209 - Why e/acc Is Right with Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon)
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan and David unpacking the episode:
https://bankless.com/debrief-e-acc-beff-jezos
One guest, two identities. Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) is a founding father of the e/acc movement, a physicist, a quantum researcher, and the founder of an AI startup called Extropic. Beff thinks AI doomers are not only wrong, but they’re taking humanity in the worst possible direction. Growth. Acceleration. Progress. These are the core pillars of the e/acc movement. Instead of slowing down on AI progress, Beff explains why we should be speeding up.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
7:15 Why Pseudonym
15:01 The e/acc Pil
31:54 Fume
36:25 Beff’s Beliefs
39:39 Defining e/acc
40:52 The Dangers of AI?
52:05 Why We’re Here & The e/acc Religion?
58:19 Thermodynamics & Life
1:06:16 Maximizing Human Happiness?
1:16:25 Forgetting Society’s Bottom Half
1:23:00 Cancer Also Grows?
1:29:01 AI Regulation
1:33:09 Social Media’s Mistake
1:36:30 AI Bill of Rights
1:38:26 Domesticating AI
1:41:00 Biggest Threats Against e/acc
1:43:43 AI Humans vs. Humans
1:46:09 e/acc vs. Decels…Violence?
1:49:09 Beff’s Thoughts on Crypto
1:54:36 Beff’s Company - Extropic
1:58:18 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Beff Jezos
https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos
Guillaume Verdon
https://twitter.com/GillVerd
Extropic
https://twitter.com/Extropic_AI
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| 0:00.0 | What we're advocating for with EOC is sort of freedom of access to compute freedom of access to AI |
| 0:05.7 | We don't want these centralized entities just like a central bank like inflating away your money to control |
| 0:12.1 | Access to advanced AI. |
| 0:13.6 | We want it in the hands of many, |
| 0:15.2 | because otherwise the centralized parties |
| 0:17.2 | are going to abuse their power. Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. |
| 0:29.6 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more |
| 0:33.9 | bankless or maybe more EAC in today's episode right David? More acceleration |
| 0:39.0 | yeah. Beth Jesos is the founding father of EAC, that's effective accelerationism. |
| 0:44.6 | This is a philosophy that thinks AI doomers are not only wrong, they're taking humanity in |
| 0:49.8 | the worst possible direction. |
| 0:52.2 | The emphasis here is growth, acceleration, progress, these are the core pillars and instead of slowing down on AI, |
| 0:59.5 | Beth explains today why we should be speeding up. I think this is a direct answer to an |
| 1:04.8 | episode that we recorded over a year ago with Eliezer Eudkowski on why we are |
| 1:09.2 | all doomed and why AI is going to kill us all. So it's a debate, I guess, if you listen to those two episodes |
| 1:15.3 | sequentially. |
| 1:16.3 | We talk about a few things on today's episode, |
| 1:18.1 | including why AI isn't going to kill us after all, |
| 1:21.0 | according to Beth. |
| 1:22.0 | And what is YACac he explains the fundamentals and why |
| 1:25.5 | eac is more than just AI for bef jesos it's an entire philosophy for life also we get into what in the world homotechno capital memetic |
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