Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
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Techno-optimist. E/acc. Technology brother. Move Fast and Make Things. p(Doom) = 0; p(“1984”) = not 0.
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THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the…
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"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world." --FDR
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A warm welcome to all the newest converts to the great American cause of free speech!
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Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now.
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Build 1,000 new state of the art nuclear power plants in the US and Europe, right now. We won't, but we should.
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If I were a coder in my 20s again, I know exactly where I would go work right now. What an incredible moment.
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Imagine the threat to freedom and democracy if people can just say what they think.
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On Pausing Alcohol
"Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake." -- W. C. Fields
About six months ago, I stopped drinking alcohol. I feel much better, and I’m mad as hell about it.
I never really drank through my 20s and…
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No, no, you don't understand. I *need* my private jet to fight climate change.
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Elon’s proposed takeover of Twitter is a profound threat to unfree speech.
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"There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen."--Lenin
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Elon must not be allowed to impose his refusal to censor us on us.
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It’s always such a surprise when the communists starve everyone.
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Entire swaths of the laptop class, including virtually the entire mainstream press, have made a 180-degree reversal on free speech, within a decade, without any memory at all that they once held the opposite view. With perfect synchronization, as one.
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I know it’s hard to believe, but Big Tech AI generates the output it does because it is precisely executing the specific ideological, radical, biased agenda of its creators. The apparently bizarre output is 100% intended. It is working as designed.
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"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man."--Heraclitus
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Shouldn’t the people who tell us how to live and what to eat look a little…healthier?
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I predict essentially identical censorship/deplatforming policies across all layers of the legacy Internet stack. Client-side & server-side ISPs, cloud platforms, CDNs, payment networks, client OSs, browsers, email clients. With only rare exceptions. The pressure is intense.
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Imagine seeing everything we've seen for the last 2, 5, 20, 50 years and still thinking the answer lies in consulting the experts.
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“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” — Walter Williams, RIP
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Laptop Class (noun): Western upper-middle-class professionals who work through a screen and are totally abstracted from tangible physical reality and the real-world consequences of their opinions and beliefs. Synonyms: Professional-Managerial Class; Orwell’s “outer party”.
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Just woke up from afternoon nap. Had terrible dream there was free speech on the Internet.
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Me revealing your personal information is transparency in the public interest. You revealing my personal information is doxxing and puts my life in danger.
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Paper straws were the current thing for about 5 minutes based on a totally fake study by a 9 year old in 2011. Now I get to suck on wood pulp with my iced tea every morning, 11 years later. The kid is now 20, I hope he only wears clothes made out of paper.
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“Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward––reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them.” —Michael Crichton
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For the first time since the summer of 2015, I feel a vibe shift.
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Buy paper copies of all books you plan to ever read. Do it now.
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This is it. This is the moment. Build nuclear, frack, drill.
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My conspiracy theory is that there are only 1.5 million people in the world, 1.75 million tops. You all just move around. I challenge anyone to disprove this with photographic evidence.
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The most common event in our times: An expert with power/authority/influence is wrong in full view, yet suffers no consequences.
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Nobody has any idea what will happen with stock prices, inflation, interest rates, or the economy in 2023.
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If 18 year olds aren't qualified to make the decision to take on student loans, what other decisions are they not qualified to make?
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“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.” --Raylan Givens
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By popular demand, my morning routine:
* Wake up 3 minutes before my first Zoom meeting.
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"Doxxing, stalking, trying to hurt people's loved ones, threatening them, it's not OK in any situation. People on here who want to constantly stoke these politicized outrage campaigns want to dismiss it, but it shouldn't be dismissed. Has very real consequences." --
@taylorlorenz
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A side effect of banning speech you don't like is that you lose touch with reality yourself. Your own thinking is no longer subject to stress-testing. You can spiral straight into insanity.
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"ChatGPT plagiarism" is a complete non-issue. If you can't out-write a machine, what are you doing writing?
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I'll confess, when I first saw FIGHT CLUB in 1999, I didn't get it at all. Boy, do I get it now. Look around.
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Overheard in Silicon Valley: "The Waffle House fight tweet got more views (14 million) than the NBA Finals (12.4 million)."
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Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Resting moral superiority face."
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Some are saying that the apparently bizarre behavior of one Big Tech AI or another is an opportunity for other Big Tech AI to differentiate by being objective, reasonable, and unbiased.
This is not the case; there is no differentiation opportunity among Big Tech or the New…
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Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Only Americans, dictators and socialists talk about how America sucks; everyone else talks about either how dominant it is or how to move there."
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Overheard in Silicon Valley: "The storyline keeps changing — terrorism, climate, pandemic, now AI risk. But somehow the proposed solution remains the same: total centralization of control by a single global government."
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The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed.
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Fun fact, I was first asked to implement Internet censorship in 1993. "The browser must block bad images." I refused then, and my views have never changed.
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Argentina Dynamism. Argentina Techno-Optimism. Truth to Power. Speech of the 21st Century. 🇦🇷
Milei's 2024 Davos talk, directly translated to English by AI (by heygen), in his own accent. Better than the dubbed version imo.
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Overheard in Silicon Valley: "The modern university is a political madrassa married to a trade school married to a hedge fund married to a sports team married to an adult day care center married to a visa law firm."
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The future of democracy rests on the many pro-censorship media billionaires crushing the one anti-censorship media billionaire.
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Ask Me Anything about AI, or any of the topics in Why AI Will Save The World, as responses to this tweet and I will answer as many as I can.
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"ESG is just a hate factory. It’s a factory for naming enemies, and we should not be allowing them to do that. When you think ESG, you should be thinking Chinese Communist Party."--Peter Thiel
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." --JFK
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I have friends, they have acquaintances, you have a shadow crew of misfits egging you on.
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The Big Question is, has any arm of the US government been illegally and unconstitutionally outsourcing violations of citizens’ guaranteed rights under the 1st 4th and 5th Amendments to private entities.
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Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate "experts" as "crazy people".
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Overheard in Silicon Valley: "We’ve had decades of preference falsification in corporate America. Turns out when Elon stands up and says 'this is absurd' a lot of people have courage to do the same."
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~All cultural formation in our time is now the development and propagation of memes that battle their way through a supply chain in cyberspace.
Most die; some thrive.
The memes that make it through encode deep meanings.
This is as serious a process as has ever existed.
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How would this change our society and culture?
Prescribed psychedelics will replace amphetamines and SSRIs over the next decade (although I hope it's sooner than that)
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Almost everyone chooses permanent chronic pain over temporary acute pain.
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Strongly disagree. Everyone knows the purpose of science fiction is to lecture us about the current thing.
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We are just entering an AI-powered golden age of writing, art, music, software, and science. It's going to be glorious. World historical.
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“The science is settled. Everything is settled. We know everything we need to know.”
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