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How is that a strawman?

Do you seriously think that Andreesen would advocate for technological progress regardless of an arbitrarily high cost to human welfare?

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

Yes? I think that's pretty clearly what he's advocating in his manifesto that we're discussing.

> 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!

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