Marc Andreessen: Going Direct | Chris Best Substack

Marc Andreessen talks to Substack CEO Chris Best about:
How tech got caught flat footed when the media turned, and why is right about going direct.
If the early web is not a good analogy for AI, what is?
Insane Facebook AI Slop!! (Noah Smith and I went deep in a previous episode)
How Marc is trying to use AI to replace me
The dead internet theory, wireheading, and romance novels
Substack and how it fits into internet history
The collapse of centralized institutions
asks “Why is pmarca promoting dime square writer girlies”?
Gen X and Gen Z allying against the hated Millennials, to whom I am apparently a traitor
Retweeting into a tech career
Becoming open minded