Does Andreessen actually believe this obvious claptrap? I mean, I can trivially write down one very simple line of math describing a thermostat, which is useful exactly because it wants to keep the temperature of a room stable, it implements a strategy for achieving that goal:
So could basically everyone that this remark is addressed to. Or does he just believe he can make more money for longer if other people believe it?
And of course there’s nothing surprising about a thermostat. It’s not complex enough to be hard to predict and thus trigger the vital force illusion. But I could write am only-slightly more complex peice of match that both kept the temperature withing acertain range, and varied it withing that range in a way that was a chaotic system (so one where the climate is predicable but the weather is not), and then it would fulfill both requirements of the vital force illusion. (Which to me sounds like a hardcoded instinctive algorithm for recognizing living agentic cretures and their influence).
Does Andreessen actually believe this obvious claptrap? I mean, I can trivially write down one very simple line of math describing a thermostat, which is useful exactly because it wants to keep the temperature of a room stable, it implements a strategy for achieving that goal:
So could basically everyone that this remark is addressed to. Or does he just believe he can make more money for longer if other people believe it?
And of course there’s nothing surprising about a thermostat. It’s not complex enough to be hard to predict and thus trigger the vital force illusion. But I could write am only-slightly more complex peice of match that both kept the temperature withing acertain range, and varied it withing that range in a way that was a chaotic system (so one where the climate is predicable but the weather is not), and then it would fulfill both requirements of the vital force illusion. (Which to me sounds like a hardcoded instinctive algorithm for recognizing living agentic cretures and their influence).