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This raised more questions than answers for me.

What are we even talking about here? Economic theory? Political ideology? Philosophy?

What exactly is anti-Fordist, accelerationism, L/ACC, R/ACC and CCRU?

That's what happens when someone wants to look/sound smart, but actually isn't - lots of jargon, piled like spaghetti, impossible to follow.

Actual smart people are generally effective at explaining complex things succinctly and in simple terms.

A bit harsh. He might be busy rather than a charlatan.

I often err on the hand-wavey side when I don't have time to do the topic any justice. It was just a HN comment after all.

Yes. Though effective communication involves knowing who you are speaking too.

I have a mental model about the typical HN reader. So, for example, I would not bother explaining the term 'container' in the context of application deployment. Even for devops who don't use containers, just hanging around here providers plenty of exposure to that concept.

But in this case...

It sounds like a lot of it is social circles. It's hard to explain social circles without using internal shorthand.

If it is any consolation, I had the same reaction. I could look up all those terms, but I'm not interested enough to bother.

New for me, too. Looks like accelerationism is a bit of everything. Legitimate applied philosophy, I guess the communists were some early accelerationists.

I feel like this is the link someone above me should have shared:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism#Contemporary_a...

SEEMS LIKE philosophy-type sub-communities trying to figure out how to use all this new tech these past few decades to achieve 'post-capitalism'. Lots of room for different political tribes, in that direction.

Tempted to check out a book related to this stuff, but I haven't exactly had my philosophical world rocked yet by anything I've read about it yet.

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