Dystopia Now

Elon Part 2: Doomers vs. Accelerationists


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This week, Kate and Emile dive deeper into Elon Musk's ideology and explore the debate between two Silicon Valley camps, the AI Doomers and the AI Accelerationists.

We explore the effective accelerationism or e/acc movement, a guy named Beff Jezos? Marc Andreessen's Techno Optimist Manifesto, and what Google founder Larry Page really believes.

We also talked about what motivated Emile to do Ph.D research on human extinction. 

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