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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.
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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 month ago (9 children)

considering that his previous manifesto was titled "It's Time To Build" and he did not, in fact, built anything, makes me think that the only thing he can fill a pipe bomb with is hot air

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

file that under "venmo for isis" or maybe "tinder for hitmen"

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, tindr for hitmen would obviously be murdr.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

won't that be grindr for hitmen

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

iMurdr, murdr is the app for police. Weird overlap in features though.

Look, the spec just said that you should be able to use the app to get a man with a gun to show up and make someone dead, it did not specify what he should be wearing at the time.

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