Somehow, 69,000 people have now decided that accelerating technological progress is more interesting than complaining about it.
Excellent judgment.
What began as a small community for positive, future-focused discussion about AI, robotics, biotech and technological advancement has continued to grow absurdly quickly. The subreddit now receives millions of views and tens of thousands of comments each month.
Along the way, we have also banned around 3,500 decels, luddites and spammers. Considering that only a small percentage of subscribers ever comment, decels really are a very loud minority.
Still, they have failed to stop the acceleration. Tragic.
Thank you to everyone who posts, comments, shares new developments and helps make this one of the most relentlessly optimistic technology communities on Reddit.
This is an extremely mature and dignified milestone, and we intend to treat it with the seriousness it deserves.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the subreddit and helped it reach this extremely mature and dignified milestone.
XLR8!