Why didn’t anybody tell me that Marc Andreesen, billionaire lobbyist, sounds like a comic book villain?

Why didn’t anybody tell me that Marc Andreesen, billionaire lobbyist, sounds like a comic book villain?

Just read his “techno-optimist manifesto” and look at what he said:

• UBI is bad and would turn humans into zoo animals to be farmed
• Lists his enemies as: sustainability, social responsibility, the precautionary principle, and existential risk
• Everybody who disagrees with him is just the howling of "communists" and "luddites"
• Slowing down AI is murder (because of all the lives AI could have saved sooner. Of course, in his world view, AI could cure all diseases ✨ but couldn’t possibly cause a species to go extinct)
• Humans are not “cowering primitives”, but “apex predators”
• AI is his philosopher's stone and will serve us and cure death
• Job and economic growth will grow infinitely and we will become technological supermen - but he doesn’t believe in utopia of course
• Hilariously accuses others of playing God with other people’s lives

No wonder he’s fighting against the AI safety bill.

I mean, I can see why it appeals to some. It reads like an Atlas Shrugged monologue. He even lists John Galt as one of the patron saints of techno-optimism.

But honestly, I consider this to be a very good sign for the bill. If the biggest enemy of the bill is somebody who reads like a comic book villain, you’re probably doing alright.