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  "description": "docs: review of More Everything Forever by Adam Becker",
  "path": "/posts/more-everything-forever-by-adam-becker/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://read.ryancowl.es",
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  "textContent": "More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker is a critical look at the ideologies driving some of the most powerful people in tech (digital immortality, artificial superintelligence, space colonization, the simulation hypothesis). Becker examines these ideas not as science fiction but as belief systems that are actively shaping policy, investment, and public discourse.\n\nThe core argument is that many of these visions lack the scientific foundation they claim to have, and that the people pushing them hardest tend to be the ones who stand to benefit most from concentrating power and resources in the process. Becker connects the dots between longtermism, effective altruism, and the broader pattern of using speculative futures to justify present-day accumulation.\n\nI'll be upfront, I'm not someone who needs convincing that billionaires shouldn't be steering the future of humanity. So I came in sympathetic to the premise. What I got out of it was better language for articulating why the \"move fast and save the species\" mentality is worth being skeptical of. The framing of these ideas as ideologies rather than inevitabilities is something I think more people in tech would benefit from sitting with.\n\nSome sections go deeper into the philosophical underpinnings than others, and your mileage may vary on those. But as someone who works in tech and has a complicated relationship with the industry's values, it was a useful reminder to question the ideologies that are easy to absorb without noticing when you're surrounded by them every day.",
  "title": "More Everything Forever by Adam Becker"
}