e/acc's Beff Jezos: you can be a Doomer or a Foomer, choose wisely
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-15
Beff Jezos, figurehead of the e/acc movement, posted a one-liner riffing on classic AI-culture terms: "you can be a Doomer or you can be a Foomer — choose wisely," condensing the community's slow-vs-fast takeoff debate into a lifestyle choice.
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