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How is that a strawman?

• Supermancho 3y ago
  > a broader movement that seeks to take all the guardrails off of technological development and push forward with “progress,” whatever the cost may be. The manifesto starts with this as a defining motif. Growth is life, no-growth is death. Homeostasis be damned!
• yanderekko 3y ago
  Do you seriously think that Andreesen would advocate for technological progress regardless of an arbitrarily high cost to human welfare?
  • chaps 3y ago
    When he's one of the biggest backers of the surveillance state and is advocating for even more of that.. yep. I do. I'll raise a strawman of my own: pretty indicative to see one of the co-authors of the Fascist Manifesto listed in Andreessen's list of "patron saints". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto
  • plorkyeran 3y ago
    Yes? I think that's pretty clearly what he's advocating in his manifesto that we're discussing.