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Marc Andreesen’s techno-optimist manifesto…
(web.archive.org)
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
I’ve said it before (in my bio) and I’ll say it again: Only Bayes Can Judge Me
But why is it always Bayes?
Like is it just an excuse to turn off critical thinking by pretending everything's a probability problem with knowable probabilities?
... sorry for the uncertainty above, that was certainly (heh) very human of me. I just updated my priors beep boop. There is a .86748 probability that this is a significant contributing factor alongside Yud swooning.
They use Bayes to launder their feels.
I think you’ve got it right. It’s a convenient tool for rationalising ideas that they don’t want to sound irrational, without having to do the requisite critical thinking.