> This might be the best case of the Torment Nexus meme in action.

At least the author seems to think[1] it is one, if in not so many words:

> And don't ever let anyone tell you that Accelerando is techno-optimistic or pro-AI; by the end of the book our entire species is extinct, surviving only as simulations/memories recalled by something arguably not alive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163630