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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.

Any thoughts on the Nick Land / techno-capital machine part?

Blockchain Radical: How capitalism ruined crypto and how to fix it

https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals

Definitely one of the parts I agree with less. It feels indefinite-optimist in a way I would have agreed more with 10 years ago but less so now.

Also the "love doesn't scale, coercive force is too evil, therefore let's just do money" bit doesn't feel imaginative enough.