It's not surprising that natural selection is so oriented around replication, because replication is the easiest way to generate more structure.

The universe wants us to basically be alive. The universe wants us to become more sophisticated.

The universe wants us to replicate. The universe feeds us and essentially a limited amount of energy and raw materials with which to do that.

Yes, we dump entropy out the other side, but we get structure and life to basically compensate

for that.

That's the thermodynamic underpins of effective accelerationism.

Today, we're running a drop from the Hermetics podcast featuring a conversation with

Mark Andreessen.

In this episode, they discuss AI, accelerationism, effective accelerationism, or EAC, energy, the future of technology, and much more.

Let's get into it.

This episode, I'm joined by Mark Andresen to discuss accelerationism, AI, technology, the future, energy, and more.

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So, Mark Andres,

thanks very much for joining us on Hermetics podcast.

Hey James,

thanks for having me.

We are going to be discussing accelerationism,

AI, technology,

the future.

Technology is probably the key one here,

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