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Once more unto the breach

Roose does a very nice job signaling in the second paragraph what sort of book this will be. He decided to write it the night after partying with ketamine-snorting effective accelerationists. He isn’t e/acc himself, but he hangs with that crowd and accepts their premises as newsworthy,

That is a very distinct type of book. I expect it’ll tell me things about Bay-area AI circles that I don’t already know (because I’m not there, and I don’t run in those circles). I also expect it’ll project their confidence while leaving it unchallenged, in ways that frittata the hell out of me.

Page 5. This is also the type of book that takes Amanda Askell completely seriously. I am not sure I can do that, personally. But I will try my best. (IYKYK)

(Still page 5) “Today, it’s clear not only that AGI is possible but also that, in some sense, the hard part is already done.” 🤯😡 Okay, so the problem for me here is that my book pub date is 2.5 months from now. And the thesis of my book is (basically) “no it fucking is not. See: history.”

January 2027: put my book and Kevin Roose’s book in a steel cage. Let them fight.

(I swear this isn’t going to be a hype thread for my own book. But, also, here’s the preorder link): bookshop.org/p/books/vapo...