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对 billionaire 咋想的和各种人类中心哲学不是特别大兴趣但是出于对永恒增长的厌恶开始读本书，书有自己的 bias 和问题（前面讲 EA 和长期主义的时候有点车轱辘了，最后的解决方案也大可不必硬超出能力给），但终于把我之前隐隐约约对这种天选之子无限增长的隐约但说不出哪里不对的厌恶具像化了：这种不增长毋宁死的，自诩救世主的，condescending 的，人类中心的，太把自己当回事的狂妄感。在经历了几百年的南海、铁路、无线电、互联网等一波波前赴后继的科技泡沫之后，“奇点将至”又给了新一波非要像癌细胞一样追求无限增长的人类中心主义的自恋狂魔一波贩售赎罪券的借口。对 AI 大炼钢狂热感到厌倦乃至绝望的人可以读读这本，跟作者一起被恶心到极点之后或许能起到触底反弹以毒攻毒的效果。
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author:
Adam Becker
publishing house:
Basic Books
2025
- 04
other title:
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
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.
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.