effective accelerationism

The essence of e/acc (effective accelerationism) is a belief‚ based in thermodynamics‚ that existence has certain characteristics that are most amenable to life that continuously expands Life emerged from an out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic process known as dissipative adaptation (see work by Jeremy England): matter reconfigures itself such as to extract energy and utility from its environment such as to serve towards the preservation and replication of its unique phase of matter This dissipative adaptation (derived from the Jarzynski-Crooks fluctuation dissipation theorem) tells us that the universe exponentially favors (in terms of probability of existence/occurrence) futures where matter has adapted itself to capture more free energy and convert it to more entropy Intelligence emerges as a smaller timescale specialization of this adaptation principle; it allows life to identify patterns in the environment which have utility towards acquiring more resources to procreate and/or maintain said intelligent life form Beyond consciousness of single agents‚ one can consider meta-organisms; organizations of many agents forming an emergent whole (e.g. states‚ corporations‚ groups‚ etc.) One goal of e/acc is to not only acknowledge the existence of this underlying mutli-scale adaptive principle‚ but also help its acceleration rather than attempt to decelerate it Technocratic control typically leverages low-order models (typically first or second-order) of resulting consequences of top-down interventions (sudden changes in system hyperparameters‚ e.g. changes in regulations)‚ and often seeks to try to control meta-organisms from simplistic and primitive/human-interpretable world models e/acc is about having faith in the dynamical adaptation process and aiming to accelerate the advent of its asymptotic limit; often reffered to as the technocapital singularity