Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz returns to discuss his recent essays on AI, violence, and much more including: San Francisco, mandatory military service, Voegelin, and life extension. If you’re looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: netsuite.com/zen
TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Episode preview (01:26) The evolution of human entertainment from epic poetry to NPC Tiktoks (06:50) Violence is a choice (11:00) True democracy mandates military service as a virtue (20:00) Can San Francisco be fixed? (31:00) Marc's empirical argument for AI (34:45) Sponsor: NetSuite (35:45) Where Sam Harris gets it wrong (39:37) Eric Voegelin's concept of Immanetizing the EschatonWhat happens to religion after AI? (46:20) What happens to religion after AI (52:50) What would Nietzsche say? (54:00) LLMs are already the subject of a religious war (01:03:30) What comes after liberalism (01:07:00) Based on Zuck's recent PR success, are alpha males back? (01:11:20) Men’s tailoring and the stripping of masculinity (01:13:50) Is Twitter’s influence the real world? (01:17:20) Is Left vs Right the central conflict of our time? (01:22:28) Life extension
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Check out our other interviews with Marc:
Moment of Zen E1: on SBF/FTX, Twitter, and Open AI/Chat GPT www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWIM-F0e144
Moment of Zen E2: on Elon Musk, Nietzsche, and America's Thousand-Year Empire www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_oSLPqc-k
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode preview
(01:26) The evolution of human entertainment from epic poetry to NPC Tiktoks
(06:50) Violence is a choice
(11:00) True democracy mandates military service as a virtue
(20:00) Can San Francisco be fixed?
(31:00) Marc's empirical argument for AI
(34:45) Sponsor: NetSuite
(35:45) Where Sam Harris gets it wrong
(39:37) Eric Voegelin's concept of Immanetizing the EschatonWhat happens to religion after AI?
(46:20) What happens to religion after AI
(52:50) What would Nietzsche say?
(54:00) LLMs are already the subject of a religious war
(01:03:30) What comes after liberalism
(01:07:00) Based on Zuck's recent PR success, are alpha males back?
(01:11:20) Men’s tailoring and the stripping of masculinity
(01:13:50) Is Twitter’s influence the real world?
(01:17:20) Is Left vs Right the central conflict of our time?
(01:22:28) Life extension
LINKS:
Marc Andreessen, Fighting pmarca.substack.com/p/fighting
Marc Andreessen, Why AI Will Save The World. pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-will-save-the-world
Eric Voegelin, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Voegelin
Book: Regime Change by Patrick J. Deneen www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Toward-Postliberal-Future/dp/0593086902
TWITTER:
@pmarca (Marc)
@dwr (Dan)
@antoniogm (Antonio)
@eriktorenberg (Erik)
SPONSOR:
NetSuite provides financial software for all your business needs. More than thirty-six thousand companies have already upgraded to NetSuite, gaining visibility and control over their financials, inventory, HR, eCommerce, and more. If you're looking for an ERP platform ✅ NetSuite: netsuite.com/zen and defer payments of a FULL NetSuite implementation for six months.