Going Infinite

I certainly have my critiques of effective altruism.

Most famously I have my book review of Going Infinite.

I had Altruism is Incomplete back in twenty seventeen.

In twenty twenty-two I entered a criticism of the EA criticism contest into the contest itself, including my twenty-one points that attempt to summarize the EA framework, of which I strongly disagreed, and still do disagree, with thirteen, in order to argue that they want critiques but only within their frames.

I certainly have my critiques of effective altruism.

Most famously, I have my book review of Going Infinite.

I had altruism is incomplete back in twenty seventeen.

In twenty twenty two, I entered a criticism of the EA criticism contest into the contest itself, including my twenty one points that attempt to summarize the EA framework of which I strongly disagreed and still do disagree with thirteen in order to argue that they want critiques but only within their frames.

Um, there are, there were two film projects that were film or TV projects that were, uh, commissioned around FTX.

Um, and one was the five million that Apple TV paid to Michael Lewis for his book, uh, "Going Infinite," which was written before Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial, um, and, and has some virtues.

Uh, I maybe I don't emphasize that enough.

There is some content in that book that's worth it.

So I don't put it past Iglesias, I'll say this, to try and be in the room or in some other way put forward his redemption arc for Sam Bankman-Fried, his, you know, version of events where Sam didn't do something wrong.

Um, so unfortunately, even though we dodged a bullet by getting the Apple TV version, looks like, by the way, dead.

Uh, I, I mentioned it at the beginning of the stream that, uh, that Michael Lewis, the author of "Going Infinite," uh, did have a deal with Apple TV to do a similar show to this one, um, but it, uh, it didn't happen, it looks like.

At least as far as we know right now, that, that Michael Lewis version is dead.

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Silicon Valley has been weird for at least two generations.

Belief in strange or cult-like ideas, effective altruism, utilitarianism, has been as common there as psychedelic use, strange health regimens, extreme capitalism, and a kind of personality-- uh, personally, a kind of personally high-functioning public optimism that carries with it a world of safe houses, gas masks, private air fleets, armies of armed security.

As for religious belief, many of them remind me of their contemporary convicted fraudster and early anthropic investor Sam Bankman-Fried, who told author Michael Lewis in his book Going Infinite that in his rarefied Bay Area childhood, God was like a thing on TV.

God came up, but I didn't think anyone actually believed in God.

Mr. Lewis, it told you something not just about Sam, but about his upbringing that he could live for almost ten years inside the United States of America without realizing that other people believed in God.

That's very good.

When we spoke last time, it was around the Sam Bankman Freed book, Going Infinite.

Yeah.

A book I really enjoyed, but that many people had problems with.

It's a phenomenal list.

Liars Poker, The Money Culture, Pacific Rift, Losers, The New New Thing, Next, Moneyball, Coach, The Blindside, Home Game, The Big Short, Boomerang, Flash Boys, The Undoing Project, The Fifth Risk, The Premonition, Going Infinite, Who Is Government, and now...

Blockers, all books by Michael Lewis, and he joins me now.

Michael, thank you for coming back to the program.

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Silicon Valley has been weird for at least two generations.

Belief in strange or cult-like ideas, effective altruism, utilitarianism, has been as common there as psychedelic use, strange health regimens, extreme capitalism, and a kind of personality, a personally, a kind of personally high-functioning public optimism that carries with it a world of safe houses, gas masks, private air fleets, armies of armed security.

As for religious belief, many of them remind me of their contemporary convicted fraudster and early anthropic investor Sam Bankman Freed, who told author Michael Lewis in his book Going Infinite that in his rarefied Bay Area childhood, God was like a thing on TV.

God came up, but I didn't think anyone actually believed in God.

Mr. Lewis, it told you something not just about Sam, but about his upbringing that he could live for almost 10 years inside the United States of America without realizing that other people believed in God.