Accelerationism and Longtermism

[FemMecha]

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[ceecee]

This has always been a white supremacist ideology. Collapse the government and society with the endgame being a white ethnostate utopia.

2 white supremacists tried to spark race war by soliciting murder and hate crimes on Telegram, feds say

Dallas Humber, 34, and Matthew Allison, 37, are accused of helping plot attacks based on race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, the Justice Department said.

www.nbcnews.com

Kind of makes sense that they arrested the head of Telegram a couple weeks ago.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pavel-durov-has-nothing-hide-telegram-says-arrested-founder-2024-08-26/

While I don't really care for YT videos to explain things like this (too much room for veiled support and lack of critical thinking audience) Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism by Benjamin Noys is the best book I've read on the subject.

 

[ygolo]

This is a new idea to me but it explains the choices of some of the billionaires. These two apparently opposite notions overlap more than you would think on the surface. I’m not promoting the ideas but think this explains a lot of the choices we are seeing from people like Musk. These topics are important to understand and discuss further.

Both have key pathology of the ends justifying the means. The key process of doing this is utilitarianism.

So much what's going wrong in the modern world is this notion that the ends justify the means.

The bias is dressed up to be "rational" through "utility functions."

It's no surprise that Eugenesists and White Supremacists are drawn by similar people.

I had watched both those videos closer to when they came out. I believe @The Cat made me aware of acceleration. I was aware of e/acc before accelerationism in this form.

There's a game, Half-Earth Socialism that also uses the term. But it's use of "accelerationism" closer to "Techno-optimsm" than the version of bringing about the pain faster so we can move on.

It's a game based on the philosophy of the following book:

Half Earth Socialism

A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics

www.half.earth

See if you can win the game without using means that you find unjustified. It's an easy game to win otherwise. I'm mainly vegan myself, so even actions I'd not do in real-life, like banning meat was less visceral for me, but I find it uncomfortable, and in game, I try to do it when people are happiest.

I played Sim City (both old versions as a kid, and newer a little bit when older).

There's plenty of politics in the Sim City game design as well.

‘SimCity’ Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy Land

Beneath its playful exterior, the beloved game that inspired a generation of real-world urban designers betrays a partisan view of social planning.

www.wired.com

Again, see if you can build a city in this toy land where the means you employ are aligned with your values and you still reach the ends you want.

I wish every political-economist/philosophy created a model and a simulation game based on that model.

You can then experience what means the political-economist wants you to employ.

There's software that can allow you to make economic models:

Minsky

Download Minsky for free. System dynamics program with additional features for economics. Minsky brings system dynamics and monetary modelling to economics. Models are defined using flowcharts on a drawing canvas (as are Matlab's Simulink, Vensim, Stella, etc).

sourceforge.net

I've downloaded it to try to encode my own earlier. But I am no professional.

To be clear, I absolutely insist that the ends do not justify the means.

Some level of Deontology is needed, I believe.

 

[ygolo]

I know healthcare has a lot of problems, but that's exactly why ethicicists and philosophers coming from that world can be more thoughtful and nuanced, I believe.

Drawing from their frameworks may be better than the simplic things accelerationists and long-termists espouse.

An ethical analysis of clinical triage protocols and decision-making frameworks: what do the principles of justice, freedom, and a disability rights approach demand of us? - BMC Medical Ethics

Background The expectation of pandemic-induced severe resource shortages has prompted authorities to draft and update frameworks to guide clinical decision-making and patient triage. While these documents differ in scope, they share a utilitarian focus on the maximization of benefit. This...

bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com

Capabilities theory recognizes that justice requires the fulfillment of central human capabilities which are conducive to a flourishing life lived with dignity. These capabilities include: life, bodily health, bodily integrity, senses, imagination, and thought; emotions; practical reason; affiliation; interactions with other species; play; and control over one’s environment [29].

In some form, [all ten capabilities] are held to be part of a minimum account of social justice: a society that does not guarantee these to all citizens, at some appropriate threshold level, falls short of being a fully just society, whatever its level of opulence [29].