Guillaume Verdon
Physicist who founded effective accelerationism under the name Beff Jezos
A physicist and founder of the computing company Extropic. Writing as “Beff Jezos”, he started effective accelerationism (e/acc), the movement arguing that technological growth should be sped up rather than slowed.
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