“On the Debate Between Jezos and Leahy” by Zvi

Previously: Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists

Based Beff Jezos, the founder of effective accelerationism, delivered on his previous pledge, and did indeed debate what is to be done to navigate into the future with a highly Worthy Opponent in Connor Leahy.

The moderator almost entirely stayed out of it, and intervened well when he did, so this was a highly fair arena. It's Jezos versus Leahy. Let's get ready to rumble!

I wanted to be sure I got the arguments right and fully stated my responses and refutations, so I took extensive notes including timestamps. On theme for this debate, this is a situation where you either do that while listening, or once you have already listened you are in practice never going to go back.

That does not mean you have to read all those notes and arguments. It is certainly an option [...]

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Outline:

(01:32) Actually Based Beff Jezos (ABBJ)

(05:13) Bold Based Beff Jezos (BBBJ)

(13:00) Caustic Based Beff Jezos (CBBZ)

(17:50) What about Connor Leahy?

(19:56) Around the Debate in 80 Notes

(01:39:14) Afterwards

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First published:
February 6th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xjoKqevCRnhXzHRLT/on-the-debate-between-jezos-and-leahy

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.