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Techno-optimism manifesto written by a multi-billionaire founder of a venture capital. It doesn't get more dystopian than this. Where have the hackers gone?
Yeah, this being written by Andreesen is a non-starter for me. I have no interest in what he has to say at this point - hard pass.
I'm really a bit shocked this was flagged. A blog post (marketed as a manifesto no less!) from the founder of Netscape and one of the biggest VCs in the business about the future of technology. I understand its potential for flame wars, but how could this not be on-topic for HN?
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1. There is no cabal of moderators waiting to censor posts. This is not Reddit. There is pretty much just dang as the primary admin.
2. Posts are just flagged by other users who feel it is off-topic, or not likely to lead to productive discussion.
I'm guessing that users who flagged this thought it was "not likely to lead to productive discussion". While I may not agree with that point of view, I certainly don't think it is some sort of "censorship".
More like a Techno-Capitalist Fantasy. This part had me laughing out loud: > Markets prevent monopolies and cartels. No, markets naturally culminate into monopolies and cartels. That's just human nature. History has shown over and over again that monopolies and cartels are naturally occurring and that the only successful way to deal with them is to break them up via government intervention. Sure, some monopolies may…
Agreed. Not acknowledging regulation's role in enabling a sustainable free market economy is navel gazing.
Gosh this is weird. So many of the points here seem really good and important, yet many of the other points here are so distorted as to be almost unrecognizable. It reads to me like bad religion. E.g. he knows about the Aral sea and yet argues against the "Precautionary Principle"!? (It seems strange to me to mention the Aral sea as an example of Soviet ecological incompetence, which it surely is, but then fail to me…
i have some spiritual practice suggestions: 1. maintain and improve your emacs&nixos configurations, 2. create a personal database and add new capabilities to it (for example you could start by making a database to track github stars that could for instance store hashes of specific commits) 3. with your newfound data model and programmable/configurable environment, slowly integrate AI into your life
> Markets prevent monopolies and cartels. A lot of the optimism seems to rely on this statement and...I'm not convinced? But I also admit I'm not well informed on the topic. Does anyone have suggested reading on 'market discipline', as they're calling it? I mean, the first person on their "Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism" is Jeff Bezos, who is actively dealing with an antitrust lawsuit from the FTC regarding Amazon'…
No, it's an anonymous Twitter account, you read the name wrong, "Beff Jezos" (sic), not "Jeff Bezos".
Also if you look at the purest form of markets, which is probably high frequency trading, there are no monopolies and no cartels. It's an intensely competitive industry with relatively small profits given their transaction volume.
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Yeah, this being written by Andreesen is a non-starter for me. I have no interest in what he has to say at this point - hard pass.
C'mon. We dont hate people we hate bad ideas. He's not wrong about that.
Judging from the bulk of the comments in here, it doesn't look like I'm wrong.
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WTF is e/acc for people that don't live on Twitter?
Effective Altruism is a charity / social club / networking opportunity for young STEM types based on pretty extreme beliefs about Utilitarianism and recently AI. The most famous EA right now is probably SBF. Accelerationism is the belief that we should race towards catastrophe so that we can rebuild society in a better way. E / Acc is a (sometimes ironic) amalgam of the two. You won't be surprised to learn that not m…
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i have some spiritual practice suggestions: 1. maintain and improve your emacs&nixos configurations, 2. create a personal database and add new capabilities to it (for example you could start by making a database to track github stars that could for instance store hashes of specific commits) 3. with your newfound data model and programmable/configurable environment, slowly integrate AI into your life
I think you may have replied to the wrong thread? Your comment is non sequitur .
Keep in mind that they changed the header in this, so thankfully Erin Kissane shared the original header for the record: https://mas.to/@kissane/111245487051384089 Talk about a falling off the rails type of piece, this is it.