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Marc Andreessen
pmarca.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2023
Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and Netscape co-creator, writes a newsletter on technology, AI, techno-optimism, and the history of Mosaic and Netscape.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts on AI and unemployment; one praises his unapologetic capitalism, while another links his post on pausing alcohol.
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- 1Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment4 people · 29 points · first shared 2023 · 15 comments on HN
- 2The Techno-Optimist Manifesto4 people · 11 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Fighting4 people · 7 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Availability Cascades Run the World4 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 5Followup to Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment3 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 6For Polarization2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 7On Pausing Alcohol2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 8The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]1 people · 380 points · first shared 2024 · 133 comments on HN
- 9Why AI Will Save the World1 people · 9 points · first shared 2023 · 7 comments on HN
- 10On the Candlemaker's Petition1 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11The Little Tech Agenda1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Welcome1 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 13Marc Andreessen Substack1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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sjkoelle · 2023-05-08
here is pmarcas take https://pmarca.substack.com/p/followup-to-why-ai-wont-cause-unemployme…
brap · 2023-03-05
I 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-unemployme…
rahimnathwani · 2026-01-08
and 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 they know what Baumol's cost disease is: https://a16z.com/why-ac-is-cheap-but-ac-repair-is-a-luxury/
simonebrunozzi · 2023-03-05
The 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
James_Henry · 2023-03-05
It'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)
patrickhogan1 · 2024-04-09
https://pmarca.substack.com/p/availability-cascades-run-the-world
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 advance their own agendas. They do so by fixing people's attention on specific problems, interpreting phenomena in particular ways, and attempting to raise the salience of certain information.”
Marc goes on to say very transparently...
"What am I doing with this blog post? Trying to spark an availability cascade about availability cascades."
It appears that a16z's strategy was successful. You are posting about a16z's blog posts thus contributing to the spread of the blog posts ideas.