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.
  • @[email protected]
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    115 months ago

    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
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      115 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        85 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.