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Marc Andreessen

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Wrote the Techno-Optimist Manifesto and “Why AI Will Save The World”.

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  1. 16 Oct 2023

    Technology is a lever on the world -- the way to make more with less -- and productivity growth is the main driver of wages, industries and jobs.

    We believe technology is a lever on the world – the way to make more with less. Economists measure technological progress as productivity growth: How much more we can produce each year with fewer inputs, fewer raw materials. Productivity growth, powered by technology, is the main driver of economic growth, wage growth, and the creation of new industries and new jobs, as people and capital are continuously freed to do more important, valuable things than in the past.

    The Techno-Optimist Manifestoa16z.com

  2. 16 Oct 2023

    There is no material problem, whether created by nature or by technology, that cannot be solved with more technology.

    We believe that there is no material problem – whether created by nature or by technology – that cannot be solved with more technology.

    The Techno-Optimist Manifestoa16z.com

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  4. 6 Jun 2023

    AI will improve warfare by cutting wartime death rates, because commanders now decide under pressure on sharply limited information.

    I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders.

    Why AI Will Save The Worldpmarca.substack.com

  5. 6 Jun 2023

    The idea that AI will decide to kill humanity is a category error: it is math and code, built and controlled by people, not a living thing shaped by evolution.

    My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. AI is not a living being that has been primed by billions of years of evolution to participate in the battle for the survival of the fittest, as animals are, and as we are. It is math – code – computers, built by people, owned by people, used by people, controlled by people.

    Why AI Will Save The Worldpmarca.substack.com

  6. 6 Jun 2023

    The AI-extinction position is non-scientific: it offers no testable hypothesis, nothing that would falsify it, and no threshold for danger.

    My response is that their position is non-scientific – What is the testable hypothesis? What would falsify the hypothesis? How do we know when we are getting into a danger zone?

    Why AI Will Save The Worldpmarca.substack.com

  7. 6 Jun 2023

    The single greatest risk of AI is not AI itself but that China wins global AI dominance and the United States and the West do not.

    The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.

    Why AI Will Save The Worldpmarca.substack.com

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