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Marc Andreessen
Personal blog · pmarca.substack.comeconomicsstartupsai
Marc Andreessen's personal blog at pmarca.substack.com covers economics, startups and ai. Since 2023, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
My personal Substack. Personal views only. Actually, not even personal views. I don't even know what my personal views are anymore. It doesn't matter. Read anyway! Click to read Marc Andreessen Substack, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-10-16
- Availability Cascades Run the World4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-02-28
- Fighting4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-07-14
- Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-04
- Followup to Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-05
- On Pausing Alcohol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-05
- For Polarization2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
What Hacker News says?
https://pmarca.substack.com/p/availability-cascades-run-the-... Availability entrepreneurs are “social agents who understand the dynamics of availability cascades and seek to exploit their insights. Located anywhere in the social system, including the government, the media, nonprofit organizations, the business sector, and even households, these entrepreneurs attempt to trigger availability cascades likely to advanc…
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on “A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing”Submitted The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video] as a story · 380 points
HN discussionand it's pretty obvious that whoever was said that quote was going for shock/cleverness and sacrificed truth and understanding It's not obvious from the quote, which just states something that is obviously true, and doesn't attempt to explain it. But ... Andreessen has elsewhere claimed it's due to regulation: https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-wont-cause-unemployment But ... more recently his firm has explained t…
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on “How Did TVs Get So Cheap?”Submitted Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI genuinely love how Marc Andreessen is a capitalist and isn't apologetic about it. It's honestly refreshing, coming from a tech billionaire in '23 SV. And I agree with every word. There's a follow-up, by the way: https://pmarca.substack.com/p/followup-to-why-ai-wont-cause-...
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on “Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment”Submitted Why AI Will Save the World as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt's because he stopped drinking recently. https://pmarca.substack.com/p/on-pausing-alcohol (In all seriousness, I'm very happy it's becoming more fashionable to not drink)
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on “Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment”Submitted The Techno-Optimist Manifesto as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhere is pmarcas take https://pmarca.substack.com/p/followup-to-why-ai-wont-cause-...
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on “‘Godfather of AI’ says its threat is ‘more urgent’ than climate change”Submitted Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe problem is whether the then-candlemakers, or today's knowledge workers, will be out of a job, or not. In his other recent newsletter post, Marc Andreessen actually claims that AI will not cause unemployment [0]. [0]: https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-wont-cause-unemployment
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on “On the Candlemaker's Petition”Submitted The Little Tech Agenda as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marc Andreessen: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Candlemaker's Petition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcome as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Techno-Optimist Manifesto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' – 50B people settling other planets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting, by Marc Andreessen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Pausing Alcohol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Polarization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Followup to Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Availability Cascades Run the World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Polarization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Availability Cascades as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Availability Cascades as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marc Andreessen Substack as a story · 1 points
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