“In October 2023, Marc Andreessen released22 a “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”, which outlined an explicitly “anti-safety” vision. We mentioned this screed in Chapter 2 because it describes, among many things, natalist fantasies that suggest people in “developed societies” (which we read as a dog whistle for “white people”) need to be breeding more, and proclaimed that the enemy of progress was “deceleration, de-growth, depopulation.” He warns his readers to guard against a whole slew of different bogeymen, including not only “existential risk” but also “sustainability” (as if climate were not a major concern), “trust and safety” (the organization within tech companies generally trusted with removing fraud, scams, nonconsensual pornography, child sexual abuse material, gore and violence, and other awful content), and “tech ethics” (we like to think that we’re included in this category).”