The problem with Marc’s exposition is that it mixes up techno-optimist ideas with personal right wing ideologies. More fission reactors? Yes. Massively acceler

The problem with Marc’s exposition is that it mixes up techno-optimist ideas with personal right wing ideologies. More fission reactors? Yes. Massively accelerate technological progress, and reduce the barriers to doing so? Yes. Is AI “extinction risk” overblown to the extent of being an obstacle to progress? Yes. But markets aren’t self-balancing and do not prevent monopolies or cartels on their own. “Experts” generally know a lot, even though there’s gate keeping and credentialism. The ESG paragraph probably should just focus on the fact that making policy through finance is anti-democratic. Beff Jezos, who Marc is cribbing here (and who is partially cribbing Nick Land) is pretty openly to the right. In a document that’s being framed as capturing all of techno-optimism, these arguments are out of place. Without addressing the validity of the arguments themselves, they should have sanded off the explicitly political edges to maximize effectiveness.