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Trump, at this point in his life, I think is highly aware of that, at least in my interactions with him.
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I think that was the thread in the sweater that started to unravel it.
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Ultimately, we need prosecutions.
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He said it about something that was true.
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Under the US Criminal Code, it is illegal for government employees, or private entities in a conspiracy, to take away constitutional rights.
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Marc Andreessen said he politely declined to design the 'breast detection algorithm' he had imagined he would have to build.
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Andreessen Horowitz was the founding investor in Substack.
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Nietzsche declared that God is dead.
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it’s just I think, clearly much healthier to live in a society in which people are not literally scared of what they’re saying.
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Now, will that happen here? I don’t know.
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there’s just a giant vibe shift, mood shift that’s kicked in already.
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Marc Andreessen is not a member of the new Trump administration.
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Companies operate under the exact same set of questions.
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It’s not a law, it’s not even a regulation, it’s just straight direct state power.
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Marc Andreessen is not involved in any aspect of government policy on H-1B visas and legal immigration.
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But the problem with misinformation is like, is it the truth or not?
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What everybody in Washington says is that $30 billion is a rounding error on the federal budget, it doesn’t matter.
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And I think maybe the most high status people are the most prone to just go along because they’re the most focused on status.
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DOGE is not a formal government agency.
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Canada, the UK and Germany have stopped growing economically, and some may be shrinking.
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There's no logic chain there at all.
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The Clinton-Gore and Reagan administrations each had a government-efficiency program.
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Christianity later inverted that moral framework.
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it is amazing how much somebody like that can exert pressure on situations even when they don’t have formal control.
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he’s running services that are bigger than any country.
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So yeah, I would say all of our problems, I think are basically, in my view, to some extent, attempts to basically sand all that off and…
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I know what an aberration I am and I know exactly how that aberration happened, and it’s a very unusual set of steps, including many that…
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The Biden administration decided it did not want US energy independence and wanted to turn off American energy.
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I hope that they succeed and I'm cheering for them
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People don’t laugh at made-up bullshit stories.
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When we talk about government power these days, mostly it’s not legislation.
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Steve Feinberg, a private equity figure, is the number two official at the Pentagon.
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And then basically in any sort of authoritarian system, you can’t run a survey to get an accurate result.
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What you 100% cannot withstand is the internal crack.
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And then the combination of encryption and disappearing messages I think really unleashed it.
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Yeah. Well, this is sort of the siren song of censorship is we can keep people from saying things, which means we can keep people from…
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anything that challenges the status quo, any heretical ideas and any new idea is a heretical idea
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But the defense of activist investing, which I think is valid, is these are the guys who basically go in and take stakes in companies that…
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And the journalists at the LA Times hate him with the fury of a thousand suns.
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that’s essentially the Facebook version of the Twitter files just arrived at with a different mechanism.
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It’s tagging newborn infants with either benefits or responsibilities or levels of condemnation based on who their ancestors were.
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So these things basically are being ripped down one by one.
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Any CEO who thinks that they’re bigger than their government, has that notion beaten out of them in short order.
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Marc Andreessen has made the argument in favour of high-skilled immigration and H-1B visas many times.
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I think what you saw are legitimate, deeply held beliefs, not some sort of just-in-the-moment thing that could change at any time.
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Marc Andreessen joined the Facebook board in 2007.
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And the Biden administration reached the full pinnacle of that in our time.
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The low point in the 70s was Jimmy Carter
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The laughter is the clue that you’re onto something truthful.
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So my rough guess, just based on what I’ve seen in my world, is it’s something like 20, 60, 20.
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And the New York Times is still the New York Times, and Harvard is still Harvard, and those people haven’t changed, like at all.
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Marc Andreessen received the first request to implement censorship on the internet, which concerned the web browser.
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pound for pound this maybe the best team in the White House since, I don’t even know, maybe the 90s, maybe the 30s, maybe the 50s.
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But when it unwinds, it can unwind with incredible speed and ferocity.
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basically get the government off of people’s backs and liberate the American people to be able to do things again.
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The ancient Greeks and the Florentines had brief experiments in direct democracy that ended in disaster.
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we ended up both then and now with this, what I describe as sort of a form of soft authoritarianism.
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If the debt problem is not fixed, the US will at some point enter a hyperinflationary spiral and become like Argentina or Brazil.
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This is the ultimate indictment of the corruption and the rot at the heart of our education system, at the heart of these universities.
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The business owner Andreessen was discussing has removed people and set new rules.
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They are not fixable in their current form.
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We have actually worked our way all the way back to their cult religions without realizing it.
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I’m not claiming any huge foresight or heroism on any of this.
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And that 60% is pivoting in real time.
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I think if I had been in his job for the last decade, I would be a little puddle on the floor.
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We are not victims, we are conquerors.
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This demoralization campaign is based on bad ideas of the past – zombie ideas, many derived from Communism, disastrous then and now – that…
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Markets are by far the most effective way to lift vast numbers of people out of poverty, and always have been.
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We are adherents to what Thomas Sowell calls the Constrained Vision.
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Technologically weak liberal democracies lose to their autocratic rivals, making everyone worse off.
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We believe in the words of David Deutsch:
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We believe these captured people are suffering from ressentiment – a witches’ brew of resentment, bitterness, and rage that is causing them…
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We believe extrinsic motivations – wealth, fame, revenge – are fine as far as they go.
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We believe that advancing technology is one of the most virtuous things that we can do.
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A technologically strong America is a force for good in a dangerous world.
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Material abundance from markets and technology opens the space for religion, for politics, and for choices of how to live, socially and…
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We believe in competition, because we believe in evolution.
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Techno-Optimism is a material philosophy, not a political philosophy.
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We believe the market economy is a discovery machine, a form of intelligence – an exploratory, evolutionary, adaptive system.
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We believe technology makes greatness more possible and more likely.
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We believe national strength of liberal democracies flows from economic strength (financial power), cultural strength (soft power), and…
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It is deeply immoral, and we must jettison it with extreme prejudice.
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Technology is the only perpetual source of economic growth, since natural resource utilization has limits.
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We believe technology is the solution to environmental degradation and crisis.
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We believe rich is better than poor, cheap is better than expensive, and abundant is better than scarce.
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We believe everything good is downstream of growth.
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We believe that we are, have been, and will always be the masters of technology, not mastered by technology.
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I am here to bring the good news.
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Our enemy is speech control and thought control – the increasing use, in plain sight, of George Orwell’s “1984” as an instruction manual.
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We believe in what the Greeks called eudaimonia through arete – flourishing through excellence.
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The Precautionary Principle was invented to prevent the large-scale deployment of civilian nuclear power.
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Technology is the ultimate open society.
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We believe markets are an inherently individualistic way to achieve superior collective outcomes.
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We believe in accelerationism – the conscious and deliberate propulsion of technological development – to ensure the fulfillment of the Law…
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The only three sources of economic growth are population growth, natural resource utilization, and technology.
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We believe Artificial Intelligence can save lives – if we let it.
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Any deceleration of AI development will cost lives.
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Techno-Optimists believe that societies, like sharks, grow or die.
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We believe technology is universalist.
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We will explain to people captured by these zombie ideas that their fears are unwarranted and the future is bright.
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