<i>The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the scaremongering coming from people who don't work on AI is lunacy.</i><p><i>-- Marc Andreessen</i><p>Given that a significant portion of what marca himself says and advocates these days is, if not "lunacy", definitely from somewhere very deep in loose cannon territory -- and given the naked over-generalizations embedded in the statement itself (which, when you break it down, is basically a strawman argument) -- I'm just not sure what value he's adding to the discussion, here.