AI and Accelerationism with Marc Andreessen
The a16z Show22 Elo 2025

AI and Accelerationism with Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen, cofounder Andreessen Horowitz, joins the Hermitix podcast for a conversation on AI, accelerationism, energy, and the future.

From the thermodynamic roots of effective accelerationism (E/acc) to the cultural cycles of optimism and fear around new technologies, Marc shares why AI is best understood as code, how nuclear debates mirror today’s AI concerns, and what these shifts mean for society and progress.

Timecodes:

0:00 Introduction

0:51 Podcast Overview & Guest Introduction

1:45 Marc Andreessen’s Background

3:30 Technology’s Role in Society

4:44 The Hermitix Question: Influential Thinkers

8:19 AI: Past, Present, and Future

10:57 Superconductors and Technological Breakthroughs

15:53 Optimism, Pessimism, and Stagnation in Technology

22:54 Fear of Technology and Social Order

29:49 Nuclear Power: Promise and Controversy

34:53 AI Regulation and Societal Impact

41:16 Effective Accelerationism Explained

47:19 Thermodynamics, Life, and Human Progress

53:07 Learned Helplessness and the Role of Elites

1:01:08 The Future: 10–50 Years and Beyond

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Marc on X: https://x.com/pmarca

Marc’s Substack: https://pmarca.substack.com/

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