Adam Becker: recommendation

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…Hi. I'm Adam Becker. I'm an astrophysicist and journalist and I'm the author of 2 books. Most recently, I've written More Everything Forever which is about the horrible ideas that tech billionaires have about the future and why they don't work. And my 1st book was called What is Real? And it's about the sordid untold history of quantum physics. I'm also the host of the podcast Dreaming Against the Machine where we try to think about what a better future could look like outside of the grip of the tech industry. And you should listen to this episode of Machine Learning Street Talk because Tim and I have a great conversation about why some of the most powerful people in the world are wrong about so many things. By the way, many folks in my Discord really loved your previous book, by the way, so quite a few people said that. Well, that makes me really happy. I I mean, you know, I hope I'll probably write, you know, more books in the future, but the the 1st book's always special. Awesome. Awesome. Right. Here we go. Adam Becker, it's a it's a huge honor to have you on MLST. Welcome. Thanks for having me, Tim. It's a pleasure to be here. So I I found I found out about you when I read an article on The Atlantic that you wrote last year, and, I think it was called the the useful idiots of doomsaying.…

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