I found e/acc, like most people in the world today, through irony. It stands for effective accelerationism a memetic movement mocking effective altruism. A buzzword murmured in semi-serious, semi-tongue-in-cheek fashion, usually in the proximity, but close enough to irritate it.


That’s the point isn’t it?.

e/acc is not an ideology. There are no people occupying highways in its name. No moral preaching. No moral accounting. It’s mostly a prop to highlight the uncomfortable fact: acceleration is a victory that’s already been won, and most people are emotionally unprepared for this fact.

What passes for “progressive politics” in the world today is actually conservation masquerading as morality. Limit growth. Stagnate diversity. Prevent anyone from venturing too far above the median. This is not progressivism; this is risk management with a pretty face. History has not been kind to people whose first instinct is to hit the brakes.

The interesting part is not acceleration but administration. Large organizations no longer optimize for outcomes; they optimize for process. The bridge is less important than the checklist that verifies the bridge was built correctly. Process is the end because ends are messy they imply accountability.

This is why the professional managerial class persists. Process is safeguarded by role. Goals are threats to them.

The interesting thing about individuals such as Elon Musk is not the talk, but the modus operandi. Endless disruption will destabilize process before it has a chance to solidify. In such a scenario, all one can do is look at results. Chaos, as a tactic, will shatter the bureaucracy.

This is not something that can be replicated on a human scale. Dictatorship does not parallelize well.

But if the judge, and not the workers, is replaced by something that is non-human, the dynamic changes. A system that is not ruled by a single result, but by an evaluation function that is too complex to be video game-ified. Beyond Goodhart. Beyond checkbox culture.


The open question isn’t whether acceleration continues.
It’s whether our institutions learn to survive it.