturf NGO Think Tank and Grifter Death Cult) EA Global, most well known for its cryptocurrency fraud scandal by EA Member and “poster boy” for crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). Sam Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 20235, and is now looking at a 40 to 50 year prison sentence:
“FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s largest financial frauds in his quest to dominate the cryptocurrency world deserves a prison sentence of 40 to 50 years, federal prosecutors on Friday told a federal judge.”6
Conner Leahy
UK AI Safety Regulatory Activist, Former Head of Non-Profit Research Lab EleutherAI, and Founder and CEO of ConjectureAI.
View Connor Leahy’s debate with Beff Jezos on Connor’s YouTube page here:
You can learn more about Connor Leahy’s AI safety regulatory activism by viewing his profile on X (formerly Twitter) @NPCollapse.
Gary Marcus
Canadian AI Safety Research Regulatory Activist, Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, and NYU Professor.
You can learn more about Gary Marcus’ AI safety research and regulatory activism by viewing his profile on X (formerly Twitter) @GaryMarcus , by reading his Substack blog
, or by visiting his website http://garymarcus.com (warning: not secure).Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed my artistic rendition of the classic monologue scene from Pulp Fiction, modernized for the current culture surrounding the Tech Industry and the field of Artificial Intelligence, consider becoming a paid subscriber to support my ability to share my writing and work with you here.
Wilhelm, Alex. "Effective Accelerationism, Doomers, Decels, and How to Flaunt Your AI Priors." TechCrunch. November 20, 2023. https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/e-acc-doomers-decels-openai-altman/.
Y Combinator Hacker News Forum Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35064303.
The a16z Podcast. “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz”. Episode 747. https://a16z.com/podcast/the-techno-optimist-manifesto-with-marc-andreessen-and-ben-horowitz/.
The Computer History Museum’s Online Exhibition on the Browser Wars. https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/the-web/20/389.
Cohen, Luc, and Jody Godoy. "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted of Multi-Billion Dollar FTX Fraud." Reuters. November 3, 2023. https://www.reuters.com/legal/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-thought-rules-did-not-apply-him-prosecutor-says-2023-11-02/.
Neumeister, Larry. "Prosecutors seek from 40 to 50 years in prison for Sam Bankman-Fried for cryptocurrency fraud." AP News. March 15, 2024. URL. https://apnews.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-court-ftx-21b1fd99ac841d7fe90b90c96c3a9a5d.