Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
November 29, 2023
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Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
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Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Summary
Molly White, Ryan Broderick, and Deepa Seetharaman join Big Technology Podcast to dive deep into the Effective Altruism (EA) vs. Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) debate in Silicon Valley that may have been at the heart of the OpenAI debacle. White is a crypto researcher and critic who writes Citation Needed on Substack, Broderick is an internet culture reporter who writes Garbage Day on Substack, Seetharaman is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal who covers AI. Our three guests join to discuss who these groups are, how they formed, how their influence played into the OpenAI coup and counter-coup, and where they go from here.
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