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Joe Clarence's avatar

>Effective accelerationism aims to follow the “will of the universe”: leaning into the thermodynamic bias towards futures with greater and smarter civilizations that are more effective at finding/extracting free energy from the universe and converting it to utility at grander and grander scales

Suppose your mom has cancer. She goes to the doc. The doc tells her that he *could* treat her cancer, but it wouldn't be the right thing to do: Your mother is middle-aged, and it is the "will of the universe" that she is consumed by cancer and passes away, so that the essential nutrients in her body (e.g. nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus) can cycle through the ecosystem and serve as building blocks for newer and younger living things. The doc doesn't have much to say about cancer. Instead he spends the entire visit giving your mom lots of scientific details related to essential environmental processes such as nitrogen mineralization that your mother's decaying body can contribute to as it lies 6 feet beneath the earth.

Do you find the doc's argument persuasive?

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CJ Real's avatar

e/acc just might be the philosophy future, hopefully it catches on. I personally agree with the application of entropy.

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