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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto By Marc Andreesson

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[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago

there was a previous thread on TechTakes for this but I appreciate the title of this one

[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 5 points 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!

[-] self@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

also this is straight up neoreaction, so sadly on topic here

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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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