e/acc Master's thesis highly commended at EA-leaning Oxford, Andreessen salutes
beffjezos · x · 2026-10-01
Yasmeena Khan's Master's thesis, "Coding Utopia: Effective Accelerationism & Evolving Techno-Optimism in Silicon Valley," received a highly commended distinction at Oxford. Marc Andreessen praised it as brave, noting Oxford has traditionally been very EA-leaning — a signal that the e/acc vs. EA ideological balance in academia may be shifting.
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