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Marc Andreesen’s techno-optimist manifesto… (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by fasterandworse@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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I don’t really have much to say… it kind of speaks for itself. I do appreciate the table of contents so you don’t get lost in the short paragraphs though

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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

this is a really handy link to have for the next time someone calls my socialist writings unhinged

also, A8n H6z writes long form posts like someone who used to get yelled at for not having enough paragraph breaks and has since massively overcompensated. usually shit writing is unreadable because the paragraphs are too long — ^A.*z$ innovated by making tiny paragraphs my eyes refuse to stay focused on long enough for me to absorb anything

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

looking at the content briefly, that modelling seems to be intentional. they probably sell it as "different to make impact", but just like a fence the barbs are the point of it I suspect

the obtuseness trick of the cults, to make you work for it and then shortcircuit your valuation of work (so that you feel the effort you put in on this must have been worth it (and then hopefully associate the worth to the contents))

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

reading your comment made me wonder whether it (the manifesto) got put through chatgpt