The Little Tech Agenda | Andreessen Horowitz
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The time has come to stand up for Little Tech. Bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech. We believe American technology supremacy, and the critical role that Little Tech startups play in ensuring that supremacy, is a first class political issue on par with any other.

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.
  • kbal@fedia.io
    30·
    4 months ago

    new industries, such as Blockchain.

    While resisting the morbid curiosity that might otherwise tempt me to follow the link, I paused to consider that one phrase, with the capital B and all. How did it come to this? What is it about this cumbersome and inefficient type of database that makes people go crazy for it? Or could they have just as easily picked some other algorithm to glorify? It would be quite a world if every data structure we invented got people believing that there’s going to be a whole new industry devoted to it. Yeah, I’m working on a new project in the Hash Table industry. We’re going to combine it with Sorting Algorithm technology to deliver revolutionary new techniques for optimizing pizza delivery. I would like a hundred million dollars please.

    • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
      22·
      4 months ago

      Bitcoin enables the fantasy of becoming a rent-seeking plutocrat that cannot have their wealth seized by a government nor a popular uprising.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      142·
      4 months ago

      I didn’t “read” read, but I skimmed through it, and the core premise doesn’t seem that much better.

      I’m anti regulatory capture, which shouldn’t be a complicated stance, but the government just isn’t actively suppressing new tech industries. They’re slow and reactionary.

      They didn’t regulate junk crypto shit until way after people got scammed out of millions of dollars, and that regulation is mostly about exchanges involved real money being documented and taxed.

      They are trying to regulate “AI”, (and mostly shouldn’t, except energy use) but again, after it became a massive industry with billions of dollars thrown around. And it’s a pretty weak response, way after massive amounts of noise about IP and heavy lobbying from the “new industry” they’re supposedly trying to prevent.

      There’s also a fucking bunch of noise that doesn’t actually say anything.