Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open Ai/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and ...
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3| theconvivialsociety.substack.com
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3| theconvivialsociety.substack.com
The uprising of 2020 didn't just challenge the systemic racism of American policing; they terrified the oligarchs of Silicon Valley. For Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist, the sight of organized resistance, both in the streets and within the cubicles of his own industry, was an existential threat. The subsequent| The Dissident
Our vision ensures that our tools, however powerful, remain servants of the permanent things that make us human.| The American Mind
Steve Messer’s website.| Harsh Browns
Blog 'We Built the Technosphere. Now We Must Resist It' Andrew Nikiforuk - In the 19th century the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess...| Local Futures
on (some of) the moral externalities in the AI economy| thetechbubble.substack.com
Here's how the 100 Best Companies to Work For are building employee trust as AI accelerates.| Great Place To Work®
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Tech billionaires are using faith to solidify their power| www.disconnect.blog
"And then a miracle happens" is not a plan.| davekarpf.substack.com
It is common knowledge that the vast majority of sociology is completely worthless, or worse than worthless, and that “social science” is an oxymoron. Still, the study of the societies of man can be a worthwhile discipline, as a branch of humanities, not the sciences. To be sure, the number of modern authors writing in| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
Millennialism, in all its forms, is the curse of the modern world. The fruits of this heresy are always rotten.| Orthodox Reflections
Three Pre-Seed Companies Making Life Better| www.digitalnative.tech
After the election, the timelines are accelerating. We need a pluralistic debate about its implications — but the left is dealing itself out.| www.natesilver.net
Venture Capital Extremism| Venture Capital Status
A strange essay reveals how Silicon Valley elites are creating an apocalyptic techno-religion to rule the future of civilization| The Nerd Reich
What Marc Andreessen revealed about the tech-industrial complex| donmoynihan.substack.com
And introducing AI Trailblazers: Charting a Responsible Course| www.savvymatters.com
AI's Potential to Transform or Traumatize in 2024| www.savvymatters.com
A group called New Founding is among the investors building an 'anti-woke' blueprint for venture capital — and billionaire Marc Andreessen is in.| Forbes
Curtis Yarvin, darling authoritarian ideologue of many tech billionaires, is back in the news, along with his deep links to J.D. Vance, via Peter Thiel. It’s no secret that plutocrats tend to be off-the-charts economic libertarians, with extreme hostility even to wildly popular programs such as Social Security and Medicare, which cost them nothing. So, if they were principled thinkers, it would seem logical for them to oppose dictators and wannabe dictators. But no, more and more tech bros ...| Crooked Timber
To be a good optimist, you must admit the worst-case-scenario is lurking.| www.bugeyedandshameless.com
Stochastic parrots, blurry JPEGs, aliens, and more.| seantrott.substack.com
A shift in attitude towards population growth has occurred the past 50 years, from believing in overpopulation to thinking Earth is underpopulated| The Overpopulation Project
Find the EV maximizer—and degenerate gambler—in yourself. Just be careful not to destroy the world.| mattglassman.substack.com
Tech companies are largely applauding the new regulation, which seeks to govern how the federal government will use AI and establish guidelines for companies building new models.| Forbes
Tech billionaires are using faith to solidify their power| Disconnect
Here's what it's about, and why you should consider buying it.| www.natesilver.net
This is not a scientific or technological project, but perhaps it is a project about science and technology. My proposal is to create a magical tool, a tarot deck, that provokes thought about how mystical and religious elements permeate the advancement of science and technology, especially in the field of biotechnology, and are in constant confluence with all aspects surrounding it: academia, startups, investors, and the like.| Platypus
Are you a pessimistic optimist or a cheerful pessimist?| bhuvan.substack.com
Part 1/2: Substack's co-founders and its acolytes proclaim their dislike for centralization, but while Substack increasingly centralizes its platform it's the non-profit, open source, bootstrapped alternative Ghost that's been building out a genuinely decentralized ecosystem| From Filmers to Farmers
The beginning of a step change in human capabilities as well as a new season of events and media coming out of ground zero San Francisco| peterleyden.substack.com
If partners at a16z want to blame someone for a rise in skepticism about tech, they should look in the mirror, says Dave Karpf.| Tech Policy Press
Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.| The Atlantic
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
I was struck by how much techno-fascist Marc Andreessen 's manifesto sounds like it was taken from a speech from one of Ayn Rand's characte...| www.pinkerite.com
Lessons from 2023, the year the momentum stalled| www.notboring.co
"One can easily see Trotsky at Burning Man."| graymirror.substack.com
Gemini and the supply paradox of AI| www.theintrinsicperspective.com
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work that advances the industry. This is a lightly controversial view, so I wanted to pull together my full set of thoughts on the topic. The themes I want to work through are:| lethain.com
Physics mythology and the String Wars| bucketoverflow.substack.com
Dark Mode Toggle| vitalik.eth.limo
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to| Andreessen Horowitz
The Greeks didn't think fire was a mistake. (P.S. You're also getting Frankenstein wrong.)| vpostrel.substack.com
This is a version of The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. I believe technology is a unique human capacity that can| Nitin Pai's Cyberspace
What it means to me, and why I support it.| www.noahpinion.blog
It's not funny, V.C.s only do this when they’re in extreme distress.| maxread.substack.com
On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"| davekarpf.substack.com
