e/acc's Vision for the Future Slammed as "Bleak"
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-07-15
The reshared post criticizes the anti-regulation narrative within the e/acc community. While they argue that regulating AI will delay a technological utopia, they often end up opposing measures like child safety rules, anti-malaria bed nets, and restrictions on factory farming.
The author summarizes this vision of the future as one where humans live in offshore casinos, animals are trapped in factory farms, and the rest of the galaxy is strip-mined for compute, calling it a "shockingly bleak vision."
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