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Marc Andreessen is casting anyone against "techno-optimism" as an enemy.
  • Billionaire VC Marc Andreessen wrote a manifesto plugging "techno-optimism."
  • It's an old Silicon Valley philosophy packaged anew: Growth without guardrails.
  • The idea is to paint regulators, ethicists, and anyone questioning the benefits of tech as an enemy.

Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen would like you to shut up about AI taking your job.

Andreessen, the eponymous cofounder of Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, is known for firing off lengthy memos in defense of technology, the sector that has enriched him.