Superstition or Faith? China Closes Hundreds of Centers and Confiscates Property Under Marxist Test A Liaoning court has sentenced eight people linked to Create Abundance to seven to nine months in prison under Criminal Law Article 300 for “using superstition to undermine the implementation of law.” The Xinmin Municipal People’s Court tried the defendants on January 9, 2025; none appealed. Authorities cast the group, founded by Zhang Xinyue, as a criminal organization promoting “cosmic energy” and “spiritual healing.” ChinaAid warns that treating theism and spiritual teaching as criminal evidence under Marxist standards endangers every independent community of conscience. Demand fair trials and an end to belief-based prosecutions—share this report and urge governments to press China for independent review of the seizures. Read Now #ReligiousFreedom# #ChinaPersecution# #Article300# #CreateAbundance# #FreedomOfBelief#

At its core, Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) is a bunch of people in a group chat, sharing ideas, posting memes, and pushing back against the doomers. Until recently, there was no funding, no formal organization, and barely any structure. Just people who believe the future is worth building. e/acc has helped show the world why technological acceleration matters. Faster progress means better tools to cure diseases, create abundance, and improve people's lives. Every year we hold it back is another year people wait for those breakthroughs. Considering how little the movement had to work with, its impact on the world has been extraordinary!

Precautionary Scarcity (noun) When fear of concentrated power becomes so intense that society suppresses productive capacity itself and mistakes stagnation for safety. 20th-century version: fear concentrated capital so much that you impede capital formation. 21st-century version: fear concentrated superintelligence so much that you impede intelligence formation. The shared error is confusing capacity with control. Marx wanted the productive forces expanded, not abolished. Effective Altruism wants suffering minimized, yet can risk counting harms caused by AI more heavily than the cures, abundance, and lives lost when progress is delayed. The pathology begins when: “No one should control that much power” quietly becomes: “That much power should not exist.” The challenge is not to prevent abundance. It is to create abundance without creating unaccountable domination.