startups 4
- There are no bad ideas among qualified people starting technology companies; there is only timing and execution.
- Young founders who appear to have no track record have almost always been working inside their problem for years already.
Marc Andreessen
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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AI alignment 2
- 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.
- The AI-extinction position is non-scientific: it offers no testable hypothesis, nothing that would falsify it, and no threshold for danger.
education 2
- Mass schooling was designed as a factory a century ago, has run on autopilot since, and does not fit the world it now serves.
- School reform cannot work, because the system being reformed has no intention of being reformed.
government 2
- Open access to information makes a closed information regime on the Soviet model fundamentally impossible to sustain.
- The deepest political conflict of the internet era is between those using the network to reinforce top-down power and those using it to disrupt it.
ideas vs execution 2
- There are no bad ideas among qualified people starting technology companies; there is only timing and execution.
- Every failed dot-com idea of the late 1990s has since been made to work by somebody.