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E/acc coalesced on X, formerly Twitter, during 2022, propagated by a small number of pseudonymous accounts, chiefly one writing as "Beff Jezos" and another as "Bayeslord". Its early output consisted of Substack posts and a stream of posts in a deliberately hyperbolic register, mixing thermodynamics, startup vocabulary and irony in a way that made the boundary between argument and performance difficult to locate — a feature its participants regarded as a defence against outside criticism.E/acc coalesced on X, formerly Twitter, during 2022, propagated by a small number of pseudonymous accounts, chiefly one writing as "Beff Jezos" and another as "Bayeslord". Its early output consisted of Substack posts and a stream of posts in a deliberately hyperbolic register, mixing thermodynamics, startup vocabulary and irony in a way that made the boundary between argument and performance difficult to locate — a feature its participants regarded as a defence against outside criticism. In December 2023 *Forbes* identified Beff Jezos as Guillaume Verdon, a physicist who had worked on quantum machine learning at Google and had founded a hardware startup, Extropic, whose name is an explicit nod to the earlier movement.[^forbes2023] The unmasking gave the movement a named figure and moved it from anonymous internet culture into technology-industry politics.In December 2023 *Forbes* identified Beff Jezos as Guillaume Verdon, a physicist who had worked on quantum machine learning at Google and had founded a hardware startup, [Extropic](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/extropic), whose name is an explicit nod to the earlier movement.[^forbes2023] The unmasking gave the movement a named figure and moved it from anonymous internet culture into technology-industry politics. Its most consequential adjacent text is Marc Andreessen's "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", published in October 2023, which argues that technology is the source of all growth and that "our enemy" includes sustainability, trust and safety, tech ethics, and risk management as named categories.[^andreessen2023] Andreessen listed a set of intellectual "patron saints" that included the Italian Futurist Filippo Marinetti, whose later fascist affiliations drew immediate criticism and which Andreessen did not address.Its most consequential adjacent text is Marc Andreessen's "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", published in October 2023, which argues that technology is the source of all growth and that "our enemy" includes sustainability, trust and safety, tech ethics, and risk management as named categories.[^andreessen2023] Andreessen listed a set of intellectual "patron saints" that included the Italian Futurist Filippo Marinetti, whose later fascist affiliations drew immediate criticism and which Andreessen did not address. lines 89–95 → 89–9544 unchanged lines not shown
## Influence## Influence The movement's measurable effects are political rather than technical. Its vocabulary is now standard in parts of the venture-capital and AI-startup world, it supplied a ready-made counter-position during the regulatory debates of 2023 through 2025, and it made open-weight release a partisan identity rather than a technical choice. It has not produced research, a policy programme with detail, or an institution comparable to those it opposes.The movement's measurable effects are political rather than technical. Its vocabulary is now standard in parts of the venture-capital and AI-startup world, it supplied a ready-made counter-position during the regulatory debates of 2023 through 2025, and it made [open-weight](https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/open_weights) release a partisan identity rather than a technical choice. It has not produced research, a policy programme with detail, or an institution comparable to those it opposes. Its longer significance may be as evidence about how technological ideologies now form. Extropianism took a mailing list and a decade to assemble a few hundred people; e/acc assembled a comparable intellectual position, and considerably more political weight, in under two years and without a single peer-reviewed page. Whether a movement built that way can sustain a position once its opponents' predictions become testable is the question its next few years will answer.Its longer significance may be as evidence about how technological ideologies now form. Extropianism took a mailing list and a decade to assemble a few hundred people; e/acc assembled a comparable intellectual position, and considerably more political weight, in under two years and without a single peer-reviewed page. Whether a movement built that way can sustain a position once its opponents' predictions become testable is the question its next few years will answer. removed, struck through added, underlinedLine numbers count the serialised markdown of each revision, frontmatter included.
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