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Marc Andreesen’s techno-optimist manifesto… (web.archive.org)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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I don’t really have much to say… it kind of speaks for itself. I do appreciate the table of contents so you don’t get lost in the short paragraphs though

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

"We are told that technology is helping redistribute wealth from the common people to a small subset of extremely rich men. But, as an extremely rich man, I don't really understand why this is a bad thing? Technology seems pretty cool to me!"

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    We are materially focused, for a reason – to open the aperture on how we may choose to live amid material abundance. ... Material abundance from markets and technology opens the space for religion, for politics, and for choices of how to live, socially and individually.

    Ah yes, material abundance like living in America's most expensive ZIP code, a neighborhood with an average home price of $8mm and saying this about affordable housing:

    "Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July," Andreessen and his wife, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, said via an email to the mayor and city council. "They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic."

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    laura AA once came to speak to a class I was taking. she spent the entire time complaining that when you're the daughter of a billionaire and the spouse of another, people don't take you seriously, because they think you have it easy

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I mean, of course he loves unfettered technology and capitalism. He's a fucking billionaire. He hit the demographic lottery.

    EDIT: I just noticed his list of "techno-optimist" patrons. On the list? John Galt. LMAO. The whole list is pretty much an orgy of libertarians.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    I figured out this manifesto exists because somebody from the EFF posted: "Nothing depresses me like the knowledge that I am going to have to spend some of my precious workday reading a manifesto." So expect a lot of sanity damage.

    (Read the opening, yep, got 1d8 from that already. I'm raising the 'the invention of letters was a mistake' flag).

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    @Soyweiser Has he been huffing Marinetti's exhaust fumes again?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    yep, it's in there

    To paraphrase a manifesto of a different time and place: “Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Technology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.”

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