At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” …
When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It’s like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” …
On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”
I wonder if there’s a corporation that’s the equivalent of the Harvard name-non-drop?
eg. “Oh, at the last company I worked at, a little tech company in northern Santa Clara, we used to say ‘don’t be evil,’ just a little thing we said.”
“I used to work for a small search engine company”
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true, tho google wants you to think the sizes are the other way around.