Marc Andreessen
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026
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Which is kind of the point of the op, right?
If you and I were going to be Machiavellian and we wanted to start a movement, right?
And we wanted to start a moral outrage cycle because we had some underlying goal because we were either trying to win an election or trying to get a political something, you know, law passed or something like that.
We were going to like, we're maximum like Machiavellian deviousness and we're going to like have a black budget, you know, and we're going to pay influencers to, you know, all this stuff that people say, you know, we're going to have our bot army and so forth.
Like the point of it is not to just like have a bunch of propaganda online with a bot army behind it.
The point is to get people to actually believe it.
Right.
That is the goal.
Right.
And so and then, you know, you don't want to have to pay for like every post.
Right.
At some point you want them to be happening organically, even just out of self-economic interest.
And so you actually you're actually trying to generate you're actually trying to generate the thing.
Actually, there's there's a great paper on this.
Timur Kuran, who's the famous sort of guy who talks about preference falsification, and then Cass Sunstein, wrote this thing years ago where they talk about this phenomenon relevant here.
They call it availability cascade.
So their term for this kind of thing that we've been talking about, which is like a viral outreach cycle,
Their term for it, they call availability cascade.
And what they mean by availability cascade is sort of cascade means basically the process, it's the sociological term for sort of an idea or concept kind of cascading through society, kind of building a momentum as it goes.
And then availability, they call it based on the idea of availability bias, which basically is we tend to over-focus on the thing that's right in front of us.
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