Mark Andreessen’s Dangerous Dorm Room Eugenics
February 2, 2025 [updated April 12, 2025]
Seeking to cement their status, a new generation of “super geniuses” is reanimating a pseudoscience that, when last deployed, helped pave a path to the Holocaust.

Marc Andreessen. Photo: JD Lasica – https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/10082059294/
After co-authoring the Mosaic web browser and co-founding and flipping Netscape, Marc Andreessen converted millions into billions through the investment firm Andreessen Horowitz. In that time, he also become a super genius, consuming vast quantities of popular science and Ayn Rand-adjacent sociopathy and transmuting it into a power-justifying philosophy. Joining with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and a host of other wealthy secondary-source thinkers, Andreessen, along with his TESCREAL [1] brothers, believes a transhuman utopia, [2] or, more accurately, a near utopia, [3] is the destiny of our species, and that AI is our vehicle. [4] But this will only happen, Andreessen warns, if progress is not limited by bureaucratic constraints, particularly those imposed by environmentalists. Oh, also, only if smart people like him start having more children.
It’s all old wine in new bottles.