More everything forever
This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—are about oligarchic power, not preparing for the future Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs. In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason—for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity—at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change. What’s more, these futuristic visions cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience. More Everything Forever exposes the powerful and sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are.
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- I really recommend “More Everything Forever” by Adam Becker. The book does a really good job laying out the arguments for AI doom, EA, accelerationism, and affiliated movements, including an interview with Yudkowsky, then debunking them. But it really opened my eyes to how… bizarre? eccentric? unbelievable? this whole industry is. I’ve been in tech for over a decade but don’t live in the bay, and some of the stuff these people believe, or at least say they believe, is truly nuts. I don’t know how else to describe it.
- My favourite by far was Adam Becker's More Everything Forever.
Special mention also goes to Taming Silicon Valley by Gary Marcus.
- If you look at who supports this theory, it's all ego-driven software engineers who believe they can solve physics from first principles, ignoring hundreds of years of evidence that these laws do apply.
Highly recommend reading this book for how these sci-fi theories are being used to promote eugenics, climate destruction, and pseudoscience: https://www.amazon.com/More-Everything-Forever-Overlords-Hum...
- > They remind me of the "Effective Altruism" crowd
Isn't there a lot of overlap between the two groups?
I recently read a great book that examines these various groups and their commonality: More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker. Highly recommended.
- There is a great recent book by Adam Becker "More Everything Forever" that deals with the overlapping circles of "effective altruists", "rationalists", and "accelerationists". He's not very sympathetic to the movements as he sees them as mostly rationalizing what their adherents wanted to do anyway -- funding things like rockets and AI over feeding the needy because they see the former as helping more people in the future than dealing with real problems today.
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