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and it's pretty obvious that whoever was said that quote was going for shock/cleverness and sacrificed truth and understanding It's not obvious from the quote,

and it's pretty obvious that whoever was said that quote was going for shock/cleverness and sacrificed truth and understanding It's not obvious from the quote, which just states something that is obviously true, and doesn't attempt to explain it. But ... Andreessen has elsewhere claimed it's due to regulation: https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-wont-cause-unemployment https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-wont-cause-unemployment But ... more recently his firm has explained they know what Baumol's cost disease is: https://a16z.com/why-ac-is-cheap-but-ac-repair-is-a-luxury/ https://a16z.com/why-ac-is-cheap-but-ac-repair-is-a-luxury/

palmotea 10mo ago
Is Andreessen the source of the OP's quote? He does have his head up his ass, so I wouldn't be surprised [1]. However, he doesn't really say anything close enough in either of the articles you linked. [1] FFS, he really implies day care is expensive because regulation is preventing "technology [from] whipping through" the sector like it has in TV manufacturing. I don't want to live in his nightmare fantasy. But in the spirit of deregulation and techno-utopianism, here's an idea to use technology to slash day care prices that's held back by evil government regulation: lock kids in padded rooms while their parents work. Maybe stick a TV on the wall playing Cocomelon. It requires no labor for supervision, and the kids can't get hurt because the room is padded. That's a "technological innovation" that will "push down prices while increasing quality," for certain definitions of "quality."
- rahimnathwani 10mo ago
  However, he doesn't really say anything close enough in either of the articles you linked. Check the first paragraph of the first article. It says 'Source: Marc Andreessen' and links to a YouTube video where they discuss it.
  - palmotea 10mo ago
    I don't know how I missed that. Thanks.

palmotea 10mo ago

Is Andreessen the source of the OP's quote? He does have his head up his ass, so I wouldn't be surprised [1]. However, he doesn't really say anything close enough in either of the articles you linked. [1] FFS, he really implies day care is expensive because regulation is preventing "technology [from] whipping through" the sector like it has in TV manufacturing. I don't want to live in his nightmare fantasy. But in the spirit of deregulation and techno-utopianism, here's an idea to use technology to slash day care prices that's held back by evil government regulation: lock kids in padded rooms while their parents work. Maybe stick a TV on the wall playing Cocomelon. It requires no labor for supervision, and the kids can't get hurt because the room is padded. That's a "technological innovation" that will "push down prices while increasing quality," for certain definitions of "quality."

rahimnathwani 10mo ago
However, he doesn't really say anything close enough in either of the articles you linked. Check the first paragraph of the first article. It says 'Source: Marc Andreessen' and links to a YouTube video where they discuss it.
- palmotea 10mo ago
  I don't know how I missed that. Thanks.