The Techno-Optimist Manifesto By Marc Andreesson

  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    10 months ago

    As mentioned previous time: Seems techno optimism is lagging a bit. Marc The TechnoOptimist in 2020: “it is time to build!” 2023: “It is time to be optimistic!”, anyway, his “Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism” list is more funny now after it came out that the first twitter account on that list lied about having sex with people.

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      10 months ago

      Ooh, thanks! This community came up in my feed recently, so I haven’t yet had the chance to browse all that awful.systems has to offer. I’ll check out TechTakes and see what else I can subscribe to!

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        10 months ago

        absolutely! there’s quite a bit of overlap between SneerClub and TechTakes, but SneerClub tends to focus on sneering at Eliezer Yudkowsky, the rationalist philosophy (or cult, depending on how charitable one feels), and the LessWrong community and its offshoots. TechTakes sneers at tech in general, and is a bit more accessible I think

        all that said, I don’t mind revisiting the topic here because Andreessen Horowitz can still absolutely go fuck himself

        e: in spite of spending like 2 whole minutes on it I still somehow misspelled ^A.*n H.*z$’s name