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#EffectiveAccelerationism

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People (2)

  • Brian Chau Canadian olympiad mathematician who founded the anti-regulation AI think tank Alliance for the Future, left it in 2025, then founded Effort, a publication investigating Coefficient Giving's funding of journalists and policy staff.
  • Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen is the Netscape cofounder and venture capitalist behind Andreessen Horowitz who became the leading patron of effective accelerationism, authored the 2023 Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and helped lead the Silicon Valley turn toward Donald Trump in 2024.

Organizations (2)

  • Andreessen Horowitz Venture firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, a registered investment adviser from 2019, whose American Dynamism fund invests in defense and whose partner Scott Kupor was named to head OPM.
  • Leading the Future Super PAC registered in Henderson, Nevada, in 2025, funded with 75.1 million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz, Greg and Anna Brockman and Perplexity, which passes its money to affiliated committees spending in 2026 congressional races.

Concepts (1)

  • Effective Accelerationism Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) is a Silicon Valley techno-optimist movement that emerged in 2022 advocating the unrestricted acceleration of artificial intelligence and technology, defined against effective altruism's AI-safety 'doomerism,' and drawing on the accelerationism of Nick Land.