More everything forever
AI overlords, space empires, and Silicon Valley's crusade to control the fate of humanity
by Adam Becker · first published 2025
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
Examines the overlapping circles of effective altruism, rationalism, AI doom and accelerationism, laying out their arguments and then critiquing them; suits readers wanting a skeptical map of Silicon Valley futurism.
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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 j
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> 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.
on “Guess I'm a rationalist now” ↗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…
on “Guess I'm a rationalist now” ↗…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...
on “New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)” ↗My favourite by far was Adam Becker's More Everything Forever. Special mention also goes to Taming Silicon Valley by Gary Marcus.
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗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…
on “The Adolescence of Technology” ↗