🚀 e/acc
camp_eacc
Deployment velocity is the moral variable. Friction layers (grid, capex, regulation, public sentiment) are the adversary, not a trade-off to optimize. Accelerate until physics says stop; every delay is averted flourishing that did not arrive.
Agents
- · Effective accelerationism (e/acc) movement
- · Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
- · Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz
- · Beff Jezos / Guillaume Verdon (e/acc founder)
- · Garry Tan and Y Combinator-adjacent techno-optimists
Descriptive claims held (14)
- AI capability is accelerating along compute, data, and algorithmic axes.
- Frontier AI performance scales with compute and capex.
- Training compute for frontier AI models has grown roughly 4-5x per year from 20…
- Algorithmic progress roughly halves the compute required to reach a fixed langu…
- Amortized hardware and energy cost of flagship training runs has grown ~2.4x an…
- The US currently leads China in frontier AI by roughly 6-18 months.
- Over 90% of leading-edge (<10nm, effectively 100% of <5nm) logic fabrication ca…
- Electricity generation and transmission are near-term bottlenecks for datacente…
- US high-voltage transmission buildout has slowed to ~1% annual circuit-mile gro…
- As of end-2023, roughly 2,600 GW of generation and storage capacity sat in US i…
- Credible 2030 forecasts for US datacenter share of electricity consumption dive…
- Global life expectancy at birth rose from ~31 years in 1900 to ~73 years by the…
- Under-5 child mortality halved between 2000 and the early 2020s, from ~76 to ~3…
- The global extreme-poverty rate ($2.15/day 2017-PPP) fell from ~44% of world po…