Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
@pmarca
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Permissionless innovation is the key to America keeping its competitive edge. Thank you @DavidSacks and @realDonaldTrump
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The President is right. A 50-state patchwork is a startup killer. Federal AI legislation is essential. There’s no bigger issue for Little Tech — the builders who create the future, for America.
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Self-recommending!
Wolfgang Hammer helps founders and CEOs, at both startups and massive fortune 100 companies, use storytelling to better understand what they do, and why it matters. In many ways, this conversation is a manual for how to find that story and communicate it in a way that resonates.
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Building a great city is hard. In California, it's crazy. For people who care about building things in America, that's what makes California Forever so inspiring. The new story by @juliasteinberg is a one-of-a-kind profile of a one-of-a-kind project. California's City on a
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software revenue as a % of GDP, with and without social media and cloud
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"Elon Musk is not an engineer." John Carmack: Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at SpaceX and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so. Robert Zubrin: When I met Elon it was apparent to
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If judged based on consumer adoption, AI chatbots are the most popular technology ever. If judged based on poll numbers, they are the least popular. How to explain this? A big part of it is the Doomer Industrial Complex — hundreds of astroturfed organizations that have spread
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We need to make more electrons.
Why is my feed for the past two days full of people debating whether “matrix multiplication is two dimensional” and whether we “need to make more electrons”. What’s happening.
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Now they’ve gone too far.
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It's over, folks. Pack it in.
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” @JohnCassidy writes.
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I’ve never met or read anyone I agree with on everything in my entire life.
Even my favorite thinkers are often retarded on at least one topic. So when I see someone who’s completely irrational in one area, I don’t discount their expertise elsewhere or their broader contributions to the discourse.
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Everybody got one.
2000 years old and still works fine. meanwhile you have to replace yours every 6 years at home depot. what went wrong with american manufacturing?
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The key media technology fueling the slaughter and mayhem of the Spanish Civil War was... printed posters.
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This graph almost certainly understates the savagery and bloodshed of the past.
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Are we sure smartphones, social media, and AI aren't calming us down?
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