Energy
Cheap, abundant power sits under every other gain. More watts per person means more of everything else.
01 About
What the slash stands for
e/acc stands for effective accelerationism. The whole Elysium timeline is full of it.
Elysium tweets it. Kinetiq tweets it. Founders, ecosystem projects, builders and degens spam it. The whole community is in on it. At this point, it deserves its own meme.
02 Ideas
Four ideas the community keeps coming back to
Compute
Intelligence scales with compute. More chips, more data centres, more models trained and shared in the open.
Build
Progress comes from people shipping things. Prototypes over permission slips, releases over long debates.
Expand
Growth carries on past the atmosphere. Orbit, habitats and other worlds are the next places to build.
03 Ascent
The energy ladder
In 1964 the astronomer Nikolai Kardashev ranked civilisations by how much energy they can put to work. Carl Sagan later turned it into a sliding scale. On his formula humanity sits at about 0.73.
Accelerationists treat that number as the scoreboard. Every step up the ladder is ten billion times more power than the one before.
Now0.73
~2 × 1013 W
Fossil fuels, early nuclear and fast-growing solar. One planet, partly tapped.
TypeI
1016 W
All the energy that reaches a single planet, put to use.
TypeII
1026 W
The full output of one star, gathered by structures built around it.
TypeIII
1036 W
The power of an entire galaxy, across billions of stars.
ACCELERATE