Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz sits down with Erik Torenberg and his @MomentofZenPodcast co-hosts Dan Romero and Antonio Garcia Martinez to discuss AI, religion, San Francisco politics, Eric Voegelin, and life extension. Subscribe to Moment of Zen: https://link.chtbl.com/moz
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LINKS:
Check out Upstream's first interview with Marc, about Marc's Intellectual Education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBj1gzxFkg&t=1s
Marc Andreessen, Fighting https://pmarca.substack.com/p/fighting
Marc Andreessen, Why AI Will Save The World. https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-will-save-the-world
Eric Voegelin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Voegelin
Book: Regime Change by Patrick J. Deneen https://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Toward-Postliberal-Future/dp/0593086902
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode preview
(01:59) The evolution of human entertainment from epic poetry to NPC Tiktoks
(07:20) Violence is a choice
(11:30) True democracy mandates military service as a virtue
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(17:22) Can San Francisco be fixed?
(28:03) Marc's empirical argument for AI
(31:45) Where Sam Harris gets it wrong
(35:35) Eric Voegelin's concept of Immanetizing the Eschaton
(41:40) What happens to religion after AI
(48:54) What would Nietzsche say?
(49:44) LLMs are already the subject of a religious war
(53:28) What comes after liberalism
(01:03:03) Based on Zuck's recent PR success, are alpha males back?
(01:07:23) Men’s tailoring and the stripping of masculinity
(01:09:50) Is Twitter’s influence the real world? Alana Newhouse on MOZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmgtPetHBVw&t=349s
(01:13:25 ) Is Left vs Right the central conflict of our time?
(01:18:30) Life extension
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