The e/acc movement has a lot of flagrantly macho rhetoric, and they tend to portray people concerned about AI safety as weak, effeminate, neurotic, and fearful.
On the other hand, they seem to be eager to dive into a kind of fetishistic submission to AI, which isn’t actually very macho.
I know it may be considered unseemly to psycho-analyze their movement on EA Forum, but, as you say, it’s a movement driven by vibes, image, and rhetoric, rather than by rational/empirical arguments, and they need to be confronted on that basis.
Chris—well said. I think this is accurate.
The e/acc movement has a lot of flagrantly macho rhetoric, and they tend to portray people concerned about AI safety as weak, effeminate, neurotic, and fearful.
On the other hand, they seem to be eager to dive into a kind of fetishistic submission to AI, which isn’t actually very macho.
I know it may be considered unseemly to psycho-analyze their movement on EA Forum, but, as you say, it’s a movement driven by vibes, image, and rhetoric, rather than by rational/empirical arguments, and they need to be confronted on that basis.