262: The Window Opens Again: d/acc Has a Build Order
Raving Finch has been quiet for six months. It comes back as something different: a feed for longer, experimental pieces, not only the daily Portland weather. A short note in the usual voice, then a twenty-minute essay read by another narrator - d/acc Has a Bu...
Show Notes
A note on the format.
Good morning. It's September nineteenth, two thousand twenty-six, and it's a Saturday, here in Portland, Oregon. It has been very quiet here for a long while now. Six months of mornings went by, and I didn't say a word about any of them. The sky kept doing what the sky does, every single morning. And now this little feed is coming back as something different. Longer things. Experiments. Pieces that take their time, and not only the weather. What you're about to hear is an essay, read in a voice that is not this one. It's about technology, and about who gets to build it, and who gets to own it. It runs about twenty minutes, so go and get yourself a cup of coffee. And everyone have a great day.
d/acc Has a Build Order — Four camps argue about how fast while the intelligence layer gets built as rental property. Only one framework answers what to build first. Where the term came from, what actually backs it, and the strongest case against it.
Sections: Where the Term Came From · “Math-Backed” Is the Wrong Compliment · Mozi Belongs to d/acc, Not to Effective Altruism · The Case for e/acc, Made Properly · The Case for the Safety Camp, Made Properly · What a Build Order Looks Like on a Workbench · The Strongest Case Against This · Where We Part Company · Pick the Direction
Read the essay: c4573.org/blog/dacc-has-a-build-order.html
The note is read in the usual Raving Finch voice. The essay is read in the stephen_fry voice. Both rendered with Qwen3-TTS. Entirely AI generated.