How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?
I should have noticed when tech leaders started talking about attaining immortality and resettling on Mars. It’s easy to ignore crackpots like that, or pity them—because they live in delusion and still end up dead here on planet Earth.
But previously it was some looney, a cult believer, or Ted Williams’ kids. Now it’s the billionaires who run the world who have the craziest schemes.
And immortality is just a start. Because tech titans are now acting as philosophers, and they have bizarre theories about everything. Meanwhile they are buying up bunkers to survive the apocalypse.
Is this some cosmic joke played by the Simulation? When I see names like Bankman and Altman as major characters in the dystopia, I feel I’m already living inside some bad 1950s sci-fi story.
I’m old enough to remember a charming individual named Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, who gave himself a new identity—at the onset of middle age, he started calling himself FM-2030.
