What Andreessen is hinting at, albeit still largely surface level, is 无心 or no mind.

Popular in martial arts and Buddhist philosophy, I think practically what you should take away is that body and mind are fundamentally intertwined.

Introspection is a practice of the mind, specifically cognition centered around portions of the brain like the prefrontal cortex. There’s a lot more to who you are and areas you can hone / cultivate.

The HN crowd is probably overweighted on cognition, and could do with spending more time in other areas: https://www.cheltenhamzen.co.uk/writings/gut-instinct

That is a very very very charitable interpretation of what he's saying.

Hetzner bare metal ran much of crypto for many years before they cracked down on it.

There's something deeply poetic about using modern engineering knowledge to breathe new life into the warm, fuzzy glow of an analog CRT.

This is really cool, thanks for surfacing.

Going to be so awesome when we have native crypto rails live in game for mmorpgs.

Biggest update I see is that he thinks AI 2027 is actually going to happen.

We’re going to see all talk of AI 2027 quietly disappear as folks realize how out-of-touch with reality it is. I have no idea why people take that crap seriously.

Build out distribution first and generate network effects.

This piece totally misreads the temperament of actual builders imo. The author confuses a malicious will to power with a genuine, if sometimes naive, optimism that code/crypto can solve human coordination problems.

Although that may be a lack of historical knowledge on my part, Lenin does not strike me as suffering from a thirst of power but as sincere ideologue (in rare combination with a good dose of pragmatism, see his critique and later repression of "leftists" and his adoption of the NEP)

But that "pragmatism" as you put it is exactly my point. A true ideologue would have realized the revolutionaries in Kronstadt had created a system more in line with the ideals of the revolution than what he had created and woouldn't have set the army out to destroy them. nor would he have introduced the NEP (basically a limited re-introduction of capitalism to save the faltering Soviet economy). In the end, the important thing to Lenin was Lenin -- not any ideology.

No idea why you're getting downvoted. That's exactly how it played out. Though the "mass of people" rapidly lost their naivete.

Found this short story on Openclaw to be relevant:

https://x.com/gf_256/status/2018844976486945112

Part of the reason why I come to HN is that conversations like these still happen.