In October 2023, Marc Andreessen published a 5,200-word manifesto declaring that intelligence and energy in a positive feedback loop would make "everything we want and need abundant." When Dwarkesh Patel — who had interviewed Andreessen earlier that year — responded with criticism, Andreessen blocked him on Twitter. The manifesto's thesis was that friction is the … Continue reading Selection for Signal: How Systems Learn to Prefer Propagation Over Truth