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Andreeson and co are among the VCs pumping money into the #MOLE Training hype bubble. Having anyone with such a strong interest in weak regulation advising the President on AI regulation is a textbook example of regulatory capture.
That's already deeply horrifying. Then you add in the private group chats negotiating a neo-fascist alliance between tech billionaires and far right politicians.
shudder
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Andreeson and co are among the VCs pumping money into the #MOLE Training hype bubble. Having anyone with such a strong interest in weak regulation advising the President on AI regulation is a textbook example of regulatory capture.
That's already deeply horrifying. Then you add in the private group chats negotiating a neo-fascist alliance between tech billionaires and far right politicians.
shudder
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“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations ... If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
#MarcAndreessen, 2025
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
See what happened there? Censorious liberals thought that suppressing batshit opinions on mainstream platforms would stop them existing. They were wrong. Now we're all suffering the results of their hubris.
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