Adam Becker

Adam Becker & Jon Evans | Book Talk: “More Everything Forever” and “Exadelic” | Stanford HAI Join HAI Policy Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn for a conversation about the potential future(s) of AI and humanity with Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, and Jon Evans, author of Exadelic and ...

This Wednesday at 12pm PT! Come to the book talk I'm hosting with @adambecker.bsky.social & @rezendi.com at @stanfordhai.bsky.social - in-person and Zoom options available! hai.stanford.edu/events/adam-...

Yeah, but my book argues that Yudkowsky is wrong 😉

H/t to @adambecker.bsky.social and his “More Everything Forever” - which I highly recommend.

Chapter 5 of my book More Everything Forever.

Also, @davekarpf.bsky.social, any suggestions?

(to be clear, Trump sucks, but also it matters what's real and what isn't, and there isn't any such story on Politico.)

This is AI. www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

omg

pictures, please, you need to record this for posterity

protest sign reading NO (MORE) BLOOD FOR OIL

when am i going to learn not to throw out my old signs

Thanks! Would love to know what you think of it. If I were to write it again, I would probably be even harsher.

Nuclear fusion has big backers in Sam Altman and Bill Gates, but it's still decades away | Fortune With big investments have come high—and maybe unrealistic—expectations.

It doesn't matter if he's sincere, because fusion ain't coming anytime soon, if ever. I wrote about this for Fortune a few months back: fortune.com/2025/05/07/n...

sam altman, a middle aged white guy in a blue suit, holds a microphone in one hand while his other makes a kind of claw-like gesture. his face looks like he's just seen a ghost

seated on a red couch, sam altman leans pensively and stares off into the distance as if processing bad news

sam altman in a black hoodie holds two cups of probably coffee, he has short spiky hair and is looking off to the side with a jackass smile

sam altman only has three looks: i see a ghost, processing bad news, and jackass

I hope you enjoy it!

Aw, thanks!

Thank you!

Hey, thanks! Glad you liked my book so much.

Thanks!

You're very welcome!

Thank you!

It's true, @davekarpf.bsky.social wrote a lovely review of my new book earlier this year. Thank you again for that, Dave!

Also, that dek. "Sauron is appearing on the scene." 🙃

And Palantir execs invested in it, because of course they did. If you put something like this in a novel, critics would call it hackneyed, and they'd be right.

"The concept resonated in Bay Area circles, where crime had become a constant topic during and after the pandemic, despite San Francisco Police Department statistics showing property crime and homicide rates declining last year." So it was inspired purely by the ultra-wealthy's paranoid delusions.

Actually reading it now and it's even worse than I thought. "Sauron — named after the sinister, all-seeing eye from “The Lord of the Rings” — to build what they envisioned as a military-grade home security system for tech elites." Ah yes, the Eye of Sauron, famously a good thing

Also, Sauron's "security" famously failed! He let two hobbits (three if you count Gollum) sneak INTO HIS HOME to destroy his most valuable possession! This is just so phenomenally stupid and awful and cringe

ok but is it compatible with Ring doorbells

Why do none of these fuckers call their companies Gandalf or Samwise

Thanks!

That is indeed what that book is about, and I suspect you'll enjoy it.

Yep.