Book review criticizes three books by American tech elites as "localism"
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A book review categorizes three books by American tech elites as "localism": Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's "Abundance," Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska's "The Technological Republic," and Eliezer Yudkowsky's "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies." The review argues that these three books represent technocratic, AI industry, and doomsday perspectives respectively, and together reflect the limitations of American tech elites. The report does not provide the specific arguments of the review's author, nor does it state whether this criticism received any response.
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A review essay of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance, Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska's The Technological Republic, and Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares's If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, arguing that despite differing styles the three books converge on a technocratic fusion of Silicon Valley and the US state. The author contends they want the benefits of Chinese state capitalism without its party-form, ignore the material and environmental costs of AI, and that AI's real danger is cultural stagnation rather than superintelligence.
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