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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/

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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.

It think there's a mismatch between what has been stamped as "degrowth" by SV types so that they can rail against it and as climate scientists like Julia Steinberger use it.

I do not see what's wrong with taking a step back and asking ourselves, as human race, what we're doing wrong and how it is affecting our future.

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Yea it’s starting to be used as an insult against anyone questioning if market competition always produces optimal outcomes. Very us vs them mentality.