‘It’s a Cult’: Inside Effective Accelerationism, the Pro-AI Movement Taking Over Silicon Valley

“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, Y Combinator president Garry Tan and Notion co-founder Chris Prucha looked up at the cartoon of a shirtless man, his six-pack abs gleaming against a swirling galactic background. They were eager to listen to what the man had to say.

The cartoon was the avatar for Beff Jezos (nope, not Jeff Bezos), the pseudonymous co-founder of effective accelerationism (nope, not effective altruism), Silicon Valley’s new eccentric subculture hellbent on encouraging relentless technological growth. The September 17th …

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