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_doctor_love 4 hours ago [-]
Poor Marc, such a victim of his own success. I’ve seen him speak live, and it was clear from listening to him that he was very out of touch with reality. He was insightful on technology, and he definitely had a good understanding of business, but I had a feeling this was somebody who did great things long ago and has been coasting on their reputation and their money ever since. I wonder if in his personal life anyone ever tells him he's wrong or pushes back on him.
SilverElfin 1 hours ago [-]
The problem is once you have enough “moats” of capital and connections and all that, you get to keep on holding power and directing power. You get to make the next generation of startups. It’s a flaw in our system that these people get to steer society the way they do.
toomuchtodo 3 hours ago [-]
Sometimes we trust the wrong people, sometimes we love the wrong people, sometimes the wrong people luck into incredible wealth and downstream power from said wealth. Most of life is luck. It is a gift when someone shows us who they are, removing any doubt or ambiguity.
turzmo 57 minutes ago [-]
Investors are rarely boycotted, deposed, or otherwise held accountable for their actions. It is advantageous to adopt whatever philosophical position absolves them of any guilt or responsibility since there is no benefit to having morals, or even signaling them. Of course he thinks this.
I also disagree with the other poster, the manifesto he wrote is remarkably repetitive and not insightful at all.
How much money would you need to stand to gain in exchange for your brain being atrophied this much? I don’t think there’s any amount where it makes sense…
Interesting how a person who wrote something as thoughtful as The Techno-Optimist Manifesto could hold views like these at the same time. Whether you agree with the manifesto or not, Andreessen has achieved a rare level of insight that can only come through serious introspection about society, and then he denies the existence of introspection outright.
I guess the level of open-mindedness needed to become a successful tech entrepreneur also enabled that same cohort to consider extremely counter-intuitive ideas - the ones that would have been immediately dismissed by most.
golly_ned 15 minutes ago [-]
Much simpler. Those in power, in every place and in every time, adopt self-serving beliefs that justify their place as the ones in power and flatter themselves. No different in any day or any time. Same quasi-messianic ideals as ever. Their beliefs don’t have to pay rent or correspond with reality.
jackvalentine 5 hours ago [-]
Interesting thing to tell people - this means any change of heart or apology from Marc should be viewed purely through a cold realist self interest lens and not be afforded any of the trappings of humanity.
Don’t anthropomorphise the lawnmower indeed.
titanomachy 4 hours ago [-]
I think when Andreessen said “long-term memory is mostly fake” he probably meant that we fabricate a lot of our memories, not that it’s impossible for a human to ever remember something. The author could keep in mind the principle of charity.
I wonder if this lack of interiority is a common trait amongst the most economically successful. I wouldn’t be surprised. The less introspection I do the more I end up optimizing for wealth, it’s pretty much the default in our society unless you consciously pick something else.
nacozarina 3 hours ago [-]
forrest gump with better luck
Marciplan 2 hours ago [-]
This thing where [person good in one thing] thinks they are great in [all the things] is so, so stupid. And the blame is to it's inner circle who are just yes-folks saying yeah to all the things. Sure you don't introspect! Definitely not in the interviews where your think back on your Netscape times and what you could have done better! There are plenty of episodes on that! Sure introspection is a new thing! Definitely Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or Epictetus mentioned anything of the sorts!
Andreessen is literally brainrot.
ballstein 4 hours ago [-]
From the crew that ruined tech investing with VC bubbles, commandeered innovation to make a surveillance state, sold out the middle class to H1B and DEI, politicized tech media, then laid everyone off.
I also disagree with the other poster, the manifesto he wrote is remarkably repetitive and not insightful at all.
How much money would you need to stand to gain in exchange for your brain being atrophied this much? I don’t think there’s any amount where it makes sense…
I guess the level of open-mindedness needed to become a successful tech entrepreneur also enabled that same cohort to consider extremely counter-intuitive ideas - the ones that would have been immediately dismissed by most.
Don’t anthropomorphise the lawnmower indeed.
I wonder if this lack of interiority is a common trait amongst the most economically successful. I wouldn’t be surprised. The less introspection I do the more I end up optimizing for wealth, it’s pretty much the default in our society unless you consciously pick something else.
Andreessen is literally brainrot.
I don’t think I like that guy