Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
by woodruffw on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:12PM
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This was deeply depressing to read, and indicates that the trend of disengagement between VCs (and SV tech culture, more generally) and our larger society is continuing apace.
Rather than doing anything else, a man worth approximately $1.8B[1] is posting screeds wherein he churlishly tells the rest of us to read Internet-poisoned reactionaries. No sane culture would be optimistic about any system or scheme that produces such results; we do much better to run screaming in the exact opposite direction.
Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
by Def_Os on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:13PM
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Hear, hear. I was especially appalled by seeing aforementioned reactionaries listed alongside thinkers that likely would've pulled this manifested to shreds (e.g. Bertrand Russell).
Rather than doing anything else, a man worth approximately $1.8B[1] is posting screeds wherein he churlishly tells the rest of us to read Internet-poisoned reactionaries. No sane culture would be optimistic about any system or scheme that produces such results; we do much better to run screaming in the exact opposite direction.
[1]: https://www.forbes.com/profile/marc-andreessen/