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What did you think of Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto? How you would frame crypto's relationship an optimistic, accelerationist outlook?

What did you think of Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto? How you would frame crypto's relationship an optimistic, accelerationist outlook?

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

CTO @a16zcrypto, lover of https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

eg. I think brain computer interfaces are great and will be super important, but they are also risky: we're literally talking about reading + writing to our minds. To me it seems crucial that that stuff is as open-source as possible, favors local compute over phoning home... What is a16z doing to achieve that outcome?

closely related: this great counterargument to @pmarca 's last essay (It's Time to Build)

the idea that indefinite optimism isn't enough

closely related: this great counterargument to @pmarca 's last essay (It's Time to Build)

the idea that indefinite optimism isn't enough

https://www.palladiummag.com/2020/04/30/its-time-to-build-for-good/

There's a lot I agree with - namely, that degrowth is bad, a lot of stagnationism that masks itself as caution and humility is actually a very anti-human force that needs to be directly opposed, but I also think there's a lot that it misses; namely, that the direction and order in which tech gets developed matters.