Beff Jezos and Effective Accelerationism: Machine God of Loving Grace – #115

Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon) is a Canadian physicist, quantum computing researcher, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of the Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) movement.

This interview was recorded in collaboration with John Greer and Lei Huang for the documentary film Machine God.

John Greer: https://www.johncgreer.com/

Chapter Markers:

(00:00) - Meet Beff Jezos

(01:56) - Hyperstition vs AI Doom

(21:29) - Accelerate or Die

(37:51) - Scaling Intelligence Upside

(40:26) - Doomers Power Centralization

(47:17) - EAC Physics Framework

(01:10:10) - Debating Doom Narratives

(01:16:13) - Beff Jezos Origin Story