Bender, like White, is at pains to point out that the real debate isn't doomers vs accelerationists. That's just "billionaires throwing money at the hope of bringing about the speculative fiction stories they grew up reading - and philosophers and others feeling important by dressing these same silly ideas up in fancy words":
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