The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
▻https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto
Marc Andreeesen. (2013) : JD Lasica / CC BY 2.0 Deed
Avec ce baratin de milliardaire techno-impérialiste le fondateur de Netscape nous fournit un condensé de tous les mensonges et fausses promesses que les USA des néolibéraux et néocons nous imposent depuis 1980.
Ce texte est une collection idéale pour aiguiser nos outils et démanteler leur idéologie crypto-fasciste et meurtrière. I love it !
Telepolis publie une courte critique du manifeste (DE).
▻https://www.telepolis.de/features/KI-und-die-Renaissance-der-Techno-Kapitalisten-9340348.html?seite=all
16.10.2023 by Marc Andreessen
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Our enemy is institutions that in their youth were vital and energetic and truth-seeking, but are now compromised and corroded and collapsing – blocking progress in increasingly desperate bids for continued relevance, frantically trying to justify their ongoing funding despite spiraling dysfunction and escalating ineptness.
Our enemy is the ivory tower, the know-it-all credentialed expert worldview, indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable – playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.
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Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle, which would have prevented virtually all progress since man first harnessed fire. The Precautionary Principle was invented to prevent the large-scale deployment of civilian nuclear power, perhaps the most catastrophic mistake in Western society in my lifetime. The Precautionary Principle continues to inflict enormous unnecessary suffering on our world today. It is deeply immoral, and we must jettison it with extreme prejudice.
Our enemy is deceleration, de-growth, depopulation – the nihilistic wish, so trendy among our elites, for fewer people, less energy, and more suffering and death.
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We will explain to people captured by these zombie ideas that their fears are unwarranted and the future is bright.
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Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism
In lieu of detailed endnotes and citations, read the work of these people, and you too will become a Techno-Optimist.
@BasedBeffJezos
@bayeslord
@PessimistsArc
Ada Lovelace
Adam Smith
Andy Warhol
Bertrand Russell
Brad DeLong
Buckminster Fuller
Calestous Juma
Clayton Christensen
Dambisa Moyo
David Deutsch
David Friedman
David Ricardo
Deirdre McCloskey
Doug Engelbart
Elting Morison
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Frederic Bastiat
Frederick Jackson Turner
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Gilder
Isabel Paterson
Israel Kirzner
James Burnham
James Carse
Joel Mokyr
Johan Norberg
John Galt
John Von Neumann
Joseph Schumpeter
Julian Simon
Kevin Kelly
Louis Rossetto
Ludwig von Mises
Marian Tupy
Martin Gurri
Matt Ridley
Milton Friedman
Neven Sesardic
Nick Land
Paul Collier
Paul Johnson
Paul Romer
Ray Kurzweil
Richard Feynman
Rose Wilder Lane
Stephen Wolfram
Stewart Brand
Thomas Sowell
Vilfredo Pareto
Virginia Postrel
William Lewis
William Nordhaus