Effective Obfuscation
Effective Obfuscation
Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.
Molly White is best known for shining a light on the silliness and fraud that are cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3. This essay may be a sign that she's shifting her focus to our sneerworthy friends in the extended rationalism universe. If so, that's an excellent development. Molly's great.
Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.
i assure you that it has. The AI people are awful though.
For example, the inaugural Substack post defining effective accelerationisms’s “principles and tenets” name-drops the “Jarzynski-Crooks fluctuation dissipation theorem”
To echo a comment from old!SneerClub: That's not a thing. There are three separate but related ideas (the Crooks fluctuation theorem, the Jarzynski equality and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem) which the author doesn't know are separate, because he hasn't a clue what he's talking about.
This arrived just in time for me to use it in an online argument. Thanks.
Must be another one of those hundred hostile bloggers who inexplicably have it in for EA, according to siskind.
i am reasonably sure that Molly knows precisely who these fucks are and is not a fan
Thank you for sharing this! An excellent read with really good insight.
The link is dead, now hosted at [citation needed]