The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Marc Andreessen · 2023
"Technology and markets are the engines of human flourishing; stagnation and de-growth are the real enemies."
Marc Andreessen's fiery manifesto declaring that technology and free markets are the only true sources of human progress. It is a direct attack on the ideologies of stagnation, degrowth, and technological pessimism.
Andreessen frames human history as a battle between those who build and those who complain. He argues that there is no problem that cannot be solved by more technology and more energy. The manifesto asserts that 'accelerationism' is a moral imperative—that we have a duty to build intelligence, generate abundant energy, and expand into the universe. It explicitly rejects the precautionary principle (the idea that we shouldn't build things if they carry unknown risks), arguing that slowing down progress is equivalent to endorsing poverty and disease.
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