[chaps]

How is that a strawman?

[yanderekko]

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

[chaps]

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

[plorkyeran]

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

[Supermancho]

> 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!