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Andreessen Horowitz and the uwuness of little technofascism (a16z.com)

submitted 5 months ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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so Andreessen Horowitz posted another manifesto just over a week ago and it’s the most banal fash shit you can imagine:

Regulatory agencies have been green lit to use brute force investigations, prosecutions, intimidation, and threats to hobble new industries, such as Blockchain.

Regulatory agencies are being green lit in real time to do the same to Artificial Intelligence.

does this shit ever get deeper than Regulation Bad? fuck no it doesn’t. is this Horowitz’s attempt to capitalize on the Supreme Court’s judiciary coup? you fucking bet.

here’s some more banal shit:

We find there are three kinds of politicians:

Those who support Little Tech. We support them.

Those who oppose Little Tech. We oppose them.

Those who are somewhere in the middle – they want to be supportive, but they have concerns. We work with them in good faith.

I find there are three kinds of politicians:

those who want hamburger. I give them hamburger.
those who abstain from hamburger. I do not give them hamburger.
those who have questions about hamburger. I refer them to the shift supervisor in good faith.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Another manifesto? Considering the high percentage of people who first write a manifesto and then do a terrorism/shooting I'm now scared.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

considering that his previous manifesto was titled "It's Time To Build" and he did not, in fact, built anything, makes me think that the only thing he can fill a pipe bomb with is hot air

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They are VC's they would never dirty their hands building something themselves. They would invest into an enterprising startup (making pipebombs with a LLM) they inspired.

The only people really at risk is the people who end up holding the bags.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does it have to be LLMs? Maybe he will fund my startup "Bombr," which is gig economy for terrorism. Okay, I'll have LLMs write the screeds and there will be a blockchain somehow.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

file that under "venmo for isis" or maybe "tinder for hitmen"

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, tindr for hitmen would obviously be murdr.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

won't that be grindr for hitmen

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

iMurdr, murdr is the app for police. Weird overlap in features though.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

Look, the spec just said that you should be able to use the app to get a man with a gun to show up and make someone dead, it did not specify what he should be wearing at the time.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

A gig economy startup? In 2024? Oof those went out of style 10 internet years ago. The VC's have not funded any of those since they learned of AI in late 2023.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago

Pipe-bomb-as-a-service (PBaaS)