Treading Carefully: As far as I can see the core problem of the U/Acc - R/Acc debate is unfortunately due to free floating definitions. With this said, let's define:
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L/Acc is quite simply the easiest to define. Accelerating and re-purposing technological innovation as a means towards Communism. In this sense L/Acc is synonymous with FALC.
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R/Acc (oh boy) then isn't necessarily the traditional inverse of the inherent 'Leftism' of L/Acc as much as the inverse of its process, of its Telos. That is, R/Acc is acceleration of capital...for capital's own sake, for its self-fulfillment, as a means of it becoming AI.
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Which brings us to U/Acc, most thoroughly extrapolated by Garton, is quite simply Acceleration without Conditions. So the problem here lies in the end. For many U/Accers are - literally - communists and thus believe the end goal of U/Acc is Communism - in-keeping with Marx.
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In this sense L/Acc and U/Acc are alike in the latter's subjective endgame. The confusion, I believe, is with the R and Rx (reaction). Many R/Accers understand that without conditions capital simply won't accelerate. That leaving unconditional humanity to be the -
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- bootloader for [Capital-as]-AI is a mistake. Our organisational skills fragment as IQs are shredded and we become complacent with the present. Capital doesn't seem to understand the general economy, humans need to help it understand and put conditions in place for it to -
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Replying to @meta_nomad
this confirms my thesis that r/acc thinks humanity needs to be a nanny to capital.
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In your view, did capital 'exist' prior to man?
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as a transcendental process of temporal compression, yes. manifested throughout universal history as ever faster communication topologies, the latest of which is the internet.
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