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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026

This week on the Better Offline podcast, Ed Zitron discussed the outlandish, science-fiction inspired cult beliefs that dominate AI boardrooms with Adam Becker and Cal Newport: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVS... Becker is well-placed to discuss this.

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Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport | Better Offline

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026

Like the QAA hosts, he was paying close attention to the bizarre beliefs of conspiratorialists long before the rest of us realized that no matter how preposterous their certainty about the imminent machine intelligence Singularity was, these beliefs are sincerely held by very wealthy, driven people.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026

Becker's 2025 book *More Everything Forever* is a tremendous field guide to these delusions and their profound philosophical *and* technical deficits: pluralistic.net/2025/04/22/v...

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Pluralistic: More Everything Forever (22 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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