But at that point, 24 hours goes by, the speculation had shifted from, okay, did Sam do something crazy terrible too? Was there just some sort of internal power struggle? I think that the most common explanation at this point was around the idea that perhaps there was just some huge disagreement around safety questions and around risk questions. And it started to be sort of interpreted as the effective altruists on the one hand versus the accelerationists, the EACCs on the other hand. That started to be Tell people a little bit just quickly for people that don't know, what do we mean by accelerationists? Accelerationists who are not scared of the risks of AI and AGI in particular and think that it leads to a world of abundance. Now, there's infinite variations within that. There's just people who are sort of broadly techno-optimist accelerationists who think that technology is going to be a net good force for humanity, but maybe who still have some questions on the specifics here. (13/57)
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