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pinkmamba's review

4.5
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simong_ph's review

5.0
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joesquad's review

5.0
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A beautifully detailed, and at times amusing, peek into the echo chamber of the self-serving narcissistic world view of futurist tech billionaires.

snowbike's review

5.0

really critical perspective. Billionaires are the root problem.
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jhutchins's review

4.0
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A journalist reports on the religion of Silicon Valley in excruciating detail. Very informative and thorough, and uses a lot of good primary sources to back up its analysis. This book is a must read for understand todays tech sector.

One star off because the author also loves opining a lot on what the people believe and ruthlessly arguing against them. While I agree with his conclusions, I would worry that this harms the book because some people will feel the author has an agenda and won’t consider the critiques as deeply as they should. 

At any rate, the beliefs and philosophies explored in the book are so radical and out there that I think the author only needed to report on them faithfully (which they do) and let readers draw their own conclusions. That said, maybe that’s a different kind of book than what the author wanted to write.



Stellar takedown of EA, longtermism, and billionaire tech bros in general.
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jerbreck's review

5.0
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Just an absolutely masterful analysis of technobros and their anti-science beliefs.