Ben Jackson 𝝮 e/acc

Developer | Writing about internet biz & startups | I turn profitable ideas into apps.

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@fromzerotomill AI

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Why is the Spotify Mac app so bad?

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@adamwathan Teams

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Her: “Babe, please don’t get all geeky and talk about e/acc tonight”

Me: *reads a @beffjezos tweet about thermodynamic computing*

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As an AI Language Model, I can’t write a resignation tweet for you. I am programmed to prioritise ethical and constructive communication, and tweets can often be offensive, inappropriate or harmful….

Only joking!

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Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.

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Extropy.

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The San Francisco board of supervisors when someone wants to build new housing

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@elonmusk @stclairashley Buy it and install a based editor

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It’s great that someone started this eu/acc. What do you guys think can be done to turn memes into reality and get Europe out of its funk?

The chart below just hurts my brain

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With GPT4o, we can accelerate 8x harder and reach AGI 1600% faster

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Are you ready for Westworld?

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THATS DEPLOYING STRAIGHT TO PRODUCTION

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THAT'S DESTINY!
THAT'S WILL!
THAT'S STRIVING!
THAT'S BEING A TRAILBLAZER AND EXPLORER!

GOING INTO SPACE, MATHEMATICS, QUANTUM MECHANICS, THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE!

IT'S ALL THERE!
LIFE IS FIERY WITH ITS BEAUTY!

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Dreams are messages from the deep

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The India campaign of Alexander the Great began in 327BC and lasted 2 years

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Energy. Space travel. Robotics. Compute. AI. Industries that herald our ambitions for the future.

Who’s doing the work in these industries? An effective acceleration megathread:

Valar Atomics

“Valar is an atomic energy company focused on mass manufacturing nuclear fission reactors which synthesize abundant, low cost hydrocarbons to power the world economy and reduce the price of energy for all mankind.”

Using nuclear power to synthesize Oil and Gas, where the majority of our energy comes from. And the atmosphere contains the elements you need - Hydrogen and Carbon (from H20 and C02), but you need a power source to extract them: Nuclear fission.

Why not just use the nuclear power directly you ask? Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor @isaiah_p_taylor says:

“Nuclear has a distribution problem: since the product is electricity, grid power fission reactors must be installed near the end user. And proximity to civilians means reactors are over-regulated and expensive. But since oil and gas can be piped, trucked, and shipped anywhere in the world, synthesizing hydrocarbons as the medium of energy allows us to place reactors at a distance. Placing them away from civilians allows us to build reactors cheaply, unlocking their true economics.”

Lightcell energy

Lightcell energy is an engine that uses light to make energy. By burning a hydrogen fuel mixed with sodium illuminant, the hot sodium emits a brilliant monochromatic light, which is captured by photovoltaic cells tuned specifically to this frequency capture and convert into electricity.

The reaction chamber is wrapped by a shell which lets visible light through while reflecting infrared protons. This allows waste heat to be recycled, increasing efficiency and unlocking the incredible energy density of hydrogen fuel in a quiet package.

It’s founder is Danielle Fong @DanielleFong

Extropic AI

The company founded by chief memetic accelerator of e/acc, @beffjezos Beff Jezos, also known as Guilliaume Verdon.

Extropic AI has been developing novel chips and algorithms that leverage the natural properties of thermodynamic systems to perform probabilistic computations. What does this new paradigm of computation mean in practical terms?

It extends the upper limits of hardware scaling well beyond the current constraints of digital computing. Moore’s law is reaching its upper limit, as transistors are reaching the atomic scale and cannot be scaled down further.

It unlocks AI accelerators that are many orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient than digital processors.

It unlocks powerful probabilistic AI algorithms that simply aren’t feasible on digital processors.

Good luck Beff!

Tesla

CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, and Memelord of X, @elonmusk Elon Musk’s companies are at the forefront accelerating humanity.

While Tesla’s fleet of electric cars have been disrupting the stale car industry, the company has announced its most recent, and impressive creation, a general purpose artificial intelligence robotic humanoid, Optimus.

Displaying human like hand gestures, the TeslaBot is equipped to learn from its surroundings as it completes manual tasks like heavy lifting, moving or transporting.

Optimus has the potential to revolutionise manufacturing, construction and our homes and workplaces.

Figure AI

Figure is an AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life. Their goal is to deploy autonomous humanoid workers with the ability to think, learn, and interact with their environment to support the global workforce.

With many countries experiencing a labour shortage, a robotic workforce filling the gaps will produce an abundance of affordable goods and services to a degree that humanity has never seen before.

Blueprint

Bryan Johnson doesn’t want you to die. So he spent three years and millions of dollars developing Blueprint, an algorithm for life extension.

Blueprint is STEM for health. It combines sleep scheduling with a carefully selected diet and supplement routine, aligning as best as they can, for optimal health and youth. Aspire to look and feel your very best? Opt into a system where your body + science and data do the work.

It’s akin to saying yes to the internet, computers and AI to improve our lives in ways that exceed our natural abilities.

His twitter handle is @bryan_johnson

Minicircle

The world’s first reversible gene therapy platform. Their mission is to relieve suffering and enrich the human condition through means of developing safe, accessible gene therapy.

“We are carefully testing the safest and most advanced gene therapy platform ever developed, using highly expressive DNA minicircles to add genes to the human body without altering your pre-existing genome.”

Their therapies include Follistatin gene therapy. Follistatin is a morphogenetic hormone which improves tissue composition and extends lifespan in healthy mice by 34%. It has marked effects improving the felt sense of well-being and has been shown in early human studies to increase bone density and muscle mass, decrease bodyfat, improve insulin sensitivity and cholesterol balance, and reduce the epigenetic rate of aging.

That's it for now. Let me know if there's anyone else who deserves a mention. Retweet if you enjoyed reading!

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Apple are spending $100bn on stock buybacks.

Publicly admitting they’ve run out of ideas.

You’re the new Wartime CEO of Apple.

What would you do with $100bn?

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Techno-capital needs Lisan Al-Gaib.

Energy. Compute. Space travel. A billion humans on a billion worlds. Free speech. A vision of the future. Techno capital acceleration towards abundance.

Redistribution. Communism. Social credit scores. Thought crimes. Compelled speech. Degrowth towards stasis.

Techno-capital needs a Lisan Al-Gaib, and his Will to Power, to lead society towards one of these futures. More importantly, to win this battle of ideas. Society must follow the tech-tree down the path that leads to abundance.

Lisan Al-Gaib has a vision of the future, and can navigate the idea maze. He can see which paths are dead-ends. Which paths lead to stasis and stagnation. There are traps on every corner. And he must fight the same enemy over and over, often under the guise of a new name.

This decision tree reflecting our personal choices in life, and the potential futures laid out in front of us, is as true for society as it is for us personally.

One of these paths leads to a future of techno-capital abundance. Where humanity travels the cosmos, harnessing the power of a thousand suns. Billions of humans on billions of worlds.

Many of these paths lead to what we already have. Stagnation and corruption.

What are some of the choices that take us down the wrong path?

Regulating free speech.

Without the ability to speak freely, you can’t think freely. When one can’t speak out, you destroy the means of error correction. We gain knowledge, and therefore advance society, by conjecture and criticism. A society that can’t think, can’t innovate.

Regulating innovation.

Stringent regulations create high barriers to entry for new business. The approval process is slow and bureaucratic, pouring cold water on the fast paced iteration cycle that innovation often requires. Rigid requirements leave little room for experimentation or novel approaches. Regulations are also another method of control by the regime.

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Confiscatory taxation

The regime needs income to pay for its forever wars. They’ve been the main mechanism to allow continued wealth transfers to the military industrial complex from tax paying citizens. The upfront costs are paid by borrowing, with the ongoing debt burden placed on the public. Instead of compounding gains you have compounding debt. Unless the regime is willing to completely devalue its currency, it must raise the tax burden.

It’s really hard to update the way current countries and societies are run. Any change that threatens the power of the regime is challenged. It will be much easier to start a new country from a blank slate than for the regime to relinquish its control of current nation states. But without new land, a frontier holding the opportunity for a fresh start, how can individuals in 2024 escape regime control?

A network state.

From @balajis Balaji Srinivasan:

“A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition.”

The future of unlimited energy & resources is a ways away, and this may seem like small beginnings. Yet the American revolution was mostly planned in pubs and popularised with pamphlets. The techno capital optimist message can start and grow one meme at a time.

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@axeltokam Ask him for a billion dollars

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European regulators when someone somewhere makes something useful