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“This is the only time I’ve ever said this is like the internet. If you go back through all my historical statements, one could imagine that with my experience

“This is the only time I’ve ever said this is like the internet. If you go back through all my historical statements, one could imagine that with my experience I could have said this like 48 times. I’ve never made the comparison before. I’ve never said it about any other kind of technology. I never said it about anything else between the original internet and then the emergence of crypto, because I just wanted people to know like I don’t take the comparison lightly.” - Marc Andreesen on blockchain in 2022 So, yeah, Marc Andreesen says lots of things.

Kiro 3y ago
I guess you mean that he has been proven wrong before but if it was 2022 I'm sure he still stands by that statement.
confoundcofound 3y ago
He has openly professed his belief in "strong opinions, weakly held."
- steveBK123 3y ago
  wow I dislike him more already
- oh_sigh 3y ago
  Which is a horrible strategy for personal growth. The strength of your opinions should be modulated by the strength of their justifications. My opinion about the shape of the earth is and should be stronger than my opinion about the hilliness of sao tome and Principe. It also leads to situations where people with skills not associated with truth finding can be more persuasive than they should be - eg charismatic or comedic people will be able to more readily persuade you than people without those skills, even though there is nothing about those skills that leads people towards more correct opinions.
zoogeny 3y ago
It is way too soon to really have an opinion on whether or not crypto will live up to the hype. FWIW, I've been recommended a lot of videos from the recent Bloomberg Invest summit. There are tons of people from traditional finance (e.g. Goldman Sachs), Hedge Funds, Private Equity, people from the Fed, SEC, etc. The main questions they've been asking are related to inflation and interest rates but crypto comes up in almost every single conversation. Mostly crypto comes up because of the FTX fiasco and questions about regulation (also regulation related to recent bank collapses like SVB). But the constant refrain is "crypto is clearly here to stay". The prevailing narrative seems to be that the adults are going to come in and take it over. Finance works very slow, but like a glacier it also has tremendous mass and therefore power. What is absent in the conversations is the snide derision and outright dismissal I often see on HackerNews. I think we focus here on NFTs, shit coins and other token IPO scams. But the finance industry seems to accept some kind of digital currency is inevitable. There is going to be insanely big money to be made in that space.
- codq 3y ago
  Ty still makes Beanie Babies.
dist-epoch 3y ago
Never forget, Marc Andreessen explaining what Web3 is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwyp0wogOrw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwyp0wogOrw

Kiro 3y ago

I guess you mean that he has been proven wrong before but if it was 2022 I'm sure he still stands by that statement.

confoundcofound 3y ago

He has openly professed his belief in "strong opinions, weakly held."

steveBK123 3y ago
wow I dislike him more already
oh_sigh 3y ago
Which is a horrible strategy for personal growth. The strength of your opinions should be modulated by the strength of their justifications. My opinion about the shape of the earth is and should be stronger than my opinion about the hilliness of sao tome and Principe. It also leads to situations where people with skills not associated with truth finding can be more persuasive than they should be - eg charismatic or comedic people will be able to more readily persuade you than people without those skills, even though there is nothing about those skills that leads people towards more correct opinions.

zoogeny 3y ago

It is way too soon to really have an opinion on whether or not crypto will live up to the hype. FWIW, I've been recommended a lot of videos from the recent Bloomberg Invest summit. There are tons of people from traditional finance (e.g. Goldman Sachs), Hedge Funds, Private Equity, people from the Fed, SEC, etc. The main questions they've been asking are related to inflation and interest rates but crypto comes up in almost every single conversation. Mostly crypto comes up because of the FTX fiasco and questions about regulation (also regulation related to recent bank collapses like SVB). But the constant refrain is "crypto is clearly here to stay". The prevailing narrative seems to be that the adults are going to come in and take it over. Finance works very slow, but like a glacier it also has tremendous mass and therefore power. What is absent in the conversations is the snide derision and outright dismissal I often see on HackerNews. I think we focus here on NFTs, shit coins and other token IPO scams. But the finance industry seems to accept some kind of digital currency is inevitable. There is going to be insanely big money to be made in that space.

codq 3y ago
Ty still makes Beanie Babies.

dist-epoch 3y ago

Never forget, Marc Andreessen explaining what Web3 is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwyp0wogOrw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwyp0wogOrw