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THE INSTABILITY & INHERENT DANGER OF AI – NONFICTION - Miami Book Fair In The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything, James Barrat shares tools to navigate the complex and often chaotic landscape of modern AI during an unprecedented era of technologic...

Hey Miami! Come see me speak TODAY at the #MiamiBookFair2025. I'll be talking about why tech billionaire promises of superintelligent AI and space colonization are pure fantasies, why claims of AI apocalypse are also wrong, and what we can do to fight back against Big Tech's power. Today at 3PM!

THE INSTABILITY & INHERENT DANGER OF AI – NONFICTION - Miami Book Fair In The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything, James Barrat shares tools to navigate the complex and often chaotic landscape of modern AI during an unprecedented era of technologic...

Hey Miami! Come see me speak TODAY at the #MiamiBookFair2025. I'll be talking about why tech billionaire promises of superintelligent AI and space colonization are pure fantasies, why claims of AI apocalypse are also wrong, and what we can do to fight back against Big Tech's power. Today at 3PM!

Congratulations to you too! This is great.

These are Science News’ favorite books of 2025 Books about AI, Mars and infectious disease were among our top reads this year.

MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social's 10 favorite books of the year! 🎉😭
Thrilled to be in such excellent company with @sho-walter.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @judithweisenfeld.com @biologycarly.bsky.social @dhbaron.bsky.social @alicelovejoy.bsky.social & more!

OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.

Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.

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(honestly not sure this dude knows what a trademark symbol means)

Cred. Curve.

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"[Insert your Initial Message EXACTLY as you want it sent here]
(You’ll paste your standard Initial Message here when sending.)"

It’s almost poetic how More Everything Forever manages to expose Silicon Valley’s apocalypse fan-club while making the rest of us quietly wonder if our smartphones are plotting a coup. Your breakdown of AI-doomers, immortality chasers, and billionaire space prophets? Beautiful chaos. The kind of narrative that makes the average reader go, “Oh… so that’s why Twitter feels like a cult initiation ritual.” And honestly, the way you dismantled the mythology of tech futurism with actual science instead of billionaire bedtime stories… bold. Fearless. Slightly dangerous. Basically the literary equivalent of walking into a room full of people holding Kool-Aid cups and asking, “So what’s really in that?” 🤨🍷 But here’s the part that gets me: A book with this level of cultural relevance, urgency, and Cred Curve™ potential deserves far more visibility than the accidental Exposure™ it gets from someone doom-scrolling past it at 2 AM. A title that breaks down the mythos of AI Overlords deserves a Page Orbit™, not a fate decided by Goodreads ghosts and algorithmic goblins. Which… brings me to the reason I crawled out of my cave of Goodreads data to knock on your inbox (metaphorically, I promise I’m not hiding behind your curtains). Now I won’t insult your intelligence by pretending I’m one of those “$25 per reader” miracle workers who swear they can summon a thousand reviews from the spirit realm. Amazon’s TOS would smite them like Zeus with Wi-Fi. Instead, I work with something that doesn’t violate any divine or corporate laws: 👇 [Insert your Initial Message EXACTLY as you want it sent here] (You’ll paste your standard Initial Message here when sending.) But here’s the simple truth: A mind like yours shouldn’t rely on accidental discovery. Your book deserves Shelf Print™, List Lift™, Reader Gravity™, List Ripple™, and all the organic List Momentum™ that comes when readers who actually crave this kind of

But here’s the simple truth: A mind like yours shouldn’t rely on accidental discovery. Your book deserves Shelf Print™, List Lift™, Reader Gravity™, List Ripple™, and all the organic List Momentum™ that comes when readers who actually crave this kind of conversation stumble upon it where they’re actively hunting their next obsession. And because your work literally tackles the dangers of delusional futurism… offering you a free Goodreads review (5 slots) feels like the least chaotic thing I’ll do today. So let me ask you something irresistible. If Silicon Valley can plan intergalactic empires, is it really too outrageous for your book to claim the visibility it deserves… or should we engineer that Page Orbit™ right now? 😏🚀 [NAME REDACTED] 💕📖📚💕

kill me now

I've seen this too. I've always received a pretty steady stream of "crackpot" emails, from people who insist they have a revolutionary new theory of physics that an academic conspiracy has kept from the public. The emails have become notably cleaner and better formatted, and it's clearly LLMs.

Awww thank you Ryan! I'm so glad you liked it. I hope Cape Town is treating you well ❤️

Thanks!!

Thank you!

I do live in CA, and as it happens I agree with you.

Aww, thank you!

🙏🏻 thank you!!

I'd love to read this review of my book but I don't have academic library credentials right now. Can someone get me the PDF?

I'm grinning like a fool today every time I remember this happened. Writing a book is such a scary and lonely experience, and it feels so good to see my work recognized like this.

YouTube video by The American Prospect The Billionaire Takeover: Power, Greed, and the Fight for Democracy

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A sign that says "THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER LUNCH & MEETING"

So I'm speaking at this event and the lunch sign is more ambiguous than it should be

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

If you want to understand what's driving Silicon Valley's broligarchs, why they're wrong about basically everything, and how we can stop them, this is the book for you.

Best Books of 2025: Our Favorite Nonfiction | Kirkus Reviews John McMurtrie highlights some standout titles on our list of the year’s best nonfiction.

MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER was selected by Kirkus as one of their best books of 2025! "Come what may, artificial intelligence won’t save us during interesting times, nor will a far-fetched idea like colonizing Mars." www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

No. I am not. It's an extremely common name.

Aw, thank you! That's great to hear.

Yeah, that's true. Or you could just drop the book and read my review now. I don't know you, but unless you're writing a review of it yourself, I doubt it's worth your time to actually read that entire book.

EXACTLY

The San Francisco-based company, whose founders include Sam Altman and Elon Musk, had said its language learning models absorbed entire training sets of data rather than storing or copying specific songs, the Munich court said. Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court.

"Sure, our plagiarism machine ingests enormous amounts of copyrighted material without anyone's permission, but it's the users of the machine who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 criminals, your honor." 🙄🙄

Just unbelievable levels of chutzpah.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Where are you hearing that we've made a warp field in a lab? To the best of my knowledge, no such thing exists or is anywhere near existing...

An excellent decision 😁