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Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by ethanbond on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:26PM (#37935629)
Kagi results are biased? I mean... I guess.

You got it pal, hope all those people are feeling rah-rah!

Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by gojomo on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:00PM (#37945428)
No search engine's results will be an accurate census of reader reactions.

Such results will especially undersample Andreesen's intended audience of potential builders, which isn't the snarky cliquish media scene to which you've apprently outsourced your sensibilities.

And again: to repeatedly appeal to "most people agree with me (as far as I can see, according to my idiosyncratic media diet)" isn't the win you seem to think it is. It's more a confession that you're not bringing much of your own reasoning/logic/experience to a discussion, and defer to (often-faked) social proof for validation. If I cared what Kagi's crawl/ranking thinks, I'd search Kagi. (I don't.)

Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by ethanbond on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:49AM (#37966772)
Very interesting how the goal here needn’t be to build a broad coalition or broad consensus in order to shape the future.

It’s almost as if technologists believe they can (and actually have a moral imperative to!) shape the world without being elected and without being accountable to the people whose world they’re shaping…