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The Ben & Marc Show: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

The Ben & Marc Show: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.

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  1. White liberals have a bad habit of thinking they alone hold moral superiority, and via their virtue signaling woke nonsense push that nonsense onto the rest of us. Kudo's to Marc for realizing this rather than capitulating to it.

  2. Military organization of basic research and large projects is a fourth model, though I would put it under government organization. The first two models are commercial and social. We have plenty of traditional nonprofits, not to mention modern crowdfunding platforms, that can support non-profit efforts and maybe even organize large projects.

  3. 100% agree on when China went back to central planning they did lose

    For instance I was working at Nokia in Beijing in 2008 and China was pushing its own 3G standard called TD-SCDMA and guess what happened to it?

    Never really look off
    Few devices
    A mess

    Finally 4G unified the world under one standard and it really made everyone more of a winner

  4. This seems like a great podcast. Is there a way to hear it in Spotify or another Podcast app? I can't seem to find it. The A16z podcast does not show this Ben & Marc content. Maybe it's for YouTube only — anyone know?

  5. "I don't think it is easy to forecast these things"… meanwhile the whole conversation and recommendations in this entire hour+ is based on false assumptions made because these billionaires who are entirely out of touch with the real world. Terrible. Best thing these guys could do for the world today would be to give away all of their money at STFU and never speak again. The world would be a better place.

  6. I agree theoretically with a lot of what you guys say but you seem to have never heard of communist (East) Germany. There was NO unemployment and they discovered it with the fall of the wall. They all had a descent life, healthcare etc…

    That is why there has been a lot of nostalgia of the communist time when 20% were unemployed in the 90s 2000s. There’s even a name for it “Ostalgia”. (Ost = East in German)

  7. I've been mining truth from being a poor kid with victim minset to trusting institutions and then to being a suspicious hippie about institutions cuz everything seemed wrong… But everything seemed wrong because I could imagine something better. It seems to me like you're part of the bedrock… I really wonder what is exactly this magic technology mentioned at 27:21… and why, if it is magic, it is not public as a product people can touch yet… . -.

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