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Todd Walker (toddwalker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 21:14:04 JST Todd Walker

The fascist mask of Marc Andreesen and his ilk is off: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
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  The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz
  
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  We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.
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  Todd Walker (toddwalker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 21:14:03 JST Todd Walker
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  @chrisrauh 🤣 feels like something I woulda churned out in 9th grade
  
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  AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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  Chris Rauh (chrisrauh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 21:14:03 JST Chris Rauh
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  @ToddWalker Quite the wrap up on this post. There seems to be consensus. https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html
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    It would take a far, far longer post than I’m prepared to spend my time writing to go through Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” paragraph by awful paragraph, but a few points probably won’t go amiss. If you’re going to approvingly paraphrase “a manifesto of a different time and place”, you might want to check that said manifesto’s author wasn’t an early member of Mussolini’s fascist party. Writing “we believe technology is universalist.
  2. This is the manifesto of an emotionally insecure man having a mid-life crisis as he realises that his life’s work is meaningless and all the gold and treasure he has accumulated will never make him happy. Mid-life crises in men are often surprisingly redolent of the emotional outpouring of pseudo-intellectual silliness that accompany late teenage, that first period of life when boys start to realise they are not the centre of the world and lash out at the injustice of it all. Perhaps, then it’s no surprise this reads like it was written by a 14 year old and put on Pastebin. That it was written by a 52 year old with billions of dollars at his disposal says more about the failure of capitalism to imbue life with meaning than Andreessen could possibly imagine.
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  Todd Walker (toddwalker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 21:14:04 JST Todd Walker
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  Until today there was the tiniest smidge of plausible deniability. But, he and the Silicon Valley oligarchy are done hiding their intentions.
  
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  @ToddWalker That’s a lot of old ideas for an “innovator”. A predictable rehash of the Californian ideology less the good parts. At least he actually quoted Nietzsche after the high school report. The struggling (male) teenager reading list is a nice touch. I did miss a “trust me” as the ending.
  
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