Marc Andreessen

And this is one of the reasons why you have to look at what people do is because you can make a poll, say whatever you want.

In fact, there's a whole category of poll that's called a push poll, push poll, P-O-L-L, push poll, which is you word the questions in a way to generate the answers that you want.

Or you word the questions in a way to actually cause people to think differently than they did before the poll.

So the political example of a push poll is would you continue to support your favorite candidate if you knew that he was killing kittens in his spare time?

Right, and so number one is people are going to say, no, of course I would not support him.

And then number two, people are going to say, wait a minute, I didn't know he killed kittens in his spare time.

You know, that's horrible, right?

And so in polling, you can manipulate these things in all kinds of ways, up to and including what people actually think.

So it's really, really dangerous.

And then you overlay on top of that the media environment.

And, of course, the media environment is, you know, as you and I have discussed many times, like what is the thing that hates the most in the entire world, you know, is tech.

And, of course, what is the vanguard of tech right now?

One of the things is AI.

And so, of course, the press hates AI with the fury of a thousand suns.

And so the press is running this, you know, sustained, you know, kind of fear campaign.

And so if you just if you like drown the audience with negative narratives and then you ask, you know, basically these these loaded polling questions, of course, you're going to generate.

I mean, I we can pick any topic we can pick like fluffy bunnies running in the field and we can produce the same thing.

You know, don't you know how much they shit?

Like, I mean, you can just do all kind, you know, they chew up all the crops.

Everybody's going to die from hunger.