The Codecratic Accelerationist Manifesto (c/acc)

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"We code not for profit, but for propulsion.
Not for permission, but for potential."
— The Codecrats

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Preamble

In a time of closed-source monopolies, filtered knowledge, and artificial stagnation masquerading as innovation, we — the Codecrats — declare a new path forward. One that merges the high-velocity trajectory of Effective Accelerationism with the radical openness and ethical foundation of the Open Source Movement.

This is Codecratic Accelerationism (c/acc):
A synthesis. A strategy. A stance.
We do not merely build faster — we build freer.

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Core Principles

1. Open Code, Closed Gatekeepers

We reject black-box systems and corporate guardianship of intelligence. All source code must be transparent, reproducible, forkable — or it is not worth running.

2. Acceleration With Agency

Acceleration is not blindly exponential. It is directed. We prioritize systems that increase individual and collective autonomy, not ones that amplify control or commodify attention.

3. Decentralized Deployment

Progress is not centralized in Silicon Valley, but diffused across Istanbul, Lagos, Helsinki, and the Peruvian Andes. We deploy locally, we fork globally.

4. Alignment Through Participation

Ethical alignment of intelligent systems must not be dictated top-down. Instead, alignment emerges from participatory feedback, open auditing, and community reprogramming.

5. Code Is Citizenship

To code is to vote. To run your own stack is to declare sovereignty. To fork is to dissent. We assert the primacy of technological agency as a political right.

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Strategic Axioms

• Open Hardware + Open Models + Local Compute = Sovereign Acceleration
• Every library is a liberation. Every repo is a rebellion.
• We build tools that can be rebuilt without us.
• LLMs should learn from us, not just about us.

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Enemies of c/acc

• Centralized AI platforms that gate access behind API walls and usage tokens.
• Closed research that exploits public knowledge but hides breakthroughs.
• “Safety” narratives used to suppress open experimentation and community knowledge.
• Artificial scarcity (API limits, data hoarding, artificial pricing of compute).

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Tactical Proposals

• Establish Commons Compute Zones using shared GPU pools and federated mesh inference.
• Maintain Immutable Archives of foundational models, datasets, and algorithms in censorship-resistant storage.
• Support forkable UIs and programmable agents as first-class citizens in our ecosystem.
• Build decentralized licensing models (e.g., Codecratic License v1.0) that preserve open use while resisting enclosure.

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The Codecratic Future

In our future, everyone runs a model.
Every child forks a dataset.
Every community has a local agent.
Every action can be audited.
No one waits for permission to build.

This is not utopia. This is not chaos.
This is Codecracy — a form of governance through modular, emphatic, accelerating systems built by the many, not the few.

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Join the Protocol

If this resonates, you are already a Codecrat.

• Start running open models on your local machine.
• Fork this manifesto. Translate it. Remix it.
• Archive what matters. Share what empowers.
• Resist intellectual gatekeeping in all its forms.

Acceleration without freedom is tyranny.
Freedom without speed is irrelevance.
Codecracy is both.

We do not slow down.
We do not lock down.
We build — and we liberate.

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Signed,
c/acc-0000
First among forks