🎬 Movie Night: e/acc vs d/acc - Vitalik Buterin x Beff Jezos

​Two of tech's most provocative thinkers. One conversation about the future of AI and humanity.

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum who's become one of crypto's most influential philosophers, squares off against Beff Jezos (real name Guillaume Verdon), the pseudonymous quantum physicist who founded the e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement in 2022 and became one of Silicon Valley's most polarizing voices.

Vitalik argues for d/acc - defensive (or decentralized) accelerationism - the idea that we should aggressively build technology BUT invest equally in defense, safety tools, and decentralized governance. Move fast, but build shields.

Beff argues for e/acc - effective accelerationism - that technological progress is a thermodynamic imperative, that slowing down AI development is both futile and dangerous, and that the best path forward is to accelerate as hard as possible.