More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam BeckerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
More Everything Forever is a calm, fact-fueled refutation of Billionaires' obsessions with "effective altruism," the AI singularity, and saving humanity via exoplanetary settlement. Becker argues all these pet projects are absolute, one hundred precent, Grade-A bullshit. Complete rot. Though valiant-sounding, fighting theoretical super-intelligent machines or promising infinite growth are moral feints, the flimsy shields behind which Billionaires try to justify their inhumane wealth. The likelihood of any of these scenarios hovers around zero. Worse, by claiming all humanities problems can be solved through technology, the tech bros and ultrawealthy engineers create themselves as ultimate arbiters of right and wrong; the new gods. It's all ego run amok. Throughout Becker's voice is restrained, almost parental, funny at times, bringing out the receipts time and time again. More Everything Forever is fresh air against a plague of wealth and power.
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