Human Acceleration (hacc, said like “hack”) is the choice to point AI at people instead of around them. Not braking the technology, and not flooring it for its own sake. Aiming it: at making humans more capable, and faster at becoming so.
It is a third position. The doomers want to slow the machine down. The accelerationists want full throttle at the machine. Human Acceleration takes the disruption as a given, because arguing about whether it is coming is a waste of a perfectly good decade, and asks the only question that was ever actually up to us: where do we aim the thing? Point it at the work and you get a thinner org doing the same things cheaper. Point it at the people and you get centaurs, Garry Kasparov’s word for the human-plus-machine teams that beat both the best humans and the best machines for years. Same technology, opposite outcomes.
The bottleneck was never the machine. It was always how fast we adapt around it, and that part is a choice. A haccer (said like “hacker”) is someone who makes it.