Accelerationia
#006 · Menlo Park, California · founded by Marc Andreessen
“It is time to build.”
Permitless construction. AI-assisted everything. Citizens ship a startup or a building or a child every year. Decline is illegal here.
founders, builders, technocapital optimists, the techno-optimist manifesto fan club.
📍Menlo Park, California
The Menlo Park / Atherton corridor is already a soft network state. a16z runs Crypto School, Build, and the American Dynamism portfolio out of Menlo. Convert one of the strip malls along Sand Hill into the Accelerationia citizen campus, with no zoning permits required because the polity charters its own.
The moral case.
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto is a constitution that needs a polity. Marc has the capital, the writing, and the fan base. The only thing keeping Accelerationia from existing is an actual address.
From idea to polity.
- 01Acquire 5 acres of Sand Hill commercial real estate as the founding node
- 02Charter the polity around the Techno-Optimist Manifesto
- 03Open citizen residency to American Dynamism portfolio companies and their families
- 04Charter a permitting court that approves all builds within 14 days
- 05Apply for member-state status with Interneta after 1,000 citizens
Why I sent you this link.
I have lived at Network School for over a year. I have watched the network state thesis go from a book to a real, lived experiment. I have seen Balaji put it to work, and I have seen what is missing.
The missing piece is a federation. A meta-layer that gives every distinct community a constitutional home, a shared census, an interoperable passport, an anthem, and a way to recognize each other as legitimate.
That is what Interneta is. The United States of Interneta. The optimistic meta-layer for network states.
Accelerationia is what I think you would build, if you decided to build one. The One Commandment is what I have inferred from your public work. The site scout, the next steps, the citizenry: all educated guesses. They are wrong wherever you say so.
If any of this lands, I would love a fifteen-minute conversation. If none of it lands, I would still love your reply telling me where I missed.