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A Tale of Two Extinctions
Jun 19, 2025 When Silicon Valley ideologues express fears of extinction, they don’t mean what they want you to think they mean.
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Machine Learning MAGA: Rise of the Christian Cyborg
May 22, 2025 There are signs that the transhumanism of Elon Musk is merging with the traditionalism of Steve Bannon.
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The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology
Apr 25, 2025 Powerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is almost up.
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Go West, Weird Man
Aug 8, 2024 The oddballs of the MAGA movement have nothing on Silicon Valley transhumanists.
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Throwing Bullets in Glass Houses
Jul 15, 2024 It is the MAGA movement, not Democrats or the left, that has embraced a culture of violent political rhetoric.
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The New Optimist Movement Has a Numbers Problem
Jun 20, 2024 How Steven Pinker and his merry band of extreme optimists downplay the persistence of widespread human suffering and misery.
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Team Human vs. Team Posthuman—Which Side Are You On?
Apr 4, 2024 How Silicon Valley billionaires intentionally muddle public conversations around human extinction.
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The Madness of the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence
Mar 14, 2024 The people plunging us all toward AGI are saying some very scary things. We’d be wise to pay them heed.
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‘Effective Accelerationism’ and the Pursuit of Cosmic Utopia
Dec 14, 2023 How an arcane philosophical rift in Silicon Valley is shaping the race to build artificial general intelligence.
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Fraud, Lies, Exploitation and Eugenic Fantasies
Nov 9, 2023 The multibillion-dollar Effective Altruism movement makes rich people feel good about being rich — to hell with the bad publicity.
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