https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
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Techno-optimism is the belief that rapid technological progress is the main driver of human prosperity and should be pursued as a moral imperative. It argues that:
Growth = Good: Innovation creates abundance, longer lives, and better living standards.
Barriers = Bad: Regulation, caution, and pessimism slow down progress and should be resisted.
Technology as Solution: Challenges like poverty, disease, and climate change are best solved by accelerating science and technology rather than restricting them.
In short: Techno-optimism sees faster innovation as the surest path to human flourishing — and treats resistance to technological progress as harmful.
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Here’s a structured overview of the major schools of economic thought, mapped across time, followed by an estimate of which views dominate public and policy thinking today.
📜 Timeline of Major Economic Schools
1. Mercantilism (1500s–1700s)
Core idea: National wealth measured by gold/silver; exports > imports; heavy state control.
Influence: Guided colonial empires, trade monopolies, and tariffs.
2. Classical Economics (1776–1870)
Key figures: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill.
Core idea: Free markets, division of labour, “invisible hand”; emphasis on production and growth.
Impact: Industrial Revolution policy, laissez-faire capitalism.
3. Marxism & Socialist Economics (mid-1800s–present)
Key figure: Karl Marx.
Core idea: Critique of capitalism, labour theory of value, class struggle, state ownership.
Impact: Inspired communist revolutions, socialist policies, labour movements.
4. Marginalism & Neoclassical Economics (1870s–present)
Key figures: Jevons, Walras, Marshall.
Core idea: Value determined by marginal utility; equilibrium analysis; rational individuals.
Impact: Foundation of modern mainstream economics, microeconomics.
5. Keynesian Economics (1930s–present)
Key figure: John Maynard Keynes.
Core idea: Markets can fail (esp. in depressions); governments should manage demand using fiscal & monetary policy.
Impact: Guided post–WWII Western economies, welfare state expansion.
6. Monetarism & Chicago School (1950s–1980s)
Key figure: Milton Friedman.
Core idea: Control money supply to manage inflation; limit government intervention.
Impact: Reaganomics, Thatcherism, central bank independence.
7. Austrian School (late 1800s–present, revived 1970s)
Key figures: Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek.
Core idea: Importance of entrepreneurship, spontaneous order, critique of central planning.
Impact: Free-market think tanks, libertarian movements.
8. Development Economics (1940s–present)
Core idea: Structural transformation, role of institutions, tackling poverty in Global South.
Impact: World Bank, UN development policy, debates on aid.
9. New Keynesian & New Classical Synthesis (1980s–present)
Core idea: Rational expectations (New Classical) + sticky wages/prices (New Keynesian).
Impact: Dominant academic framework; forms the basis of central bank models today.
10. Modern Schools (1990s–present)
Behavioural Economics: Psychology meets economics (Kahneman, Thaler).
Post-Keynesian / MMT (Modern Monetary Theory): Governments with sovereign currencies can run large deficits to ensure employment.
Ecological Economics: Sustainability, climate change, “beyond GDP”.
Techno-Optimist / Data-driven Economics: Big data, market design, platform economies.
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https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
"
Techno-optimism is the belief that rapid technological progress is the main driver of human prosperity and should be pursued as a moral imperative. It argues that:
Growth = Good: Innovation creates abundance, longer lives, and better living standards.
Barriers = Bad: Regulation, caution, and pessimism slow down progress and should be resisted.
Technology as Solution: Challenges like poverty, disease, and climate change are best solved by accelerating science and technology rather than restricting them.
In short: Techno-optimism sees faster innovation as the surest path to human flourishing — and treats resistance to technological progress as harmful.
"
Here’s a structured overview of the major schools of economic thought, mapped across time, followed by an estimate of which views dominate public and policy thinking today.
📜 Timeline of Major Economic Schools
1. Mercantilism (1500s–1700s)
Core idea: National wealth measured by gold/silver; exports > imports; heavy state control.
Influence: Guided colonial empires, trade monopolies, and tariffs.
2. Classical Economics (1776–1870)
Key figures: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill.
Core idea: Free markets, division of labour, “invisible hand”; emphasis on production and growth.
Impact: Industrial Revolution policy, laissez-faire capitalism.
3. Marxism & Socialist Economics (mid-1800s–present)
Key figure: Karl Marx.
Core idea: Critique of capitalism, labour theory of value, class struggle, state ownership.
Impact: Inspired communist revolutions, socialist policies, labour movements.
4. Marginalism & Neoclassical Economics (1870s–present)
Key figures: Jevons, Walras, Marshall.
Core idea: Value determined by marginal utility; equilibrium analysis; rational individuals.
Impact: Foundation of modern mainstream economics, microeconomics.
5. Keynesian Economics (1930s–present)
Key figure: John Maynard Keynes.
Core idea: Markets can fail (esp. in depressions); governments should manage demand using fiscal & monetary policy.
Impact: Guided post–WWII Western economies, welfare state expansion.
6. Monetarism & Chicago School (1950s–1980s)
Key figure: Milton Friedman.
Core idea: Control money supply to manage inflation; limit government intervention.
Impact: Reaganomics, Thatcherism, central bank independence.
7. Austrian School (late 1800s–present, revived 1970s)
Key figures: Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek.
Core idea: Importance of entrepreneurship, spontaneous order, critique of central planning.
Impact: Free-market think tanks, libertarian movements.
8. Development Economics (1940s–present)
Core idea: Structural transformation, role of institutions, tackling poverty in Global South.
Impact: World Bank, UN development policy, debates on aid.
9. New Keynesian & New Classical Synthesis (1980s–present)
Core idea: Rational expectations (New Classical) + sticky wages/prices (New Keynesian).
Impact: Dominant academic framework; forms the basis of central bank models today.
10. Modern Schools (1990s–present)
Behavioural Economics: Psychology meets economics (Kahneman, Thaler).
Post-Keynesian / MMT (Modern Monetary Theory): Governments with sovereign currencies can run large deficits to ensure employment.
Ecological Economics: Sustainability, climate change, “beyond GDP”.
Techno-Optimist / Data-driven Economics: Big data, market design, platform economies.
82. Is Free Speech Right? Mentioning Sam Harris, Ben Thompson, Yuval Harai & More.
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82. Is Free Speech Right? Mentioning Sam Harris, Ben Thompson, Yuval Harai & More.
"Free speech is the master value as it's the value that updates all othe values."
“I’m worried that as technology gets more powerful that it’ll be easier for the minorities who want to screw things up, to screw things up.”
“Today it’s possible for one person to derange the lives of million, even billions of people.” Sam Harris.
Who is worse for free speech? The hard left or the hard right?
IMO the hard left. Woke people.
“Woke mind virus is the biggest threat to the civilization”
IMO extremists on the left or the right are the problem. Extremists in general. The more annoyed they get about each other the worse. IMO wokeism is much more accepted in main stream than trumpism.
Woke: a state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everythign exepct their own behaviour.
It's interesting. This is causing the loss of free speech. And that is hard core problematic because handing power to governments who normally don't give it back.
Power corrupts, and ultimate power corrupts ultimately. People stop telling you the truth, start pandering. Then you definitely get high on your own supply. Then people start to hate you but you can't see it and think they are stupid.
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https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
"
Techno-optimism is the belief that rapid technological progress is the main driver of human prosperity and should be pursued as a moral imperative. It argues that:
Growth = Good: Innovation creates abundance, longer lives, and better living standards.
Barriers = Bad: Regulation, caution, and pessimism slow down progress and should be resisted.
Technology as Solution: Challenges like poverty, disease, and climate change are best solved by accelerating science and technology rather than restricting them.
In short: Techno-optimism sees faster innovation as the surest path to human flourishing — and treats resistance to technological progress as harmful.
"
Here’s a structured overview of the major schools of economic thought, mapped across time, followed by an estimate of which views dominate public and policy thinking today.
📜 Timeline of Major Economic Schools
1. Mercantilism (1500s–1700s)
Core idea: National wealth measured by gold/silver; exports > imports; heavy state control.
Influence: Guided colonial empires, trade monopolies, and tariffs.
2. Classical Economics (1776–1870)
Key figures: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill.
Core idea: Free markets, division of labour, “invisible hand”; emphasis on production and growth.
Impact: Industrial Revolution policy, laissez-faire capitalism.
3. Marxism & Socialist Economics (mid-1800s–present)
Key figure: Karl Marx.
Core idea: Critique of capitalism, labour theory of value, class struggle, state ownership.
Impact: Inspired communist revolutions, socialist policies, labour movements.
4. Marginalism & Neoclassical Economics (1870s–present)
Key figures: Jevons, Walras, Marshall.
Core idea: Value determined by marginal utility; equilibrium analysis; rational individuals.
Impact: Foundation of modern mainstream economics, microeconomics.
5. Keynesian Economics (1930s–present)
Key figure: John Maynard Keynes.
Core idea: Markets can fail (esp. in depressions); governments should manage demand using fiscal & monetary policy.
Impact: Guided post–WWII Western economies, welfare state expansion.
6. Monetarism & Chicago School (1950s–1980s)
Key figure: Milton Friedman.
Core idea: Control money supply to manage inflation; limit government intervention.
Impact: Reaganomics, Thatcherism, central bank independence.
7. Austrian School (late 1800s–present, revived 1970s)
Key figures: Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek.
Core idea: Importance of entrepreneurship, spontaneous order, critique of central planning.
Impact: Free-market think tanks, libertarian movements.
8. Development Economics (1940s–present)
Core idea: Structural transformation, role of institutions, tackling poverty in Global South.
Impact: World Bank, UN development policy, debates on aid.
9. New Keynesian & New Classical Synthesis (1980s–present)
Core idea: Rational expectations (New Classical) + sticky wages/prices (New Keynesian).
Impact: Dominant academic framework; forms the basis of central bank models today.
10. Modern Schools (1990s–present)
Behavioural Economics: Psychology meets economics (Kahneman, Thaler).
Post-Keynesian / MMT (Modern Monetary Theory): Governments with sovereign currencies can run large deficits to ensure employment.
Ecological Economics: Sustainability, climate change, “beyond GDP”.
Techno-Optimist / Data-driven Economics: Big data, market design, platform economies.
