Greg M. Epstein

The World’s First AI Dating Café Is Opening In NYC This December EVA Café is the world’s first ai dating café heading to New York City designed for people to enjoy a romantic date…with their AI partners.

Sartre said "Hell is other people" but what did *he* know? You've been DISRUPTED, Jean-Paul. Hell is now officially other...whatever the fuck this is.
#NoExitAI

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In Rome f/2 days! For interfaith discussions on AI, religion, & humanity. More on that later. One other person I'd love to meet: artist @wertherdelledera.bsky.social @boom-studios.com. I'm a big fan and (announcement?!) I've been working all year on a graphic novel. Most fun writing of my career.

These are likely system-destroying increases. I don’t think that’s being given enough column space.

Just got really excited about how new writing is coming along for the first time since I finished working on #TechAgnostic. The new (related! but *also* a totally new direction for me!) book proposal is getting good...

Great work, @jackjenkins.me.

Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

This=the endgame of what I call Tech Religion. As a kid I joined a chorus that sang "From a Distance" for big, idealistic crowds—because when Bette Midler first crooned "God is watching us," it sounded so uplifting. I don't think cyborg spy cockroach armies were what she had in mind, but here we are

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

Is it good when your product is reviewed by everyone but they all say it sucks.

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

I told you all, in painstaking detail, about how Silicon Valley had literally begun to treat AI like a Messiah. I really, really wish I'd been kidding or exaggerating.

Folks are looking for press covering ICE in Adelanto, CA. San Bernardino County.

Wow cool to get a comment from you Renee! Yes he's so tedious & just bad—to those fortunate enough to be well-trained not just intellectually but also to have heart/compassion. BUT MANY aren't so lucky—they may have power/$ but struggle w/human connection. For them his dourness=rebellion & it sells

I mean...I think he is an incredibly dangerous man. I hugely admire your courage, determination, skill to take him on. You're a force of nature. Obviously you won on so many levels. I also think this is just the beginning of what taking him on would need to mean. Would love to join the fray w/you

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+performed+at+msg+tonight&oq=who+per&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDnSAQgyMDIyajBqOagCALACAQ&client=ms-android-att-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Heading home I passed by tens of thousands of concertgoers parading out of MSG in Manhattan. What does the world's richest tech company, its fortune built on search, have to say about that? Absolutely nothing correct. AI worshippers: your God is fucking pathetic. (Tate McRae=the correct answer fwiw)

Nice, I am feeling like I don't feel like posting my reactions on this site just yet, but your class sounds fascinating and if helpful I'm always happy to talk through ideas with you

Lol @davidfrye.bsky.social I've missed our chats but can't necessarily say I've missed this kind of social media! We should do a family reunion instead and kibbitz about politics and society in real time!

This place was still hopping when I decided to take a 6-month social media break...six months ago. How's it going now?

Glen says there is a need and a purpose to it, and I believe he has thought that through deeply. We shall see, and I am not involved in this event in the slightest, but I am prepared to potentially come away from this fully agreeing with you.

Playbill for this event https://opentodebate.org/debate/should-the-u-s-be-ruled-by-a-ceo-dictator/

Open to Debate (non-profit organization sponsoring the event)

Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?

Did I travel to NYC for 15 hours to see a debate between @glenweyl.bsky.social and Curtis Yarvin, a man known as "Mencius Moldbug" for his influence on people like Thiel, Vance, and Musk,
on whether the U.S. should be ruled by a CEO dictator? Why yes, it appears that I did. #OpenToDebate #Scared

I'm in month 5 of a 6-month self-gifted sabbatical from social media posting—but allowed myself a LinkedIn life update—I'm in a NYT article on "Techno-Religion" as NYT's Cade Metz calls it. 🎯 what my 📔 #TechAgnostic is about! Check out my post on LI & @bcmerchant.bsky.social's great writeup here.

The Techno-Utopian Seasteaders Who Want to Colonize the Ocean (Gift Article) Libertarians have long looked at ocean living as the next frontier. Some wealthy men are testing the waters.

In January, I traveled to Panama to check out Ocean Builders, the startup behind “eco-forward housing solutions” called SeaPods. Here's the report, my first piece for the NYT Magazine. In print (it looks glorious!) on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/m...

The History of Tech-As-Religion - Politics and Rights Review Excerpt from Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation (MITPress)

A must-read: Greg M. Epstein ( @gregmepstein.bsky.social ) explores how technology has taken on the role of religion. In this excerpt from "Tech Agnostic" (The MIT Press), he examines belief, awe, and meaning in the digital age. Available in 3 languages

Weird that he can’t recognize that only a villain would say “cure cancer or whatever.”

Everyone give a follow to the great @sturkle.bsky.social, who juuuuust joined BkueSky! Make it feel like the olden days of November '24! Sherry's work is one of the bigger reasons I started researching tech and writing what became my book Tech Agnostic. I know many have similar stories.

If anything Trump's stories about little DJ, who has survived cancer and wants to be a police officer, or Jason Hartley who was informed he got into West Point, etc., should confirm him as a master manipulator. He expertly plays on emotion, winning praise for deeply immoral acts. What a fight ahead.

Watching Trump's speech. This may not be my most popular post, but: So much time and energy attacking him for cognitive decline or being unintelligent, wasted. He's duplicitous, immoral, and often traitorous. But cognitively OK. We must change our line of attack or be stuck with him for a long time.

Watching Trump's speech. This may not be my most popular post, but: So much time and energy attacking him for cognitive decline or being unintelligent, wasted. He's duplicitous, immoral, and often traitorous. But cognitively OK. We must change our line of attack or be stuck with him for a long time.

I'm guest preaching at a church today, on my book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation. Before the service the tech guy pointed out to the minister that some members have been DMing prayers and he needs to check them. 👨‍🍳😘

Skilled technologists are being forced out of government 18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE

New, from me: Musk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the tech capacity of government.
The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone.
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