Beff Jezos mocks EAs: "ready to ruin the world for crumbs of status in their Berkeley polycule"
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-15
e/acc leader Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) quote-tweeted Nic Carter's take that many people "secretly yearn for the apocalypse" as a manifestation of status anxiety — with Marxism, climate fear, AI x-risk, prepper culture and anti-capitalism as faces of the same "secular millenarianism."
Jezos escalated: "The thing about EAs is that they are ready to ruin the world for crumbs of status within their Berkeley polycule." Another loud round in the e/acc vs. AI-safety feud — classic AI-drama material.
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