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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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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But why is it always Bayes?

Like is it just an excuse to turn off critical thinking by pretending everything's a probability problem with knowable probabilities?

... sorry for the uncertainty above, that was certainly (heh) very human of me. I just updated my priors beep boop. There is a .86748 probability that this is a significant contributing factor alongside Yud swooning.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

I think you’ve got it right. It’s a convenient tool for rationalising ideas that they don’t want to sound irrational, without having to do the requisite critical thinking.

[–] sue_me_please@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

They use Bayes to launder their feels.