"These F*cking People" with Adam Becker
Dystopia Now · Kate Willett and Emile Torres
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Show Notes
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This week we interviewed astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity. Becker contends that Silicon Valley's grandiose fantasies cloak a hunger for control, often rooted in pseudoscience and elitism rather than real science or ethics Adam cuts through the bullshit of Mars colonization, sentient AI and digital immortality to bring us all back down to earth. Where we live. And are going to stay forever.
Futher Reading:
More Everything Forever:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-becker/more-everything-forever/9781541619593/