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Andreesseen manifesto just confirmed what I wrote about the guy BEFORE he published it:

clueless about what real parenting and human education are... extremely narrow-minded...just more of the same cult that's been screwing the world for years, now just faster

From here: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/taking-ai-too-seriously-is-not-intelligent

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Hi, Virginia. If you are taking a deep dive into Progress Studies, you might want to take a look at my two books on the subject.: "From Poverty to Progress" and "Promoting Progress."

I have a little different take on the subject from most.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XKZDRRW?ref_=dbs_p_pwh_rwt_anx_b_lnk&storeType=ebooks

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Thank you Virginia. Terrific.

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Not to quibble, but is dynamism a *form* of liberalism or a *spirit* of liberalism? I embrace it (as best I can) as the latter. That is, my guess is that a dynamist liberal would appreciate (with caveats) the insight of Spencer Tracy’s highly memorable closing argument before an early twentieth-century jury deliberating on the value of progress in *Inherit the Wind*: Yes, “you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance”; “you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell like gasoline.” Statist-minded liberals, on the other hand, tend to reject unknown trade-offs with alarm, even after consuming the material benefits of that dynamism. No?

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