In hindsight, it was obvious that the e/acc movement would take off, obvious people would attempt to sanity wash it, and obvious the attempt would fail. Tech NEEDED an ideological justification for why building AI was not just neutral, but good. They needed a justification for all the money they were making that went beyond "we built a better product faster than the competition. So they gravitated towards the most coherent philosophical justification for what they had already decided to do. Of course, anyone who read more than a few pages of Beff Jezos's manifestos, or the writings of Nick Land realizes immediately what an utterly anti-human philosophy it truly is. At its core, e/acc is an attempt to stare into the abyss, at the seemingly inevitable decimation of ourselves, our loved ones, and all we hold dear and still feel ok about it all. Of course a philosophy that justified such a future would be bizarre and anti-human. Of course its proponents are nuts. But there was really no other unapologetically pro-AI philosophy around. So tech did its best to embrace e/acc and its priests, even though they might make the public feel a bit uncomfortable. Any movement with energy that justified what they were already doing was welcomed. And if a few of the edges had to be sanded down, so be it. Now it's late 2026, and the underlying philosophy has eaten its way out of the industry that swallowed it. Elon, one of the greatest champions of the old-school science fiction dreams of spreading humanities to the stars, is now tweeting about how "Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader." Gone are the dreams of a bright future for humans. Gone is the mask. Our most powerful men are either in denial about the monster they are creating, or have replaced their dreams of human greatness with dreams of having the honor of being the first to feed all 8 billion of us to the machine.