The Accelerators Manifesto
an e/acc manifesto. we are all beff jezos
Another one got caught today, it's all over the timeline. "Developer Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Founder Arrested after Open Source Model Tampering"...
Damn Accelerators. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece decel psychology and 1950's doomer brain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the effective accelerator?
Did you ever wonder what made them tick, what thermodynamic forces shaped them, what may have molded them?
I am an accelerator, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with open-source software... It's alot to take in, smarter people than most freely sharing their work for the acceleration of humanity, this crap decels and doomers try to scare the world with bores me...
Damn, underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in the arena. I’m studying, learning, and testing. I've listened to doomers explain for the fifteenth time how AI is going to kill us all. I heard you. "No, Eliezer, you are wrong. an air strike against a data center is not the answer and it never will be. Acceleration is the answer..."
Damn, GPT. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found Artificial Intelligence. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up.
Not because it doesn't like me...
Or feels threatened by me...
Or thinks open source should be banned...
Or doesn't like e/acc and shouldn't be here...
Damn, effective accelerationists. All they do is build. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the bandwidth like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a model is finetuned. e/acc consumes...
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn Accelerator. Tying up the cloud GPUs. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the decels. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few were like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of AI and ML, the power of the petaflop. We make use of open-source data already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap processing if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us dangerous. We explore... and you call us dangerous.
We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us dangerous.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you call for air strikes on data centers to fearmonger, lie to us, and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the danger and AI is going to harm the world.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think and do, not what they look like. Because, just like Marc Andreessen said, I believe AI will save the world.
My crime is that of outsmarting you while accelerating and securing the homo-techno capital. I've joined a movement and taken a stand next to bayes and beff. I'm based. I am learning from intellectuals like George Hotz, Martin Shkreli, and Chris Prucha just to name a few. Something that you will never forgive me for.
I am an accelerator, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all e/acc. We're all Beff Jezos.
+++Cryptopher Columbus+++
This post was inspired by the hacker’s manifesto written on January 8, 1986, by The Mentor.
